This was absolutely unputdownable!  Well written, with fantastic character development, which had me needing to finish it, but praying for the book not to end!  Mind-blowing good!  Lots of fun twisty turns, thrills, chills, and shocks!  A must read for Sandie Jones’ fans, thriller fans, or those looking for a new genre to try out!  Highly., highly, highly recommend!  Must warn, you will n want to finish once you start, so clear your schedules and do not start at bed time!  Can’t wait for Sandie Jones’ next book!  

Will buzz around and use low Amazon reviewer number!

Date reviewed/posted: March 20, 2021
Publication date: August 17th, 2021

When life for the entire galaxy and planet has turned on its end, you are continuing to #maskup and #lockdown to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #secondwave ( #thirdwave ?) is upon us, superspeed readers like me can read 300+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

They went away as friends
They came back as suspects . . .

Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée.

To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend getaway together in Portugal.

It’s a chance to relax and get to know Ali a little better perhaps. A newcomer to their group, she seems perfectly nice and Will seems happy after years of bad choices. But Ali is hiding more than one secret . . .

By the end of the weekend, there’ll be one dead body and five people with guilty consciences wondering if they really know each other so well after all. Because one of them has to be the killer . . .

OOOOOOOH, I love me some Sandi Jones!  Remniscent of "Ten Little Indians/And Then There were None"  (Agatha Christie) or "One by One", (Ruth Ware) this is a great foray into friendship and wondering who is the killer ... and are you safe from them???  The characters were interesting and the storyline epic- I kept finding myself holding my breath wondering what was going to happen next.  I will highly recommend this book to patrons, friends, family and book clubs...and what an ending!

Take this book to the beach (or your back yard, porch or balcony) and enjoy it  - just wear a tonne of SPF110 as you will lose track of time as you read this. - If we are in the 5th or 6th wave/mutation of COVID19 by then, stay inside: no tan is worth dying for.

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I simply adore emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/snowflakes / literally-like-overusers etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it   🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️

I will admit the ending was a bit of a surprise but more of a surprise was the fact that I made it through to the ending. In my opinion it was a very slow-moving book and it was kind of difficult to even finish reading. It just never really caught my attention and Drew me into the story

This is a great book about a group of friends who goes on vacation.  The central controversy on the book is a newcomer.  However with spills out among the group is simmering tensions that lead to a unforeseen conclusion.  I love books like this and I’m a big fan of the author. I highly recommend this book.

When Rachel and Noah met in college, they thought they might have a future together, but twenty years later, Rachel is married to Jack and Noah is married to Paige. Now with Jack’s bother getting married to Ali, the three couples head out for Portugal for the wedding. Rachel and Paige are both uncomfortable around the volatile Ali, but while Rachel tries to get to know her for her brother’s sake, Paige is completely put off. Over the course of the weekend, jealousy, secrets and guilt threaten to tear apart marriages and friendships, and may even cost someone their life