Thanks to Atria for the eARC.
If you like a good locked room mystery on a remote coastline, might I recommend this one. A group of friends in their 40s decided to camp together for a weekend, and things go very wrong. Richell was a master here at creating suspense and leaving the reader wanting more. I did not figure things out, and was shocked by the ending. There are quite a few people to keep track of in the beginning but as time goes on, it was easy to remember which person went with what family. There is a lot of history between these characters and it was interesting to see how cracks start to form. If you're looking for a perfect rainy atmosphere read, this one will fit the bill.

This was a delightful thriller, and although the “bad guy” was fairly expected, there were enough surprises along the way to keep me invested, I was concerned at the start of this read that I would struggle to keep the expansive cast straight, but the author did a great job helping the reader (me!) along. I particularly enjoyed the multiple timelines as well as multi-POV. Overall, a solid 4 star thriller.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was a fast paced thriller that I enjoyed. I liked the multiple POVs and how it included some of the kids and not just the adults. I enjoyed being in the heads of all these different characters and the small time jump around from when the police showed up to the beginning of the weekend. This is a good read for a cold and stormy winter night!

As much as I love a locked room book, I found The Search Party fell flat. I did enjoy the multiple POVs and the different timelines but for the most part I found it a little too repetitive and easy to guess the villain. I found there were too many unnecessary characters with subplots. However, I did think Richell managed to save the thriller with the ending which was satisfying. As well, I loved the glamping Cornwall setting and I appreciated some of her red herrings and twists. Overall this was just a standard middle of the road read for me so I give it a 3 out of 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for this eARC that will be released Jan 16 2024.

Glamping? What a fancy term. Who would have thought of something like that?

Overall, I enjoyed this book. Multiple POVs, which I always enjoyed, and multiple timelines.
Suspenseful and kept me interested from beginning to end.

Thank you Atria Books and Netgalley for the free advanced book, in exchange for an honest review.

This was the first book I’ve read by Hannah Richell and it did not disappoint! The book is about a group of friends (who met in college) getting their families together for a glamping weekend which goes wrong. The relationship dynamics were illustrated perfectly from the children to the adults and the way they all interacted with one another. I was definitely able to connect with the characters which is really important for me to get into a book. I did enjoy that the story was told a little at a time from the perspectives of different characters to get the big picture. I did predict who the “bad guy” was, but it didn’t take away from the story in any way. I liked that there were several story lines going on at the same time because it helped draw me into the story even more. The were some cliché bits, but it didn’t take away from the story too terribly much. I can’t wait to dive into some of the author’s other books!

Thanks to Atria Books for granting access to the ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

I have to admit that I guessed what was going on pretty early on in the book, but even though I was pretty sure I was right, it didn't diminish from the suspense and enjoyment of the story. I enjoyed the multiple perspectives in the story telling and how the story moved around in time to reveal different parts of the story piece by piece. The setting was perfect for the story and for building tension. The majority of the characters were flawed in one way or another, yet still sympathetic. I flew through this one and found it engaging, interesting, and suspenseful. Good thriller!

Thank you to Atria and NetGalley for the opportunity to read The Search Party early.

This book was definitely a good read. I loved how Hannah built up the suspense, doubt & questions in this book, and even had my heart racing for the whole second half of the book! The book was well written & the characters were well developed.

If you enjoy Lucy Foley & Ruth Ware, I'd say you should look into reading this book by Hannah Richell! I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Thank you to Atria Books & NetGalley for an ARC of this book, in exchange for my honest opinion.

I finished this book in just a couple sittings because I continued to tell myself one more chapter, unable to put it down.

Max and Annie left behind their life in London to move out to the wilderness with their son Kip, to open up a glampground. This thriller starts off with a group of university friends getting together with their families at Max and Annie’s new Glamping site on the coast of Cornwall.. Coming for the weekend are Dom and his wife Tonya, and their three kids. Suze and Jim and their three kids. And lastly Kira and her boyfriend Fred, along with their new baby girl. But almost immediately on arrival tensions are thick, kids aren’t getting along, there is no cell service, secrets are flying, and everyone is arguing. Everyone awakes the next day hoping for a calm day, but it’s anything but that. Phoebe, who is Tonya and Dom’s youngest daughter is missing in the woods, just as a terrible storm is moving in. Will they all be able to set their differences aside to work together to find Phoebe? And just when you think nothing else can go wrong on this weekend… think again. The ending is wrapped up perfectly in a bow with all your questions answered.

Tensions are high, and the drama doesn’t ever end. This book is told in alternating points of view between all the friends, some of their children, and the police who are navigating the tragedies that occur that weekend. I was nervous that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with all the families and also keep all of the characters straight, but it was very easy to keep up with. I really enjoyed this thriller, and look forward to reading more by this author. If you’re looking for an intense and fast paced thriller, give this one a read! (would like to add that there should be a trigger warning for child abuse).

This book is a crazy ride! In a good way! The prologue was so scintillating that I knew I’d like it right away! I immediately wanted to find out who the villain was and see if I was right.

The Search Party is so much more than someone goes missing story. The dynamics between the characters and their families has as much to do with why things happened, as does the individual relationships between the MC’s.

After the epilogue, Hannah Richell cleverly begins the story by introducing each character with their own chapters. Chapters also alternate between then and now. I liked that there is a list of the characters and a map of the campground at the beginning. It helped me to “see” how everything played out.

As things moved along, I keep thinking I knew the culprit was only to be blindsided with a sneaky twist! This kept happening throughout the whole story! All the way to the end. I was shocked at the ending!

It was a really entertaining, can’t put down, suspense novel! Additionally, I liked that I felt like I knew the characters and went through what they went through.

I loved this book! I will definitely recommend it. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

i unfortunately didn’t care for this book. i don’t think it’s bad at all, but there were too many characters, and the story was a little too dragged out for me. it just wasn’t holding my interest. i actually read about half of this, then skipped to the end to see what happened. it felt as if i hadn’t skipped anything at all because there was pretty much a whole explanation for what happened. i wasn’t that surprised by the reveals, and i wasn’t connecting to the characters. however, i can see some other people really enjoying this book. thank you to the publisher for the ARC!

3.5 stars. A group of old college friends, along with their significant others and children, reunites on a glamping holiday, where things go dreadfully wrong. I always get a sinking feeling when I open a new book to a long list of characters. I strongly believe that your plot is too complicated if you feel you need to include a character list. I never refer to character lists and muddle through as best as I can without looking at them. There were a lot of good things happening in this novel, but as the list led me to believe, there were just too many characters. I think some of the characters and sub-plots could have been eliminated and this would have been a much tauter, more exciting read. I enjoyed the Cornwall setting, and I don't mind unlikable characters in a thriller (unlike in other genres). The book moves fluidly between before and after the traumatic events, and Richell did a good job of not making the time shifts too confusing. Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for a digital review copy.

Solid destination thriller centered around college friends, mostly couples and their kids, "glamping" for the weekend when one of the couples opens a new wilderness retreat. Great pacing and lots of drama. Interesting twist at the end. Definitely want to read Hannah Richell's backlist now.

A friends’ weekend reunion at a remote campsite turns deadly when someone goes missing. Secrets are revealed as it flashes back and forth between the present with police investigating and the past.

I liked this one, but wasn’t wowed by it. I think it took a little bit to get into and then it did pick up some. I do wish there had been more twists and turns. There definitely was a bigger one toward the end, but I think suspense could have been built up more. At times, it felt more like a drama than a thriller.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of The Search Party.

I've never read this author before so I was excited my request was approved.

The writing is good, and I like the premise but there's nothing original about the characters and plot.

A group of old friends get together with their family, friends who share secrets, drama, and (not surprisingly) don't particularly like each other after so much time has passed.

There's the stereotypical cliches of adultering, infidelity, a character who is a Simon Cowell wannabe with a new, much younger second wife, and the young, adopted son of the family organizing the glamping trip who has behavioral issues.

.Nearly everyone is a red herring, and the author purposely keeps readers hanging as to what happened when the police are called in.

Ii didn't like anyone, except for Fred, I think because he seems to be the most genuine person in the whole group because he doesn't belong in the group.

I guessed some of the twists, which was easy to figure out because I read a lot of these books in this genre.

But, I did like how the author tied up all the loose ends and how the weekend forced all the adults behaving badly to reassess their priorities and what is more important: family.

Highly atmospheric and filled with lots of juicy drama! Annie and Max Kingsley have left big city life and decided to set up a “glamping” experience in the Cornwall wilderness. Before officially opening, they invite three old friends, along with their families, to join them for a mini reunion and a trial run. But an unexpected storm rolls in, isolating them from immediate help. One of the party goes missing and everyone is a suspect of foul play. This devastating weekend trip will cause tensions to build, secrets to be revealed, and friendships to be strained to the breaking point. Thank you Netgalley, Atria Books and the author for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This book will be available for purchase on January 16, 2024

I always had questions about large friend groups who still hang out after one or more decades. Are you still the same people from those university days? Are you telling me that you were not faking, putting masks on to be loved, and expected people did the same in your 20s? Are you telling me that you think none of your views differ now that you are in your 40s? Sure, you can still be friends, but as close as you were in your 20s? You get bored of your partners and your marriages fail even if you married those from your friends group. Like, come on!

Put anyone in a place where they are away from gifts of modern life and especially in a bad weather, they are going to lose it. When you try to bring 4 families together in such place, it will be a disaster. The things people could say and do under stress without their acceptable masks on can easily turn any gathering into a day to remember. These university friends were in for this kind of treat!

It was a good example of whodunnit sprinkled with not so obvious hints all along. I appreciated the way it kept you wondering what now. You didn't exactly know who was in the hospital, if whispers were about one character or the other, and most importantly what really happened. This is definitely a good book to read on a rainy day ;)

"A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.

Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for a dry run ahead of their opening, they invite three old university friends and their families for a long-needed reunion. But the festivities soon go awry as tensions arise between the children (and subsequently their parents), explosive secrets come to light, and a sudden storm moves in, cutting them off from help as one in the group disappears.

Moving between the police investigation, a hospital room, and the catastrophic weekend, The Search Party is a propulsive and twisty destination thriller about the tenuous bonds of friendship and the lengths parents will go to protect their children - perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley."

This is why I don't go glamping.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for the copy of The Search Party by Hannah Richell. I loved the premise of this book! The timelines were really confusing and frustrating. To keep jumping to the police investigation without even knowing what had happened was annoying and made it hard to have any context for the story. There were so many characters I had to keep going back to the cast page to see how old the kid was and who they were related to, and most of them were incidental to the story. Maybe I’m just a lazy reader, but having to refer to a ‘cast’ list is too much work for me. The stories weren’t very compelling and I didn’t understand what the main plot was. This wasn’t a bad book, but not great. I lost interest near the end because there were so many stories to keep track of. I think if you love a twisty end, you will love this book!