A few friends, a rented cabin, cheap alcohol, some ill-advised decisions, many some regrets. A house party with your friends in high school is a dumb idea, but it’s hardly unheard of. But when Amy agrees to go a Memorial Day party, she has no idea she will somehow escape the unexpected fate of her classmates.
Insulted by their bullying of her, she decides to walk out of the first and hitch a ride home. Shortly after she leaves, the cabin explodes. She is the only survivor of the incident, making her a suspect among the parents and friends of her classmates. Even the ones who don’t think she planted the bomb think she must know much more than she has shared with authorities.
Now it’s twenty years later. Amy is an FBI agent, and someone has invited her and family members connected to that night to a reunion that will be covered by journalist. Amy has no interest in reliving that night, but as a grown woman and a law enforcement agent, she decides to set aside her sentiment and see if she can discover any clues to the still-unsolved murder.
No sooner does the group assemble than a massive storm causes mudslides that washout the road and endanger the structure of the cabin. Then guests start disappearing. Like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, everyone begins to wonder if the murderer has returned? Or perhaps someone is out for revenge from that night twenty years ago.
…the building she had arrived at, a huge, wood-shingled structure sprawling across a ledge that looked to be carved in the mountain. It reminded her of the kind of national park lodges they built in the 1900s, when no one visited the wilderness without a butler. ~Loc 197
It’s a better than average thriller, with a smart protagonist and a cracking mystery. There are psychological complications, a dusting of clues, well-drawn characters and a quickly moving plot.
My thanks to Poisoned Pen Press for the review copy. Read via NetGalley.
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press (May 14, 2024)
Language: English
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1728292921