Lucy Foley‘s “The Guest List” is a taut thriller which keeps the readers guessing until the very end. With a group of guests assembled at a high profile wedding in a remote island, the proceedings take a wild turn when a waitress suspects she has seen a body along the shoreline.
The novel shifts back and forth in time to cover the events that happened on the day before the wedding and on the wedding day. This non-linear writing is a great strength to the novel despite being abrupt at certain places. The events unfold before us from each character’s perspective and each character has a backstory which is seamlessly interwoven into the plot.
We have the formulaic murder mysteries which start with the murder victim and build up to the revelation of the murderer and the motive in the climax. This novel stands apart and keeps the victim as well under wraps and leaves the readers in intriguing suspense.
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