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“I laughed, I gasped, and said ‘I do’ to this chilling romp sparkling with humor, Prosecco, and murder.”—Julia Seales, bestselling author of A Most Agreeable Murder
Who will be left standing when the bouquet is thrown?
Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah, and Tansy have been best friends since grade school. They wonder if that was the last time they all actually liked each other. As adults, their lives have splintered. Tansy runs a vegan café and is preparing for a shotgun marriage to awful Ivan. Farah is engaged and is fast becoming a complete bridezilla. Dominica is a successful divorce attorney with no time for anything but work. Lauren has had a total “failure to launch” in her career and love life, consumed by a man who has spent years stringing her along. Saskia has married into wealth and a different circle of friends in a fancy part of London. Some days it seems that the only thing holding the group together is an event that happened in their youth twenty years ago—an incident they’ve all sworn to keep secret in order to protect one another.
When the group is reunited at Tansy’s bachelorette-cum-wellness-retreat weekend, it doesn’t take long for old grudges to surface. Then the bride-to-be chokes to death on a poisoned drink, and all of the bridesmaids are suspects.
Kate Weston explores the complexities of female friendship in this searingly funny, page-turning thriller. One of these bridesmaids may be a killer, and the group had better watch their sash-covered backs, because your oldest friends aren’t always your closest. . . .
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April 15, 2024
A death at a bachelorette party makes a group of childhood friends question what they know in this adult debut. Tansy, Lauren, Farah, Saskia, and Dominica have been friends since elementary school. Thick as thieves since Dominica saved the rest from a bully on the playground, they are now in their mid-30s and in very different places in life: Saskia married rich and lords it over the others. Dominica is a hotshot divorce lawyer, always on her phone. Lauren makes do at a makeup company while mooning over her ex-boyfriend (and Farah's brother), Joss. Farah's long-awaited wedding is coming up but has been overshadowed by Tansy's last-minute whirlwind marriage to a man she barely knows. At Tansy's bachelorette party, emotions are simmering when what seems to be a tragic accident leaves one of them dead. But as the accident starts looking like murder and the friends try to carry on with Farah's wedding preparations, each begins to wonder if one of them may be more than she seems. The book is full of twists and turns, swiftly pushing forward while dropping in short flashbacks of the girls' growing-up years to flesh out their relationships, and it's hard not to want to know exactly what's going on. It can be hard to follow, however, as the point of view changes between paragraphs, sometimes within the same sentence. Though the characters are drawn with real depth, they spend their time showing their disgust with each other while telling the reader how close they are. The only thing that seems to connect them is the duration of their relationships, not the quality. Their friendship can be hard to believe. An interesting but hard-to-follow thriller.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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April 15, 2024
Weston makes her adult debut with a farcical send-up of the wedding industry. Five friends, presented through an omniscient point of view, gather at the hen do (bachelorette party) for Tansy. She's getting married after just three months of dating her fianc�, even though he's been cheating on her the whole time. Farah is planning her own wedding and is determined to make it happen at all costs. But Tansy's party is cut short when she dies. Her cup is poisoned by peaches, which she is allergic to. The remaining friends, Dominica, Saskia, Farah, and Lauren, begin searching for answers. The women are bound by a secret in their shared past, and each woman is concealing her own guilt. But as the novel continues, each of their transgressions is revealed, and more bodies pile up. Will Farah make it to her wedding, or will it be ruined by lies and murder? Weston, a former comedian, brings the outrageous laughs to this juicy story, which will appeal to readers of So Happy for You (2022), by Celia Laskey.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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