Out tomorrow May 20th! Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the advanced listener copy. I appreciate it!
The rich family of luxury fashion brand gathers at their Safari retreat to celebrate a wedding. The family’s matriarch is set to marry a much younger man when she is killed the night before the nuptials. Here’s the summary from the publisher:
Odelia Babel, CEO of a sustainable fashion empire, is about to marry for the second time—to a man twenty-five years her junior. Asher Bach is the thirty-something designer of Odelia’s luxury clothing line, the darling of every high-fashion journalist, and madly in love with Odelia.
Eager to celebrate her nuptials with her nearest and dearest, Odelia invites her adult children, her daughter-in-law, her grandchild, and her best friend/assistant to an all-expenses-paid luxury safari at Leopard Sands in South Africa, the Babel family’s favorite vacation spot. In its soil, they have deep roots—and even deeper secrets.
It seems like the perfect trip, but not everyone is thrilled for the happy couple. Amid game drives in the bush and bonfires beneath the desert stars, tensions among the family threaten to boil over. And then, the morning after a big fight with her son Sam—and hours before the wedding—Odelia is found murdered. Sam is immediately the prime suspect, but he claims he has an ironclad alibi—he was with his twin sister, Bailey. Only Bailey is nowhere to be found…
As the heat roils, desperate poachers and ferocious animals lurk, and dark motives fester, it becomes clear that whoever killed Odelia isn’t quite finished yet, and the rest of the Babel family is their prey.
This is all about the family drama! A controlling mother. Resentment for her much younger fiancΓ©. Disagreements about the direction the family company should go. Long buried secrets, lies, and revenge. There was enough drama to keep me distracted from figuring out whodunnit until the very end. The story is told from multiple POV and I was really glad the audiobook has a very talented full cast of narrators. This really helped me keep track of the different characters.
This was an entertaining listen for me. I liked the exotic location and that it featured a safari. Definitely pick this one up if you love mysteries with a ton of family angst and melodrama.
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About the Author
Jaclyn Goldis is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and NYU School of Law. She practiced estate planning law at a large Chicago firm for seven years before leaving her job to travel the world and write novels. After culling her possessions into only what would fit in a backpack, she traveled for over a year until settling in Tel Aviv, where she can often be found writing from cafΓ©s near the beach. She is the author of The Chateau, The Main Character, and The Safari.
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