π¨Out tomorrow!π¨
Happy Monday book friends! Thank you Simon audio for the ALC! Appreciate it. The Wasp Tarp by Mark Edwards is out tomorrow Sept. 16. This is one you’ll definitely want to pick up.
A group of old friends gather for a posh dinner party that quickly goes horribly wrong. They’re held hostage and forced to reveal their darkest secrets or die. Here’s the summary from the publisher:
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing.
But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one-by-one.
It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.
This story was chock full of secrets and lies - both from the past and the present. The hostage takers are looking for a very specific piece of information but won’t give any clues as to what it could possibly be. That only ramps up the suspense and endangers everyone. I really liked the locked room mystery of this. The group can’t flee and can’t call for help. Their only hope is that one of them offers up the information before they all die. The story’s dual timeline works really well revealing all the characters secrets and motivations. There were so many twists and turns that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. The narration by John Hopkins and Anna Burnett is fantastic. Their performances really convey all the tension and terror. I’ll certainly be recommending this twisty thriller a lot this fall. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What are you reading, listening to, or watching this week? I finished a booked and an audiobook over the weekend. I have to decide what I’m reading next.
About the Author
Mark Edwards is the bestselling author and coauthor of over twenty books, including those he has written with Louise Voss. His latest thriller is The Wasp Trap. Originally from Hastings in East Sussex, Mark now lives in Wolverhampton, UK, with his wife, their children, three cats, and a golden retriever. Find him at MarkEdwardsAuthor.com
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