By Clare Mackintosh
August 2022
ISBN: 9781728250960 (ISBN10: 172825096X)
About:
On New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests.His lakeside holiday homes are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. This will be the party to end all parties.But not everyone is there to celebrate. By midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year’s Day, DC Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects.The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbours, friends and family – and Ffion has her own secrets to protect.With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn’t who wanted Rhys dead . . . but who finally killed him.In a village with this many secrets, a murder is just the beginning.
Review:
This is the start of a new series of books with the character DC Ffion Morgan.
I was struggling to get into this but by the end of part one, the surprise revaluation I didn’t see coming made the story pick up and suddenly the book had my full attention, it’s not however the most gripping read.
There were a couple of characters who had a score from their pasts to settle with the murdered character but they never actually moved forward on it leaving me wondering how their paths crossed and what the score they needed to settle was.
The end was an anticlimax, knowing who the murderer really was and how they got away with it is never revealed. It also never let’s the reader know what happened to the person who actually gets sent down for the murder.
I’ve read Clare Mackintosh books before and thoroughly enjoyed them, but this one didn’t quite live up to expectations, however I will be looking out for further DC Ffion Morgan novels.
