{"id":226,"date":"2022-08-25T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2022-08-25T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:50:05","slug":"the-party-at-no-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"The Party at No. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3508219.Kerry_Wilkinson\">Kerry Wilkinson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah smiles at her guests. In this grand house rented specially for the evening, everyone admires the sparkling chandelier and raises a glass to say goodbye before Hannah moves away from this little town for good. But the next day, one of them lies cold and lifeless in their bed\u2026<br><br>The day of her leaving party, Hannah Ford is nervous. With so many secrets and lies over the years between her friends, and arguments between her sisters, is it really a good idea to gather everyone together? But her mother insists that, after Hannah\u2019s divorce and job struggles, she deserves a send-off to remember. So they all plaster on fake smiles and put aside their rifts for an evening of celebrations.<br><br>In the morning, one of the guests is found dead.<br><br>Hannah is desperate to tell the police. But every single guest has something to hide, or someone to protect. The group insists: they will deal with this themselves.<br><br>After all, it must have been an accident. Perhaps too much wine, on a night where emotions were running high.<br><br>But what if it wasn\u2019t?<br><br>And what if this was just the first victim?<br><br>An absolutely unputdownable thriller that won\u2019t let you sleep until you\u2019ve reached the final page! Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, The Hunting Party and Shari Lapena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First time reading this author. Started off a bit slow but I stayed with it, it picked up the pace pretty quick and soon I was unable to put it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would we want a mum like Hannah&#8217;s, someone who&#8217;ll do anything at all to protect her children. We mothers will do almost anything for our children but surely there is a fine line. Hannah&#8217;s mother stepped over that line and in doing so put pressure on everyone around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never saw the final twist coming and that floored me, it was also quite sad, particularly as the character was an innocent in it all.. or so we thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Wilkinson About: Hannah smiles at her guests. In this grand house rented specially for the evening, everyone admires the sparkling chandelier and raises a glass to say goodbye before Hannah moves away from this little town for good. But the next day, one of them lies cold and lifeless in their bed\u2026 The day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}