GENRE: Fiction/Suspense
SETTING: Cornwall, England
MY GRADE: B-
SYNOPSIS: The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin - the palatial ocean-view home belonging to Matt's old friend Lucas Jarrett - it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl's pale, doll-like body bobbing listlessly toward the rocky shore.
Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas's request to honor an anniversary they would do anything to forget.
But what Lucas has in store for his guests is nothing like a candlelight vigil. Someone close remembers more from that night than they'll admit to, and Lucas has devised a little game for them all to make them tell the truth.
At least Jemma knows that she and Matt weren't involved in what happened to that young woman... or were they? Before you play a game with death, make sure you can pay the price...
MY THOUGHTS: This is a rerelease of a book that was first released this April under the title The Murder Game. The synopsis makes this sound so much more interesting and suspenseful than it actually was. I though Lucas was going to dole out punishment to everyone until the culprit was revealed but that didn't happen. It was interesting enough and held my interest the whole way through... until the end. I couldn't wait to find out who was responsible for several things that were going on but the ending was a convoluted disappointment. Too much went on in such a small time frame. The stuff involving Matt and Isobel at the end was beyond ridiculous. I didn't like the twist at the very end either. I've read a couple reviews where people said they saw the ending coming but I didn't predict any of it except I'd guessed the traumatic event that happened in Alex's past.
I don't know anything about British law enforcement but the two officers in here, Stephanie and Gus, didn't seem professional with the way they handled things. They kind of spoke to the guests like they were their friends rather than suspects. I couldn't have cared less about their love story and have no idea why the author thought we needed that considering all that was going on already.
I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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