by Lucy Foley
The bride The plus one The best man The wedding planner The bridesmaid
The body.
Before I started reading The Guest List I saw a lot of people making references to Agatha Christie and classic whodunnits, so I was expecting more of a locked room style murder mystery with everyone being summoned for the big reveal at the end. For me, it was actually more comparable to Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies. The story flipped backwards and forwards in time to before and after the murder, giving hints at what had happened or what was about to happen and gradually brought out more of the back story of each of the characters. The most interesting thing for me was the fact that the identity of the murder victim wasn’t revealed until quite late in the book which meant that I was trying to guess who the killer was but at the same time, trying to guess who was killed!
Without giving away too much of the plot, towards the end of the book, I did start thinking that there were maybe too many coincidences, and that a some of the events were a bit far-fetched. Having said that, my favourite film of all time is ‘Clue’, (a black comedy murder mystery) and I realised that not all crime and mystery books have to be dark and disturbing. This was a really fun book to read, a different approach to the genre and as soon as I started to think of it like that I was hooked. Lucy Foley’s previous book - The Hunting Party will be going straight to the top of my TBR list!
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