I’m not particularly interested in stories of people being evil just because they can. When it comes to mysteries and thrillers, there has to be more than just the devious act itself. While this group of friends seems like they would have no troubles in the world, we soon learn there’s lots of hostility and untold resentments between them. The setting is quite vivid and descriptive but attention never strays from focus on the characters themselves. Each one has plenty of secrets and there’s specific reasons why those characters are the focus of the book.
While there are many characters in this one, the story is told from the perspectives of three friends, the lodge manager and the caretaker. Now, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands. The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire and reminiscences about the past. You don’t find out who it is until the end of the novel but there are hints along the way, along with plenty of curveballs to throw off your inner detective.Ī group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students 10 years ago.
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