“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie.... The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” (Alex Michaelides, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Patient)

"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics.... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” (New York Times Book Review)

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times best-selling author of The Hunting Party.

The bride - the plus one - the best man - the wedding planner - the bridesmaid - the body.

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

Listening Length

10 hours and 22 minutes
Author

Lucy Foley
Narrator

Jot Davies, see all
Audible release date

June 2, 2020
Language

English
Publisher

HarperAudio
ASIN

B07WSFQHSX
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
See all details

Read & Listen

Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with Whispersync for Voice.
Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $12.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Your audiobook is waiting!

Click above for unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now).
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.

Learn more about membership

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

List Price: $21.42

You Save: $2.68 (13%)

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

People who viewed this also viewed

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

The Paris Apartment: A Novel
Lucy Foley
37,812
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
Laura Dave
122,657
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Hunting Party: A Novel
Lucy Foley
21,096
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
24,715
in Psychological Thrillers

Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
153,228
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial

People who bought this also bought

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid
150,349
in Family Life Fiction

Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Verity
Colleen Hoover
212,786
in Suspense

Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Everything We Didn't Say: A Novel
Nicole Baart
1,315
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
32,930
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Midnight Library: A Novel
Matt Haig
211,982
in Time Travel Science Fiction

Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial

Related to this topic

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

The Guilt Trip: A Novel
Sandie Jones
2,888
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Road Trip
Beth O'Leary
10,488
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Party Crasher: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella
8,114
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
A Sky Painted Gold
Laura Wood
290
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Just Last Night: A Novel
Mhairi McFarlane
2,005
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial

Product details

Listening Length	10 hours and 22 minutes
Author	Lucy Foley
Narrator	Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	June 02, 2020
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07WSFQHSX
Best Sellers Rank	#249 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #8 in Crime Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #20 in Psychological Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #35 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals)

Customer reviews

4.2 out of 5

75,982 global ratings

5 star		48%
4 star		32%
3 star		15%
2 star		4%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2023

Verified Purchase

Con esta historia me enganchó para leer dos libros más de ella, lamentablemente todos sus libros se parecen y sus finales son predecibles y no tan atragantes. Empiezas bien la historia pero conforme se va acabando te llevas muchas decepciones. Pero como stand-alone esta bien. Entretenido

Helpful

Translate review to English

Heidi

It was okay

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2023

Verified Purchase

The book was a fairly good mystery. It felt a bit anticlimactic at the very end. But I still enjoyed the story getting there. I'll probably still read more from Lucy Foley, but it won't be at the top of my list.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Rob V

A moody, atmospheric page turner with twists and secrets galore

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2022

Verified Purchase

The atmosphere of this novel is one of its most notable strengths. The weather and setting add to the sense of impending doom that permeates the entire story, and as the storm outside builds up, and the many secrets each character holds slowly surface, the tension mounts and you want to keep reading after each chapter seems to end in a mini cliffhanger. If life didn't get in the way and I could live my dream of having several days (who am I kidding, I'd want more than that, but we'll be slightly realistic and stick with days) with nothing to do but read all the books I've had piling up, I would have read this one in one sitting. Each chapter is its own separate thread, at least at first, so it can also be a good book to read one little bit at a time, but I suspect other readers, like myself, will eventually want to just blast through the rest of it at some point.

The point of view of the novel switches between several characters throughout, but they're all distinct enough that it doesn't get confusing. I would also encourage readers to pay attention to the seemingly throw away details, because quite a few of them pop up later, and end up being pretty important. There are definitely some twists and turns towards the end, some of which I saw coming, but several of which I definitely didn't, and it winds up to a satisfying conclusion, even though there are a few plot holes left along the way. Sure, you might have to suspend your disbelief a bit for a few of them, but in the end I think it's more than worth it. Normally I wouldn't care about a bunch of rich people going to a wedding, and I'm honestly not much of one for murder mysteries, but I like how you don't even know who the victim is for most of the novel, so you can't get a bead on who the killer might be. The mounting tension sometimes feels akin to watching the moments before a train wreck. You're uncomfortable because you know what's about to happen will be ugly, but you can't quite turn away. Sure, some of the characters deserve their fates, and that's part of the satisfying conclusion, but the sense of impending doom you'll feel while reading the novel will probably keep you up at night like it did for me.

19 people found this helpful

Helpful

Jessica

Love Love Love

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023

Verified Purchase

I could NOT put this book down. I have read The Paris Apartment, and I loved it as well, however, this book, UGH CHEFS KISS! I read it in less than 24 hours. I love how Lucy Foley attaches each character to one main character with their own different back stories. This book took so many twist I never saw coming! Just when I thought I had it figured out, I was way off base! 10/10 totally recommend this book!

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Kat K

Lots of twists and turns!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023

Verified Purchase

I loved that this kept me guessing from the start all the way to the end. I love that each character had secrets that slowly get revealed throughout the story. I literally gasped out loud as the story was ending. If you’re reading it for the first time, I suggest you pay attention to the details and see if you can put the puzzle pieces together.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Joan

Couldn’t put it down

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2023

Verified Purchase

I really loved this book. I felt the author describes the characters very well. I don’t want to say too much as to give anything away for someone who might be looking to purchase this book. I’ll definitely buy this authors books again

Helpful

Jean Nietsch

Really good!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

Verified Purchase

This is an excellent book! AS if the scene she writes about isn't enough, the story has a lot of twists and turns! The end brings the story all together with connections that you never saw coming! I recommend this book! Just a note, it is sexually explicit, so some readers may or may not want that.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Amazon Customer

Keeps you guessing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

Verified Purchase

Very good read. I love a good mystery. It left you guessing

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Fionac

Utter Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 22, 2020

Verified Purchase

I love crime fiction and I have read a lot of it, but, dear God, this book is terrible. The characters were stereotypes and mostly unpleasant and I hoped that most of them would be bumped off. Towards the end of the book I just skimmed each page as it was so predictable and over written. Please people, buy a book by Sara Paretsky instead of this nonsense. Oh and I guessed the ending half-way through the book.

264 people found this helpful

C. Murphy

A truly awful book with a big dollop of deja vue , mind the plot holes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 12, 2020

Verified Purchase

Apart from a story too familiar (!) I mostly hated this swiss cheese of a plot-hole filled book. First the idea that someone like the main character Jules, with her glam big city lifestyle and wealth/fame, choosing to hold her wedding in such a godforsaken place is quite laughable. There were several attempts to explain this away - the 50% discount for eg., received in return for featuring the island in her magazine; the way this place was described, you would have to pay ME to hold even a tea party there. Its apparently a tiny Island off the Irish coast, a place well known for its balmy seas and clement weather right? the island itself is an almost continuous peat bog which is described more like an actual swamp/bog/quicksand kind of deal where you can get sucked down to your death at any moment and the rest is lethal sheer cliffs and rocks. It apparently did not occur to the island owner and event holder that safety barriers might be a good thing to stop guests being sucked into the bog. Of course the idea that people at a party, in an unknown location with a MASSIVE unpredictable and mostly invisible hazard could perish by walking from one building to the next seemed perfectly fine. Ridiculous.

Next, as horrible as this location sounded, it seemed that at least 2 of the guests actually preferred to sit in a partially subterranean cave subject to flooding, too dark to see the back, full of weird noises, damp, dank and with unknown inhabitants and AT NIGHT !! ... than any other comfortable indoor place.

THEN, there was this odd disconnection where the author apparently forgot that she had said that only a select few would be staying in the Folly overnight, but then had hundreds of guests arriving for the day, events merging into the evening and night and no way for them to leave the island! where were they all going? was there a secret submarine evacuation planned, or a bridge she forgot to mention? as it happened, suspense was created by a violent, unpredicted/totally predictable storm which would have made a sea evac by anything other than a Naval destroyer impossible anyway.

Forgetting the logistics, the characters were so awful, I hoped they would all murder each other. All the suspenseful storylines were childishly obvious, the awful secrets eked out a child could have guessed and the villain I guessed about 5 pages in. I really liked the character Severine, because she said nothing and did nothing and was apparently part of the scenery.

129 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

Never again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2020

Verified Purchase

The book began good it was the firstever pre order i did but i will be pre ordering on kindle again but not this author as it was very weak it didnt grab me and would not read it ever again

78 people found this helpful

BeMoreCat

Foley strikes gold again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2020

Verified Purchase

Intriguing and captivating. I think that some of the reviewers who gave this book one star may have bad intentions. Read it and judge for yourself. I thought it was great!

64 people found this helpful

Danielle

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2020

Verified Purchase

I pre ordered this book as I'd read the hunting party, yes the basic story is similar ,a lot of people thrown together this time for a celebration, I guessed some back story before the end,which didn't spoil the story at all , I actually cared and disliked some of the characters, which is no mean feat, enjoyed this book immensely, I'm just annoyed with myself that I read it so quickly!! When's the next book out?

45 people found this helpful

See all reviews

The Guest List: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Read & Listen

Enjoy a free trial on us $0.00$0.00

Buy with 1-Click $18.74$18.74

People who viewed this also viewed

People who bought this also bought

Related to this topic

Product details

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Enjoy a free trial on us

$0.00

Buy with 1-Click

$18.74