The Guest List – Lucy Foley

In The Guest List, a group of people gather on an island off the coast of Ireland for the wedding of a successful blog owner and an upcoming television star.  However, secrets and ghosts from the past threaten to overtake them all.

I first became aware of Lucy Foley’s latest when it won as 2020’s Best Mystery & Thriller in the Goodreads Choice Awards.  When it went on sale for the Kindle a few weeks later, I picked it up and dug right in.  If I have any complaints, it would be about the coincidences of many of the main characters having unknown ties to each other, which leads to the “mystery” of who the killer is.  And I say “mystery” because there is probably about 10 pages between finding out who the victim is and who the killer is.  Overall, I enjoyed the effort and I’ll probably keep a look our for more work from Foley in the future.