Ruth Ware – One Perfect Couple

After hitting a dead end in her research, Lyla agrees to join her boyfriend, an aspiring actor, as contestants on a new reality show.  Planning to treat the show as a vacation, Lyla assumes she will be booted in the first two weeks.  Unfortunately, an unexpected tropical storm after the first challenge, which Lyla one but which booted her boyfriend from the show, left the remaining contestants stranded and injured.  The longer they remain on the island, their numbers, and their food and water supply, keep dwindling.  As tensions start to run high, can Lyla and her fellow contestants manage to take control of their situation until help arrives?

Released in 2024, One Perfect Couple brings Ruth Ware back to my attention for the first time in nearly two years.  While the bones of the plot date back to Agatha Christie and the classic And Then There Were None, Ware wraps it in a contemporary setting to breathe in some new life.  I hope it won’t be another two years before I circle back to Ware’s work again.