You’re invited to a nightmare dinner party on Notting Hill. Don’t be late!
Mark Edwards masterfully reconstructs the locked room thriller within a high-security Notting Hill townhouse. Twenty-five years after a dot.com project ended abruptly, 6 former colleagues reunite to honor their late mentor, Sebastian Marlowe, at a dinner party given by two of the cohort who are now married and who’ve achieved great wealth and success. The team hasn’t had any contact for decades. What begins as an awkward trip down memory and quickly turns into a lethal psychological interrogation when the group is held at gunpoint by home invaders.
One of the group’s assignments while working for Marlowe happened to be a program called The Wasp Trap. It was an algorithm they designed and tested to identify psychopaths. The invaders are demanding that the guests reveal their secrets from that summer or face execution. The guests are fighting for their lives as the ghosts of the past are dredged up and served with a side of bloodshed.
This was intriguing and entertaining. I’ve read other books by this author and like this new direction. He writes well and the characters were believable and multidimensional. Definitely felt claustrophobic and threatening. There are several surprising twists along the way. Kept me fully engaged.
I was able to listen to the audio book while also following along in the e-book ARC provided by the publisher. The two narrators, John Hopkins’s and Anna Burnett did an admirable job of voicing the characters and creating a menacing atmosphere that led to my enjoyment of he production.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre and tags: psychological drama, old friends, murder, psychopaths, secrets and lies
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