Publisher: William Morrow
Published: March 23, 2021
Source: Publisher
Summary:
A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this psychological thriller from the author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident—and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name—out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life.
Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears—and Abigail’s future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was the beginning of something special and he’s tracked her down to prove it.
Does she tell Bruce and ruin their idyllic honeymoon—and possibly their marriage? Or should she handle this psychopathic stalker on her own? To make the situation worse, strange things begin to happen. She sees a terrified woman in the night shadows, and no one at the resort seems to believe anything is amiss… including her perfect new husband.
My thoughts:
I absolutely love picking up a novel by Peter Swanson…I love that they are all so different, yet so thrilling and completely binge-worthy. However, this latest one seemed a bit too over-the-top for me to be totally believable. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, I just didn’t love it as much as I have his other books.
There are still a lot of things I did enjoy about this book – it’s still got a creepy setting that kept me on the edge of my seat and for a good part of the book, I really didn’t know where things were heading. I also loved how skillfully the author wove the paranoia of the characters into the plot – it was quite palpable at times and that made for some very tense reading.
It was still an entertaining read but I think it just missed the mark for me to make it stand out. I will of course still read what Peter Swanson writes next and of course, I still have a couple of his books I still need to read, which I hope to do soon.
