Great read. The twists just kept coming. I struggled to put this one down, I was so engrossed with who, when, where and what.

Becky, how far will she go to keep a deadly secret.
Psychological thriller that is totally captivating.
After what happened back twenty years ago the university students are together again for another funeral.
Pregnant Becky is still haunted by what she did, so this time will she lie again?
Oh my word what a fantastic book page after page. I was totally gripped into this story, that is the best I've read so far from this author. Big thumbs up from me.

Becky, Richie, Tom, and Emelia are college friends who treated another classmate, Pippa, very badly, and she died. The group felt varying degrees of guilt about what happened to Pippa, but mostly have managed to keep the past in the past, and life has carried on. The friends have paired off, and now Becky is pregnant. The friends meet up at the funeral of another old friend, Jodie, who supposedly committed suicide, and this triggers old memories, causing suspicions to rise to the surface.
This is a novel of revenge, the lies and secrets of the past coming through to the present day and affecting all the four friends, making it difficult to decide which of them are trustworthy. The plot has several twists and turns, some I guessed were coming, but the ending was a surprise to me. A great read, I really enjoyed it. 5 stars.

Loved this read. It was an edge of you seat suspense that I couldn’t put down. The twist and turns kept me wanting more. Thank you for the advance copy

Another page tuner from Sheryl Browne. I adored this book. I loved the storyline, it had me reading late into the night. I also loved the relationships between all of the characters. A definite 5 star book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Once again Sheryl Browne has written a deeply twisted psychological thriller that was absolutely a page turner. I needed to know how this was going to end, FAST!

A party on the beach leads to a night no one will forget but for all the wrong reasons. Now twenty years later, the friends have gathered for the funeral of one of their group. This triggers memories from that long ago night and starts everyone spiraling. Revenge appears to be the catalyst for the events following the funeral, but who is seeking the revenge? Everyone appears to have their own version of the events of that long ago night.

This was a fast paced book that kept me guessing the entire time. The ending was superb and definitely not what I guessed.
It alternated between past and present and alternating perspectives.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for the advanced copy

I always enjoy reading Sheryl Browne's books, and this one was no exception. The points of view alternating in short chapters keep providing new reasons to suspect one character or another and, even when something has become very obvious, there's still more to discover. And I'm still a little perturbed by the ending.

What a rollercoaster this book was. A group of friends go out for a drunken get together on a beach only one of them doesn't come back. Years later some of them have moved on from it but not all. This has a major impact on what happens next.
Brilliant book from start to finish. I always enjoy this authors books.

Thank you NetGalley, the publisher and the author for this earc! One of my favorite psychological thrillers of the year.

Sheryl Browne is one of my favourite authors so when I see this I could not wait to read and wow it did not disappoint. Once I started reading I could not put it down definitely a page turner with many twists and turns. The story goes from past to present with multiple perspectives which definitely built up the suspense. It was filled with suspense from start to finish and wow what a ending it was I really didn’t see the ending coming. Once again the author has written a fantastic gripping thriller which I can’t wait to recommend to everyone. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this great book.

Married couples Becky and Richie and Emelia and Tom are long time friends who meet up at the funeral of another longtime friend, Jodie. Everyone has seemingly perfect lives, until little by little, secrets are revealed. The story is mostly focused on Becky, who is pregnant but living with regret over Pippa’s death while at a college beach party twenty years ago. Pippa’s death has haunted Becky, who seems stuck dwelling on the past while the others have spent every day trying to move on and forget the horrible night. Pippa’s killer was never found and Jodie’s death seemed suspicious to Becky, Is someone in their friend group a killer or was someone else there that fateful night?

I was a bit confused by all the characters introduced at once as we jumped from present to past, but quickly caught on. I knew where the story was going and guessed who was who as characters were introduced. I found Becky to be quite passive and found myself constantly questioning her actions and thoughts, especially to the obvious. As the story carried on, I felt as if we did not get closure for some characters. Ok read, though nothing stood out to me as memorable compared to others with similar plots.

I keep saying I need to stop reading the “20 years ago…” types of mysteries, because they all sound different and new when I read the synopsis, but then they’re almost always the same. Unfortunately, this was another book with the same formula: 20 years ago at a university beach party, a shy and bullied girl named Pippa was found dead the next morning. Now, the friends who were there are brought together by another tragedy, and the secrets they all hold may be their undoing.

That’s about it - if you read a lot of mysteries and thrillers, you know the drill. Becky and Richie, as well as Emilia and Tom, are married now and Becky is pregnant (a side story that just kind of vanished in the end). Their friend Jodie, who was at that beach party years before, has killed herself and now the group is back together for her funeral. Only, after talking to her therapist and her ex-partner, at least one of them believes this wasn’t suicide. All of the friends are now turning on each other, even their spouses, as the police start asking more questions.

There were some twists in this, but they were relatively small ones. The ending was good and unexpected, but not anything that shocked me. The characters wanted to be developed, as the book jumped between Pippa in the past and the others involved now in the present, but they weren’t very interesting or deep. I feel like I’ve read this variety of book dozens of times, and historically, they usually aren’t my four and five star reviews, so I think I’m going to pass the next one up. For this one, 3.5 stars.

(Thank you to Bookouture, Sheryl Brown and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my review. This book is slated to be released on November 18, 2024.)

I have read many of this author’s books and have always enjoyed them and this one was n exception.

The book moves between past and present as we learn about this particular group of friends, what has happened before that now brings us to where we are today. The author did a great job of setting the story up and as it moves forward, we are given read herrings along the way that kept you on your toes thinking as to who the guilty party was.

The main theme of the book focuses on revenge, and we are presented with characters we do not always like but do add a lot to the story. All of them seem to have secrets and these secrets keep the book moving along at a good pace.

I do have to say that I did figure out one of the main culprits from about half way through the book but was quite taken aback by the ending, I did not expect the final twist.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for an advanced copy of the book, all opinions expressed are my own.

Becky has never gotten over Pippa’s death at a beach party during their university days, and when her friends from back then start dying suspicious deaths twenty years later, the past has clearly come back to haunt them. I enjoyed this thriller but didn’t love it as much as the author’s previous books. Perhaps it’s because the trope of past cover-ups from university days is a common theme amongst psychological thrillers, and although the final twist was shocking, it came rather out of the blue. With a cast of horrible characters, the author does a fabulous job of character development and there are plenty of plot twists. I will definitely be reading the author’s next book.

Thank you to Sheryl Browne, Bookouture and Netgalley for my advance copy.

I raced through this pacy thriller in two days and it was a wild ride. I had no idea where the author was taking me, but I knew I wanted to follow…..⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A small group of students partying on the beach one night sets the stage for a gripping mystery. When outsider Pippa is teased and storms off alone, her body is found the next morning - but none of the partygoers reveal what they know. Was someone with Pippa that night? Who knows more than they’re letting on? And, most importantly, what really happened to Pippa? How did she die?

From there, the story jumps forward twenty years, unraveling through alternating perspectives, with a strong focus on Becky, one of the friends at the center of the drama. The shifts between past and present keep the tension high as we dig deeper into the web of secrets, betrayals, and lies that everyone’s been hiding for years.

I love how Sheryl Browne writes unlikeable characters — it gives the story an edge, like watching a group slowly self-destruct while you can’t look away. There’s plenty of backstabbing, cheating, and cold-blooded revenge, making it a satisfyingly juicy read. The suspense is solid, and the twists kept me hooked, though I have to admit, I guessed who was taking revenge for Pippa fairly early on, which took away some of the shock at the end.

That said, it’s still a dark, intense, and thoroughly entertaining read. If you enjoy twisty thrillers packed with secrets, lies, and messy relationships, it’s definitely worth checking out. A solid three stars from me!

Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture, and Sheryl Browne for the opportunity to read and review this book!

I enjoyed this book but not quite as much as other books I have read by this author. It didn't really grip me and I did guess what was going to happen except for the very ending and wow that was a real shock.

Another great read from this author. This time we meet a group of old friends who come together for the funeral of a friend and it starts to bring up bad memories of another friends death many years ago and the secrets and lies that surrounded her death. As bad things start to happen to the group and a new man comes into their lives will the truth tear all of them apart and is the facts of that night even darker than any of them can imagine. A great dark thriller.

A great addictive read from one of my favourite authors which kept me involved in the storyline from the beginning.

The characters were well described but not all likeable but this was just one brilliant book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC which I can thoroughly recommend.

I was hooked from the first page and enjoyed the concept of this psychological thriller element to it. The characters were everything that I was looking for and was engaged with the storyline going on. Sheryl Browne was able to tell this story and was wanting more.