Released: 30th August 2022 Pan Macmillan Australia RRP: $34.99
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker's unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker's unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
Review:
I find mystery/thrillers to be a bit of hit and miss with me. I" m either gonna love it or be so bored that I struggle to finish the book.
I'm happy to say that Daisy Darker was one of the best books in this genre that I have read n a long time.
I've discovered that murder mysteries that are in a setting when people are isolated and can't leave where they are for whatever reason seem to work the best for me,
Now I do have to say that I guessed the twist ending, all of them actually early on, but dismissed the ideas thinking that surely that wouldn't be it, but lo and behold was I shocked when I discovered I was right.
Still, that didn't take away from the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
I felt terrible for Daisy and the family she was born into, especially her awful sisters; her parents weren't that great either.
I enjoyed the descriptions and idea of Seaglass, the house that leaves the family isolated while waiting for the tide to go out; this story was atmospheric and was interspersed throughout with flashbacks to the past, which explains a lot about the family.
While this was my first book by Alice Feeney, it certainly won't be my last, especially if they are anywhere as good as Daisy Darker.
I highly recommend this book to everyone.
I highly recommend this book to everyone.
This book was sent to me to review from Pan Macmillan Australia; all thoughts are my own.
