Although Loch Corrin is an elite vacation, the estate is immense and extremely isolated, and the group is more accustomed to glamorous city life than to nature.

Some like each other more than others, and all are a little stressed about their trip to the wilderness. The group has a complicated network of mixed emotions for one another. Only Katie, Miranda’s oldest friend from childhood, is single. Samira and Giles are married with a new baby, Priya. Julien’s best friend, Mark, is there with his girlfriend, Emma, who doesn’t know about Mark’s crush on Miranda. Miranda, beautiful and popular, is married to Julien. However, the older they get, the more the secrets from their pasts and their new realities separate them. Most of them met while attending university and have been in contact in the decade since, usually getting together for New Year’s Eve. The only Spenser book I thought was worth much, mostly because there’s not as much Spenser smarminess and he shows a humane side to dealing with this case in a way I found endearing.On December 30, 2018, a group of friends meets up and travels to Loch Corrin, a wilderness resort in the Scottish Highlands for a New Year’s Eve trip. I loved it.Ī beautiful story and excellent resource for kids with ADHD and their parents. A fun story of a gangster-turned-detective who is dealing with his past to help his lady friend in the present despite signs that he should be. This early period Donald Westlake quickie is one of the best things Hard Case Crime has ever republished. A confidently written debut work of high quality. But on a deeper level, it’s a greater exploration of Asian identity and the power of family throughout generations. On the surface, this is a twisty time travel mystery. She’s a talented writer but she writes the ugliest endings. Lucy Foley’s books have a low ceiling that she can’t help but hit.

But then the killer is revealed and their motivations are garbage at best and problematic at worse and it soured me on the whole thing.

I was prepared to write about this being a decent read. So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny.

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