
Reader Score
71%
71% of readers
recommend this book
Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.
New Year's Eve, 1999. Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect one another, they have to find out who did. The ex, who drowns her darkest secret in a hip flask as the woman she loves drifts further away."With seven unreliable narrators, the twists in this one will keep readers guessing." -Parade
"Wilding delves deep, focusing on a character-driven story in her deliciously tense debut." -South Florida Sun-Sentinel "This captivating debut literary thriller entwines the searing stories of several women who suffered at the hands of the same man. This cautionary tale satisfies in its culmination of long-overdue justice for spurned women." -Library Journal (starred) "What's most distinctive here is not the question of whodunit or even the piercing group portrait of the women in Jamie's life but the delicate care with which Wilding ensures that even the most routine revelations...arrive with a jolt." -Kirkus Reviews