• 5 Stars
• Release date: 5th September
• Buy on Amazon

I LOVED this!

A group of teens head off to a post graduation week away before heading off to different colleges after the summer.

All well of friends from the prestigious Marian school, apart from Isadora (Izzy) who works part time at a books tore and lives with her single mum (a teacher at the school) and her disabled sister. Kassidy is Izzy’s best friend since childhood and surprises her with the weekend at a stately home on Sparrow Island which was the setting for their favourite whodunnit film set in the 20s. Kassidy wants to make it an immersive week so has provided period costumes for everyone and makes them send their clothes and phones back to the mainland.

We know from the very beginning that Izzy has a secret about Kassidy’s boyfriend Blaine, and she’s ready to do something about that secret with the knife that she’s got hidden in her bag. But this whole week is a week of secrets and when they start to come out at a dinner, the week turns from the joyous one last hurrah that Kassidy planned, and when Blaine is murdered. It gets worse, especially when it turns out he was stabbed, and Izzy was seen leaving his room shortly before his body was found, did she manage to get even with Blaine or did someone else beat her to it?

The police come to the island and a storm prevents everyone from leaving, as the teens are interviewed and more secrets and lies come out, will the killer be found before they all leave?

I loved this book, the ending reminded me of old shows like Murder She Wrote and Colombo, where everyone is gathered together, motives and alibis are discussed and the killer is unmasked.

The writing is great, I could picture everything, and there was enough backstory to get to know the characters without slowing down the book and going into too much detail. There’s so many twists and turns and red herrings, that for a YA novel it will keep you hooked until the end.