June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie MacTavish, a mega-successful author, invites June and her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. June is less than thrilled to spend time with Sadie - and her husband, June's former crush - but agrees to go.
The party gets off to a shaky start when old grudges resurface but when they wake the next morning, they find something worse: Sadie is missing, the house is in shambles and bloodstains mar the staircase. None of them has any memory of the night before; they wonder if they were drugged. Everyone's a suspect. Since June had a secret rendezvous with Sadie's husband, she has plenty of reason to suspect herself. Apparently, so do the cops.
June, Em, Kimi, Sadie and Amy have been friends for about 20 years. Some are closer to each other than others. When Sadie invites them to get together for Amy's baby shower, June begrudgingly goes since she and Sadie have always been frenemies. Sadie is a famous author, is married to June's ex-boyfriend and seems to have everything. Sadie isn't a nice person so there is tension right away between the five of them once they arrive at Sadie's. After a wild night of partying that no one remembers the next day, they discover that Sadie has disappeared and there is a wall covered in blood. The police are called and June becomes a suspect of harming Sadie because of her past history with Sadie's husband.
I've been away for many girls weekends and I'm glad they were never like this! I thought this story was okay. I liked the writing style and thought it moved at a good pace. It is written in first person perspective in June's voice. There were lots of twists and many possibilities on who may have wished Sadie harm and I found the ending believable. As a head's up, there is swearing.
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