Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her private Greek island. But as Lana and her friends are trapped overnight in the island cut off by a wind storm, a murder occurs, spurred on by old friendships, concealed hatred, and a desire for revenge. What follows is a game of cat and mouse―a battle of wits, full of twists and turns. 

As always I am grateful to @netgalley for the ARC! I’m sad to report I was disappointed by this book; on its own it was a good mystery but compared to the author’s other two works I found this one lacking. I still enjoyed it, but for me it was missing the twists and literary devices of The Silent Patient and the suspense and dark academia smartness of The Maidens. The characters were all flawed in their own ways and many layers of secrets were revealed throughout, which kept the reader guessing who the killer and who the victim were throughout. The setting on the private Greek island with a haunted past in the middle of a wind storm was the perfect setting for a murder mystery to unfold. If I hadn’t read Michaelides’ other works first I probably would have rated this higher, but in knowing what the author is capable of this book fell flat for me.