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A weekend retreat for a bookclub gone wrong.

When 6 ladies converge on a country estate for a weekend, murder is far from their minds. At least literally speaking. Until the next day when they find the dead body of a fortune teller they had met the night before. But with the snowstorm, there’s no way to get to the village and get help. And with no phones in the house, no way to communicate with the outside world. They’re cut off. But the fortune teller isn’t the only one that meets an untimely death and now the group has to wonder who’s picking them off one by one.

What a fascinating mix of characters! They weren’t all likable, in fact I wanted to smack most of them half the time. But they each had distinct personalities that stood out and mixed/clashed well with the others. I was confused about who could have committed the murders because I thought they were all capable.

The book did drag at times but it had a creep factor I enjoyed. Overall, it had enjoyable/hateable/interesting characters but I wasn’t too keen on how the book progressed and tied up at the end. The culprit wasn’t who I thought it was and the reasoning given just didn’t feel right.

Thank you to Netgalley and Joffee Books for a copy of the book!