Once upon a time there were four couples: Rob and Edie, Mark and Jayne, Toby and Ruth, and eventually Paul and Emily. Edie was the woman the men orbited around until she chose Rob, and then one by one, the others married. For some time, all four couples have had The Long Weekend at various escapes. But this weekend in Northumbria takes a different turn as Gilly Macmillan pens her latest thriller about three women, their husbands, and one vindictive widow who plans to murder one of the remaining husbands.
From the time Jayne, Ruth, and Emily
arrive at Dark Fell Barn, an isolated retreat that only their hosts can drive
them to, things go terribly wrong. They are already in the dumps because for
various reasons, their husbands are delayed until the next day. Emily is the
newest addition to the group, and she uneasy among them without her husband. The
situation goes from bad to worse when the women discover a package left for
them in the barn that details that one of them will lose their husband over
this long weekend.
Being isolated from the
world in their out-of-the-way destination, the women cannot reach their
husbands to check on them and tell them about the threatening letter in the
package. Ruth gets drunk, Edie decides to hike back to the farmhouse where the
hosts live, and Jayne tries to first go after Edie then babysit Ruth. Before morning
comes, Edie will have broken her ankle, Ruth will have disappeared, and none of
the husbands have shown up as planned.
But nothing is really
as it seems, and when the women get back to their homes, their lives will
become completely undone in this can't-stop-until-you-finish-it novel.
Gilly Macmillan’s first novel, What She Knew, was an
Edgar award nominee. With a background in art history from her studies at Bristol University and the Courtauld
Institute of Art in London, Macmillan lives in Bristol, UK, with her family and
writes full time.
My review will be posted on Goodreads starting January
22, 2022.
I would like to thank William Morrow, Custom House, and
NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.
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