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How to Kill Your Best Friend

By: Lexie Elliott
Narrated by: Ell Potter, Jane Collingwood
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Publisher's summary

If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.

Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband.

Lissa’s closest friends gather at the resort to honor her life, but Georgie and Bron can’t seem to stop looking over their shoulders. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water, and even their luxurious private villas can’t help them feel safe. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the funeral guests together on the island, nobody knows who they can trust. Lissa’s death was only the beginning....

©2021 Lexie Elliott (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

“Elliott...outdoes herself here. Readers might feel like they need a notebook to keep track of the threads of the complex plot: who has a secret history with whom, who has been telling lies about what, who really knows what happened on the day Lissa disappeared? Revelation follows revelation, with the pace increasing as the mysteries pile up, leaving us genuinely shocked at the end. A rousing success.” (Booklist)

“Utterly unnerving and completely engrossing.” (PopSugar)

“[T]he twisty plot reaches a satisfying resolution. Elliott makes her characters feel like real people. Fans of Lucy Foley’s The Guest List will be compulsively turning pages.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

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Predictable

I'd describe this as predictable and unimaginative. Every chance she had to think outside the box a little was avoided.

This is a typical friend with secrets get revenge trope. A friend dies, the rest get together and you learn they all have done immoral things. It trudges along giving you the details drop by drop. All that in an attempt to build the suspense, which was still meh. You can see when it's coming. A typical severe storm when it's time to go was laughable.

It's definitely a skip unless you just want to listen to something in the background.

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