One of You

Her hen weekend was meant to be a celebration. Instead, it's a reckoning.

Sophie's hen do should be the perfect send-off before her fairy-tale wedding. Instead, it's a disaster from the start. Gathered at her fiancé's family estate in Ireland are the women who have shaped Sophie's life -- old friends who smile through decades of resentment, her future sister-in-law who's never liked her, and an uninvited guest from her past who threatens to unravel everything. They call themselves her nearest and dearest - but are they?

The drinks flow, the toasts are made, but beneath it all, the pretence of closeness is wearing dangerously thin.

By dawn, someone is found dead and Detective Sergeant Aoife Hanlon faces a locked-down crime scene and a group of guests who refuse to talk. Cut off from the outside world, with no phone reception, no neighbours, and no escape, something went very wrong at the remote luxury lodge. Aoife must untangle years of resentment, jealousy, and long-buried betrayals to find a killer hiding in plain sight.

Because while they all came to celebrate, one of them came to kill.

(c) 2027 by Claire McGowan, all rights reserved.