Spring Reads

Едно сватбено тържество се превръща в мрачен и смъртоносен кошмар в този изкусително зловещ и атмосферен трилър, напомнящ за Агата Кристи, от авторката на бестселъра на „Ню Йорк Таймс“ „Ловното парти“. Булката – Придружителката – Кумът – Сватбената организаторка – Шаферката – Тялото На остров край бреговете на Ирландия гостите се събират, за да отпразнуват как двама души свързват животите си в един. Младоженецът: красив и обаятелен, изгряваща телевизионна звезда. Булката: умна и амбициозна, издателка на списание. Това е сватба като за списание или за знаменитости: дизайнерската рокля, отдалеченото място, луксозните подаръци за гостите, бутиковото уиски. Сигналът на мобилните телефони може да е слаб, а вълните — бурни, но всеки детайл е умело планиран и ще бъде умело изпълнен. Но съвършенството е за плановете, а хората са твърде човешки. Щом шампанското започва да се отваря и празненството започва, обидите и дребнавата завист се смесват със спомените и добрите пожелания. Приятелите на младоженеца започват играта с пиене от ученическите си години. Шаферката уж неволно съсипва роклята си. Най-старият приятел на булката дава неудобно загрижена наздравица. А после някой е намерен мъртъв. Кой не е пожелал добро на младоженците? А може би по-важният въпрос е защо?

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Washington, D.C., and the Calhouns are in the midst of hosting their annual party to celebrate the best of the spring season. With a house full of friends, neighbors, and their beloved three adult children, the Calhouns are expecting another picture\-perfect event. But a brutal murder in the middle of the celebration transforms the yearly gathering into a homicide scene, and all the guests into suspects. Behind their façade of perfection, the Calhoun family has been keeping some very dark secrets. Parents who use money and emotional manipulation to control their children. Two sons, one the black sheep who is desperate to outrun mistakes he's made, and the other a new father, willing to risk everything to protect his child. And a an Instagram influencer who refuses to face the truth about the man she married. As the investigation heats up, family tensions build, and alliances shift. Long\-buried resentments surface, forcing the Calhouns to face their darkest secrets before it's too late.