Author: Alice Feeney
Publisher: Flatiron Books/Macmillan Audio
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Format: Audio ALC
Narrator: Stephanie Racine
Length: 10 hrs 51 mins
No. of Pages: 352
Date of Publication: August 30, 2022
My Rating: 5 Stars
DESCRIPTION:
Author Alice Feeney reads the acknowledgments on this program.
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
“Wow! Echoes of Christie's And Then There Were None but turned into something wonderfully original and wrapped in a genuinely creepy dysfunctional family fairy-tale of a novel, this takes Feeney to the next level. I LOVED IT!”
—Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes and Insomnia
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
“Wow! Echoes of Christie's And Then There Were None but turned into something wonderfully original and wrapped in a genuinely creepy dysfunctional family fairy-tale of a novel, this takes Feeney to the next level. I LOVED IT!”
—Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes and Insomnia
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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MY THOUGHTS:
A living nightmare. Or is it something far more sinister? The Darker family has been estranged for years. But Nana Darker’s 80th birthday is coming up, and the three Darker girls—Daisy, Rose, and Lily—as well as their now-divorced parents, Nancy and Frank, will all be there. There is one other guest invited, and that is old family neighbor and friend, Conor Kennedy. With a nod to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the stage is set. This locked-room story takes place in a span of eight hours.
Once the tide is in, the family can leave. As long as the tide is out, they are trapped. However, there might not be any survivors. So, who will be alive at the end of such an ominous story? This chilling story reveals things about the family, both past and present. With the dual-timeline narrative, the family dynamic presents itself.
Having read two five-star books by Alice Feeney— His & Hers and Beautiful Ugly— I knew that I would be headed to an excellent reading journey with Daisy Darker. Let’s just say that I never picked up on one of the biggest twists I have ever come upon while reading a thriller. Now that I know the twist, I want to go back and try to figure out how I missed the sneaky tidbits along the way. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Many thanks to Flatiron Books/Macmillan Audio and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.
Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years, and now lives in Devon with her family.
Beautiful Ugly is her seventh novel.
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