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Pour yourself more wine, dunk your hand into your enormous pop corn bucket as you frantically flip your pages just like I’m doing now!

This book is filled with entertaining mind games, surprise, interesting twists you mostly never see them come and hit you in your face so hard! This is wild, wild ride, my friends!

Best swimmer friends gather to celebrate the loss of their friend Lissa who is drowned at Kanu Lake where is filled with mythical creatures like serpentine and the very same haunted place always likes to take and take!

Lissa was smart woman who knew very well how dangerous swimming at this place alone in the night and she’s too skillful swimmer not to get drowned but here we go! She’s dead , isn’t she?

We’re reading two best girlfriends’ narration: Georgie: living at the states, preoccupied, workaholic, cool business woman who was partners in crime with Lissa and Bronwyn seemed like the third wheel of their close connection. But it’s normal when three women form a special bond, always third one finds herself left behind when the other two share more intimate bound.

Bronwyn seems like domestic, protective, loyal mother, efficient accountant who chose to resume peaceful family life on the contrary of Georgie who has connection issues and she hesitates to put a name to her relationship with Adam.

Duncan is the also their other friend who went to same school with Lissa. And Jem is sad widower who already starts flirting with the hotel customers. It seems like he can deal with grief better than Lissa’ friends.

Georgie keeps questioning the death of Lissa because some pieces don’t fit properly and Bronwyn looks agitated, resented. She’s keeping secrets and getting verbal threats ( a threat blaming her about Lissa’s death written on the mirror with lipstick) and Georgie gets papers via courier tells her to follow the money. Does someone play games with them?
And the author starts throwing bombs into our laps because Lissa is not normal person: she may have borderline disorder and she can be really illogical, lethal punisher when things don’t suit her expectations. She can be really batshit crazy! I know Talking Head’s psycho killer start to blast in your head ( okay, it’s just me: because at the most agitated moments of the books I like to play theme songs in my head)
Could one of them kill her because she was way too much dangerous? Who tries to play mind games with them? Definitely, yes, but who?

It seems like the crystal clear water they swim or ultra luxurious villas they stay are not safe anymore. They get attacked at both places. Building high tension and claustrophobic atmosphere make you jumpy and push you turn pages a little faster.

The beginning of the book may be slow burn and the psychological character analysis slowly develops but especially the last third is epic action packed thriller feast and twisty conclusion is amazing.

I’m giving four satisfying, well developed characterization, web of lies, surprising, mysterious thriller stars!