A small island off the coast of Ireland complete with deserted homes, castle ruins, and a boggy cemetery. Does this sound like the perfect place to have your wedding? Maybe, maybe not --but it is an excellent setting for a spooky thriller and a bit of murder. The book creeps on slowly introducing you to bits and pieces of the wedding party. There is a handful of point of view characters including the bride, the groom, the best man, and the wedding planner as well as a few more characters. We learn slowly, like the storm moving in from the ocean, about traumatic events in some of the characters' pasts.
As you read you can imagine that this book would look great on the screen, I did some googling and it looks like a miniseries is in the works, but still likely years off. If you like locked room mysteries this is a locked tiny island mystery. The multiple POV chapters help the pacing but overall it's a slow burn or a slow sink into the bog, you may not know you are stuck too deep to put the book down until it's too late. Sure you can predict some of the backstories and twists in the book, but that is part of the appeal. You the reader will want to know how is it going to come together, is anything connected, is someone dead or not, who is dead and why.
So many pages lead up to the murder and few pages are devoted to the aftermath, I would have liked to have a little more on what happened when the police would have arrived.
Overall 4 stars, when this is a show, I'll be sure to watch it!
