The Beach Party was my first rendezvous with Smith, which I enjoyed but for the use of the present-tense narrative.
It didn't put me off reading another of her books, but I have the same words for this*: enjoyable but for the present-tense narrative, which adds nothing and takes away a lot.
However, it's a tense thriller about four friends of longstanding, none of whom I particularly liked…but I think that was the intention. (See About the Book below.) Of course, it's not long before you realise that the word 'friends' has to be used somewhat loosely. And then there's the intrigue of an event that occurred fifteen years previously that weaves in and out of the story, making you wonder what on earth it has to do with anything: until the very end. Nicely done.
Gripping, well-written and entertaining. But let’s ditch that present-tense narrative, shall we?
*Provide by NetGalley
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