Published by Sourcebook's Landmark Genres: Crime, Fiction, Mystery
Format: ARC, eBook
This is how you start a series! I found this book to be gripping and I found myself making time to read this entire book in one day.
It’s a party to end all parties, but not everyone is here to celebrate.
On New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd, an opera singer, had a house full of celebrating guests at his vacation home in Mirror Lake. Most of the guest were there to party and have a good time, but not all had partying in mind. Rhys’ body was found the next day!
DCI Ffion Morgan is called in to investigate and learns that she is teamed up with Leo Brady, a man she had a one-night stand with on NYE. This makes things both equally messy and interesting. Watching them move past this was part of the charm of this book. Both Ffion and Leo are likeable characters with their own secrets and pasts. They won me over and sold me on the book.
This was a solid police procedural with many suspects – basically everyone that the duo needs to sift through. The book goes back and forth in time as the story is told. Rhys was not the most likeable man, hence, there being many people who had reason to kill him.
I enjoyed the characters and can’t wait to read more about them and their investigations in future books. I am not the biggest fans of slow starts or slow burns; I struggle with them, but I didn’t mind the slow beginning.
Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.