When a prestigious author dies, a group of mid-list authors are brought to his remote Scottish island to write the end of his last book. They aren’t working together, though. It’s a competition, with a major payout and a book deal on the line. The stakes are high…and murder is on the menu.

I meant to draft a review of this book before I left on vacation for a week. But I didn’t, and now I’m trying to remember more than fragments because I listened to it basically nonstop for several days rather than taking my time with it. It sucked me in immediately. I liked that the chapters were narrated from the point of view of multiple characters. Because I was on audio, I never knew how much of the book was left and therefore didn’t know which characters may or may not get a POV chapter. As characters systematically began to die (whether by murder or accident or something spookier), their POV chapters died with them, leaving fewer characters to question for murder. It had very And Then There Were None vibes.

I quite enjoyed the book, though as I said before, I’m not sure it’ll particularly stick in my memory. Fun, quick romp, with a lovely quote that I enjoyed immensely:

He who holds the pen tells the truth.

Performance: The audiobook was read by Fiona Hardingham and was quite nice.