The Last Night Out
A psychological thriller
by Catherine O'Connell
Six friends. A bride to be. One murder. Too many secrets.
After drinking too much at her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes to find a stranger in her bed. To make matters worse, a phone call brings the devastating news that her friend Angie was murdered some time after they parted ways the night before.
Kelly Delaney, who left the party early, is the first of Maggie’s friends to face questions from Chicago homicide detective Ron O’Reilly. After taking a closer look at the other women who attended the party, O’Reilly concludes that at least some of them are lying.
As the clock ticks down to the wedding day and more shocking secrets are revealed, the murderer zeros in on another one of the girls. Can the killer be stopped before there is another victim?
❃❃The Last Night Out releases September 1st❃❃
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Momma Says: 2 stars⭐⭐
The eye-catching cover for this one caught my eye, and the blurb sounded so promising that I dove right in. The first chapter was quite compelling, but things rapidly declined from there. Yes, there are secrets, lots of secrets, and everyone is suspect. However, instead of a gripping psychological thriller, the story became more like women's fiction. A who's cheating who group of thirty something women who desperately need to grow up. We do have a murder thrown in, but with so many points of view from characters who aren't particularly likable, it was hard to care much about the outcome. There is a twist at the end, and I'll admit that I didn't figure this one out, but after setting the book aside so many times, it was too little, too late. To sum it up, The Last Night Out was more an exercise in frustration than the gripping thriller I was hoping for.
❃❃ARC provided by NetGalley and Severn House
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