I'm really hit and miss when it comes to contemporary "thrillers" but I'm feeling quite positive about this one. It kept my interest. No real surprises (I did guess the killer early on). Honestly, this felt reminiscent of HBO's The White Lotus. An exotic island, a murder (in the present) then back to the past to highlight all the various suspects. 

This had that annoying (I find it annoying) JUST POV "chapters" ... no chronological chapters listed. This makes it very difficult to move between formats (I had this in all three, audio, kindle and physical). Per usual, NO TOC at all in the physical copy (a disservice).  

It starts out "The Wedding Night" (the present) and this is an omniscient/3rd person. Present tense. Always nice when mother nature happens to cooperate to add atmosphere with a storm/knocking the lights out.  The book then shifts to five different 1st person POVs (Aoife - the wedding planner, Hannah - the plus one, Jules - the bride, Johnno - the best man, Olivia - the bridesmaid). Closer to the end, we actually get Will's POV added in too.  The POVs don't get equal billing, and they aren't much earlier, really just the day before (although there are some memories and such),  there's no set order, and the time shift back to "The Wedding Night" happens 11 times, as the individual storylines catch up to the present. 

Right at the start - it sets up that something has happened, so much blood, we/the reader, assume (from the blurb) that it's a murder, but WHO is the victim? Who is the murderer? Why?

SPOILERS

Will ... will is killed. And it turns out that every POV has a motive. I suspected Aoife right off, just because of the whole "graveyard" and sad family history and how hard she went after getting Will and Jules to have the wedding there. Not really a surprise. Olivia had motive before coming to the island ... although she wasn't really at the "I want to kill him" point. Johnno, Hannah and Julia only discovered things on the island. In the end though, all five COULD have been the murderer.

Really this was just a popcorn read. Nothing really deep. There were some discussion questions in the Kindle copy, but they didn't really spark much thought for me. 

Content: Quite a bit of proFanity (x97) and some sex, not to "smut" level though ...