Book description
A stag do, six old friends ... and a secret they'd all kill to protect.
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When Pete and his friends set sail on a private yacht in the Balearics to celebrate Fergus' upcoming wedding, they're all looking forward to sun, sea and copious quantities of alcohol.
But there's a…
Why read it?
1 author picked Adrift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The story focuses on six friends reuniting for a stag do on a private yacht in the Balearics, a setting I found both fascinating and original.
They are all looking forward to partying hard in the beautiful sunshine, but when one of the crew meets a grisly end in a shark cage, it seems that a terrible event in the group’s university days has come back to haunt them.
Being trapped together at sea really ramped up the tension and sense of isolation for me, while Hunter deftly drip-feeds clues into the narrative through flashbacks as well as present-day…
From A.A.'s list on whodunnit thriller set in idyllic locations.
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