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The Club

A Novel

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6 of 7 copies available
6 of 7 copies available

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Are you ready for the roller coaster ride that is The Club? . . . A beautifully written, densely plotted murder mystery that takes place at a private club off the coast of England. Read about a luxurious, celeb-only island during a weekend of partying and ultimately murder." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club March '22 Pick)

From the author of People Like Her comes a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs.

Everyone's Dying to Join . . .

The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media.

The most spectacular of all is Island Home—a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast—and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade.

But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point: the ambitious and expensive project has pushed the Home Group's CEO and his long-suffering team to their absolute limits. All of them have something to hide—and that's before the beautiful people with their own ugly secrets even set foot on the island.

As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home's members will begin to wish they'd never made the guest list.

Because at this club, if your name's on the list, you're not getting out.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 28, 2022
      This masterly thriller from the pseudonymous Lloyd (People like Her) effectively delays revealing who among the large cast of characters has died violently. Ned Groom has created exclusive clubs around the world for the elite of the elite, who pay huge sums to have their every whim catered to. Groom has just launched his most spectacular branch yet, on a private island 90 minutes from London, accessible by car only by a causeway at low tide. Its amenities include Poseidon, a fishbowl-like restaurant with views of the surrounding sea. The prologue, in which two unidentified people in a Land Rover halfway across the causeway realize they aren’t going to make it as the tide rapidly rises, is followed by a Vanity Fair article, “Murder on the Island,” which describes Poseidon patrons noticing a submerged Land Rover and its grim contents outside the window. That development and the discovery of a body on the island turn “the party of the year” into “the murder mystery of the decade.” Flashbacks provide an array of suspects and motives. Lloyd (husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) makes the reader care about even unappealing characters, and the payoff is completely satisfying. Fans of Ruth Ware’s One by One will be riveted. Agent: Hillary Jacobson, ICM Partners.

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2022

      An elite group of clubs all have "home" in their names. The newest and most lavish one--Island Home--is opening, and only those at the pinnacle of their career are invited for the weekend. Opening this resort has strained the Home Group, and its quirky and enigmatic CEO has reached the breaking point. The membership fee has just gone up, and not everyone is happy about it. Set on an exclusive island accessible only at low tide with a single road, it is the perfect setting for a murder with lots of twists and turns. Narrator Tamaryn Payne has a delightful British accent, but listeners may find this challenging to follow since the book moves from Vanity Fair coverage of the weekend, to lots of details and descriptions of Island Home and its furnishings, and lots of juicy details about the main characters. VERDICT Recommended for large public libraries and those where the Reese Book Club books are popular.--Gretchen Pruett

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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