#BlogTour: An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena @sharilapena @TransworldBooks @annecater

About 

Book Synopsis:

We can’t choose the strangers we meet.

As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell’s Inn, they’re all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere. They watch their fellow guests with interest, from a polite distance.

Usually we can avoid the people who make us nervous, make us afraid.

With a violent storm raging, the group finds itself completely cut off from the outside world. Nobody can get in – or out. And then the first body is found . . . and the horrifying truth comes to light. There’s a killer among them – and nowhere to run.

Until we find ourselves in a situation we can’t escape. Trapped.

My Review:

An Unwanted Guest is a classic style murder mystery that is very atmospheric and totally gripping.

My interest was piqued immediately with the description of the isolated hotel which seemed to just shout that something big was going to happen.  Though the book starts of fairly innocently with everyone meeting each other and getting on quite well things take a sinister turn the next morning with the discovery of a dead body.  What happened and who is the murder?

The character’s back stories are gradually revealed throughout the book and it soon becomes apparent that everyone has secrets in their past.  The author keeps everyone guessing as to who the murder was and I found i kept changing my mind as to who it was. The tension in this book is intense and I felt myself reading faster and faster as I desperately wanted to find out who it was and why they did it.

I have read all of this author’s previous books but I felt this was her best yet.  Other people are comparing it to Agatha Christie but as I’ve never read one of her books I can’t confirm that.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater and Transworld publishers for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour. If you like gripping, classic style murder mysteries you’ll love this book.

About The Author:

Shari worked as a lawyer and as
an English teacher before writing
fiction. Her debut thriller, The Couple
Next Door, was a global bestseller.
Her second thriller, A Stranger in the
House, has been a Sunday Times and
New York Times bestseller.