Title: The Leaving Party
Author: Lesley Sanderson
Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Publisher: Bookouture, 31st January 2020
Buy Links: Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Play
Blurb
Every year on the same day, on the anniversary, I receive a single black rose. Thirteen years of dark petals, jagged thorns, dredging up memories I’ve tried to forget…
I’ve packed up my life. All my belongings are carefully sealed in labelled boxes, my suitcases ready for my big move. I’m just days away from a new life abroad with my boyfriend, Ben.
No one knows the real reason I’m desperate to leave.
My best friend, Lena, is throwing me a leaving party. A celebration, to say goodbye. Champagne to toast my farewell. Speeches, full of fond memories.
No one knows what I’m running from.
Then another black rose appears, dragging up thirteen years of buried memories. My passport goes missing. The very people I am trying to escape from turn up to our house.
Someone knows what I did.
This party was meant to be the first night of the rest of my life – but now I don’t know if I’ll see tomorrow.
Someone knows my secret. They’re in my home, at my party, and they’re making me pay for it.
Psychological thrillers don’t get more addictive or gasp-worthy than this! Fans of K.L. Slater, The Girl on the Train and The Wife Between Us will love this unputdownable page-turner.
Advance Praise
Readers absolutely love Lesley Sanderson’s twisted thrillers:
‘WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’ Goodreads Reviewer
‘Loved it… What a brilliant book… I found it very hard to put my Kindle down!’ NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars
‘Brilliant… One of 2019’s best!… Keeps you in suspense until that last page!… A splendid thrill-ride!’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
‘WOW! Just loved this book, a definite page-turner… An excellent read.’ NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars
‘Completely gripping from page one.’ Goodreads Reviewer
‘Wow… A fascinating story that kept me flipping the pages late into the night.’ It’s All About the Thrill
‘Twisty, compelling and brilliant… An edge-of-your-seat, twist-packed thriller with an added dash of poetic justice that had me hooked in from the very first page… captivating the reader throughout her gripping story. Well worth far more than five stars and highly recommended.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
Review
What an intense read, I was captivated from the start. The Leaving Party goes back and forth from what happened at the party back in 2005 when Ava and Lena were teenagers, to present day at Ava’s leaving party, and Ava and Lena’s POV.
Ava is about to leave the country to live with her fiancé Ben, Ava and Lena have been inseparable since they were teens, and more so after events in 2005 when Lena saved Ava’s life, Lena wants to throw a leaving party that will be remembered, planning every last detail. But strange things happen during the party, black roses appearing, who is sending them? Everyone is under suspicion.
All of the time I was reading it I suspected one person, it had to be them surely, oh how wrong I was. It was full of twists and turns not just in the present but in the past too.
Author Bio
Lesley spends her days writing in coffee shops in Kings Cross where she lives and also works as a librarian in a multicultural school. She has lived and worked in Paris and speaks four languages. She attended the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course in 2015/6, and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish fiction prize. Lesley discovered Patricia Highsmith as a teenager and has since been hooked on psychological thrillers. She is particularly interested in the psychology of female relationships.
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ebook from Netgalley, thank you to Bookouture for allowing me to review this book and be a part of the book tour.
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