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A wedding on a windswept island off the coast of Ireland should be the event of the year. Jules Keegan, a driven magazine publisher, is marrying Will Slater, a charismatic television survival star, before a select gathering of university friends, family, and staff. The setting is spectacular and remote — reachable only by boat, with a ruined chapel, a peat bog, and no way off once the weather turns.

As the champagne flows, the polished surface begins to crack. Old rivalries, buried humiliations, and secrets that several guests would kill to keep resurface across the long day and into the night. When the lights go out during the reception and a body is discovered, everyone on the island becomes a suspect — because almost everyone had a reason.

Told through multiple points of view and a timeline that circles between the days before the wedding and the night of the murder, Lucy Foley's bestselling thriller is a modern take on the Agatha Christie closed-circle mystery: atmospheric, sharply attuned to class and status, and built to keep readers guessing until the final reveal.