The Fury

Lana Farrar is a reclusive former film star and one of the most famous women alive. Each year she invites her closest friends to leave the English weather behind and spend Easter on her private Greek island. This year, the gathering ends in a killing that the tabloids later seize on.

The story is told in the first person by Elliot Chase, who speaks directly to a reader he assumes already knows something of the case. He sets out to correct the record. In his account the affair is a murder, but he suggests it may be a love story at heart.

The setting is closed and tense. The wind cuts the island off, and the guests are stuck there overnight. Beneath the long friendships among them sit hatred and a wish for revenge, and the evening turns into a contest of wits between people who know each other well.

This is a psychological thriller with a locked-circle structure: a famous host, a small group of suspects and one body by morning. Expect a teasing, confiding narrator, a plot built on twists, and a night that ends in violence and death.