Truth Truth Lie

Amira never wanted to spend the weekend with her husband's university friends, but the invitation is impossible to refuse: a private Scottish island, vintage champagne, a wood-fired hot tub, a joint fortieth birthday for a group of people who have known each other since they were twenty.

After dinner they play 'two truths and a lie', posting anonymous statements into a box. Old resentments start to surface — and then an extra slip appears, one nobody claims. Everyone here has killed someone. There is no way off this island. You will all either kill or be killed here. One of these statements is a lie.

There is no phone signal and no boat until Monday. Claire McGowan traps her cast on their expensive island and lets the secrets out one by one, in a closed-circle thriller where the worst thing about the group may not be the person watching them from outside it.