The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, 2024
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A wellness retreat opens on the Dorset coast: white linen, clean food, old grudges. The village remembers everything the guests are paying to forget.
Feels like dread, wonder and serenity. About society.
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The kind of drama that only a very comfortable life can produce.
Rich people problems. Ruby says they manage to make everything into a drama because when you have no real difficulty in your life you end up creating your own. Lucy Foley.Foley spent years as a fiction editor in London publishing and wrote three historical novels before The Hunting Party turned her into a crime writer.
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Questions readers ask
- What is The Midnight Feast like?
- Feels like dread, wonder and serenity. About society.
- What should I read after The Midnight Feast?
- If you liked The Midnight Feast, try Dear Debbie (Freida McFadden), The Couple Next Door (Shari Lapena) and Final Girls (Riley Sager).
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A domestic-help column for the wife who has run out of patience.
The next time your husband wakes you up from his snoring, take your pillow off the bed, and hold it over his face. Then with your hands, apply medium to firm pressure over the center of the pillow.
Dear Debbie · Freida McFadden
The moment a quiet house becomes the wrong kind of quiet.
Anne feels her scream inside her own head and reverberating off the walls-her scream is everywhere. Then she falls silent and stands in front of the empty crib, rigid, her hand to her mouth. Marco fumbles with the light switch. They both stare at the empty crib where their baby should be. It is impossible that she not be there. There is no way Cora could have gotten out of the crib by herself. She is barely six months old.
The Couple Next Door · Shari Lapena
When the details become a way of not looking.
I understand that urge for more information, that longing for details. But in this case, I’m fine without them. I know what happened at Pine Cottage. I don’t need to remember exactly how it happened. Because here’s the thing about details-they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation. They become the gaudy necklace that hides the tracheotomy scar.
Final Girls · Riley Sager
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