Buying Options

Kindle Price:	$8.99
	includes tax, if applicable
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers (AU) This price was set by the publisher.

Redeem a promotion code or gift card

Share <Embed>

The Guest List: From the author of The Hunting Party, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and prize winning mystery thriller in 2021 by [Lucy Foley]

Follow the Author

Lucy Foley

The Guest List: From the author of The Hunting Party, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and prize winning mystery thriller in 2021 Kindle Edition

by Lucy Foley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

55,207 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$8.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$24.12

$23.88

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$16.59

—

Mass Market Paperback

"Please retry"

—

Audio CD, CD, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$58.06

—

The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley – THE PARIS APARTMENT – is available to pre-order now

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller

*Over 1 million copies sold worldwide*
*One of The Times and Sunday Times Crime Books of the Year*
*Goodreads Choice Awards winner for Crime & Mystery 2020*

A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

‘Lucy Foley is really very clever’ Anthony Horowitz
‘Thrilling’ The Times
‘A classic whodunnit’ Kate Mosse
‘Sharp and atmospheric and addictive’ Louise Candlish
‘A furiously twisty thriller’ Clare Mackintosh

On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater.

Old friends.
Past grudges.

Happy families.
Hidden jealousies.

Thirteen guests.
One body.

The wedding cake has barely been cut when one of the guests is found dead. And as a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped.

All have a secret. All have a motive.
One guest won’t leave this wedding alive . . .

Print length

381 pages
Language

English
Publisher

HarperCollins
Publication date

20 February 2020
File size

1098 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Product description

Review

‘Both a classic whodunnit and a very contemporary psychological thriller that left me guessing right to the end – a wonderful read’ Kate Mosse

‘Great fun. Lucy Foley is really very clever’ Anthony Horowitz

‘A very modern Agatha Christie for the new roaring 20s . . . secrets and lies at every turn’ Sarah Pinborough

‘Evoking the great Agatha Christie classics “And Then There Were None” and “Murder on the Orient Express,” . . . Foley builds her suspense slowly and creepily’ New York Times

‘Terrific’ Stylist

‘Whip smart page-turner with skilful characterisation . . . a compelling read’ Jane Shemilt

‘Foley’s second take on the “closed room” murder mystery confirms her status as this generation’s Agatha Christie’ Sunday Express

‘Sharp and atmospheric and addictive – I tore through it!’ Louise Candlish

‘Thoroughly addictive’ Sarah Hughes, I paper

‘I didn’t think Lucy Foley could top The Hunting Party, but she did! I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness l get from curling up with a classic Christie’ Alex Michaelides

‘Nail-biting . . . A fabulous closed room thriller. Lucy Foley is the Agatha Christie for our times’ Kate Hamer

‘It grabs you from the off and keeps you guessing until the very end. A genuine treat of a read’ Heat

‘This is a stunningly brilliant book: writing to die for, compelling characters, and a plot driven by a deep-seated sense of unease. I savoured every secret, every twist and turn’ Dinah Jefferies

I loved The Guest List and gobbled it up in a few sittings . . . A cracking story brilliantly told’ Ryan Tubridy

‘Compelling, entertaining and highly enjoyable, Lucy knocks this one out of the park’ Liz Nugent

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description

The Sunday Times bestseller and the biggest crime thriller of 2020 from the author of The Hunting Party

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07VBBWN2N
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins (20 February 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1098 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 381 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0063215381

Best Sellers Rank: 345 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 7 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Books)
- 14 in Horror (Books)
- 22 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews:
55,207 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Lucy Foley

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Lucy Foley is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party and The Guest List, with two and a half million copies sold worldwide. Lucy’s thrillers have also hit the New York Times and the Irish Times bestseller lists, been shortlisted for the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, selected as one of The Times and Sunday Times Crime Books of the Year, and The Guest List was a Reese’s Book Club choice. Lucy’s novels have been translated into multiple languages and her journalism has appeared in publications such as Sunday Times Style, Grazia, ES Magazine, Vogue US, Elle, Tatler, Marie Claire and more.

Say hello at www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow Lucy on Twitter @LucyFoleyTweets and Instagram @LucyFoleyAuthor

Lucy Foley
13,215
Kindle Edition
in Private Investigator Mysteries
1 offer from $12.99
Lucy Foley
14,889
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $9.99
Alex Michaelides
97,241
Kindle Edition
in Techno-Thrillers
1 offer from $11.99
Lucy Foley
709
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $9.99
Karin Slaughter
10,830
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $6.99
Lucy Foley
471
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $8.99

Customer reviews

5 star		33%
4 star		41%
3 star		21%
2 star		4%
1 star		2%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Paul

"No thanks!"

Reviewed in Australia on 11 March 2021

Verified Purchase

First time reader of this author. A wedding on a bleak island. Really! As if. Didn't they think to check the weather projections! Character building scored a star, but couldn't find any further aspect to dish out the accolades. No suspense to keep the pages turning in anticipation. The foul language & sordid lust scenes left me with a foul taste. Won't be back.

8 people found this helpful

Helpful

heather harry

The Guest List..by Lucy Foley /A modern day 'Agatha Christie ish style' whodunnit!

Reviewed in Australia on 3 May 2020

Verified Purchase

Jules and Will are getting married!
Julia Keegan, magazine publisher and Will Slater, TV action star, have engaged Aoife, a wedding planner to organise this memorable event, AND very memorable it ends up being!

Set on an isolated island off the coast of Ireland, this is sure to be the wedding of the year. Aoife, and her caterer husband Freddie, will be hosting the first ever wedding at their newly established resort.
The story begins the day before the wedding, as the guests begin to arrive by boat, but with different points of view, going back over time.
It seems that everyone has a secret.
The reception is in full swing, a massive storm tears across the island, and the lights go out..
A body is found..

I found this book difficult to put down. The twists , turns and motives kept me guessing. It seems there was a good reason for so many to want the victim dead. A fantastic whodunnit!
My first book by Lucy Foley, but I am just about to begin my second!

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

Amy

Just the thriller I needed!

Reviewed in Australia on 9 January 2021

Verified Purchase

Whoa. I went into this book expecting a thrilling plot and the characters to move that along. I was not expecting characters who I empathised with, rooted for, and hated all at the same time. The characters here are deeply developed each with a back story that unwinds slowly through each of the point-of-view chapters. The atmosphere of the wild, untamed Irish island playing host to the elaborate luxury wedding of a digital magazine entrepreneur and her TV star fiance is a contrast that shows in the characters too: much of the guest list are rich, good ol' boys from a private school attended by the groom, but under their polish they all are wild and together practically feral. The female characters in this novel are layered and complex. Jules, the bride, who I hated as much as I understood her. Olivia, her half-sister, who hides a secret that is eating her alive. Hannah, the plus-one who provides an illuminating outsider's point-of-view narrative. And Aoife, the wedding planner, who has secrets of her own that bring her to the wilds of Ireland. I highly recommend this novel for an escapist read. I couldn't put it down!

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Couldn't finish it.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2021

Verified Purchase

DNF 34%.

I really wanted to enjoy this story, but I struggled to engage with any of the characters. The best character in the entire novel was the Island on which the Wedding/Murder takes place. It was haunting and isolated.

The withholding of the murder victims identity was a little too clever by half. If I read a whodunnit, I want to know who it was that was killed. It's very well written, but it's not for me. On the other hand, I'm sure many others will enjoy the cat and mouse game the author is playing.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

A cleverly constructed island-based mystery

Reviewed in Australia on 27 August 2020

Verified Purchase

"Everything seems changed on this island. It's as though the place is doing it, that we've been brought here for a reason." (The Guest List, p. 340)
Lucy Foley continues the grand tradition of island-bound mysteries pioneered by Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None, Evil Under the Sun) and carried forward by such luminaries as P.D. James (The Lighthouse, The Skull Beneath the Skin).
Having enjoyed Foley's first excursion into the crime/mystery genre, The Hunting Party (2018), I was keen to read The Guest List when it was released. My feeling is that this book shows the author's growing assuredness writing in this genre.
Close family and friends gather for a wedding at the exclusive Folly on Inis an Amplóra (which we're told translates to Cormorant Island), a fictional island off the coast from Connemara, south-western Eire. Bride Julia "Jules" Keegan and Groom Will Slater are an attractive and high-powered couple, but both have their fair share of family issues and skeletons from the past. The picturesque but windswept island, surrounded by crumbling cliffs, freezing waters and dangerous currents, provides an appropriately dramatic venue for simmering tensions and old grudges to come to the fore, as the bridal party gather for a dinner on the night before the wedding. Even the land itself isn't safe with perilous peat bogs ("turf") to trap the unwary and local stories of hauntings by past islanders who died gruesome deaths at the hand of invaders.
There are strong similarities between the books, in terms of structure and style, which is perhaps not entirely surprising. Like The Hunting Party, The Guest List also features a multi-perspective narrative, and a short-period split time device - every few chapters, we flash forward to read a tantalising glimpse from the period immediately after the discovery of the murder. The vast majority of the novel is focussed on the build-up to the crime, the relationships and interractions of the characters which form the basis for someone acting upon their murderous intent - but who? As with The Hunting Party, Foley withholds the identity of the victim from the reader until the latter stages, adding to the tension and mystery considerably. It was only at about the 3/4 point of the book that I formed a fairly clear idea of who was most likely to end up dead!
I felt the development of the characters was thorough and convincing, and the multi-layered plot and tangle of motives excellent. Foley uses misdirection and reveals very cleverly to maintain tension and mystery right to the last few pages. The short chapters and multiple view points made this a fast and stimulating book to read.
Highly recommended - I can't wait for Ms. Foley's next release!

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Thought it would've been better

Reviewed in Australia on 15 September 2021

Verified Purchase

Cliched and predictable. The constant shift in narrative across characters irritated me - especially when they all sounded like the one person narrating. Characters lacked any depth - had the potential to go a bit deeper into their layers and some of the stories but it didn't get there. Would've been good to get inside the heads of some of the characters that were left out. The actions of these adults were questionable, immature and unrealistic. Had the 'twist' worked out early on. Ending wasn't really satisfying and ended abruptly without any real closure.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Annavee

A juicy read

Reviewed in Australia on 18 March 2020

Verified Purchase

I liked the mysterious sense of place, the curious family relationships and the all the irritating old boys. I love feeling judgemental (don't judge!) of unlikeable characters, and enjoyed the interplay between storytellers. A very intriguing and enjoyable read with delicious writing.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Fionac

Utter Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2020

Verified Purchase

I love crime fiction and I have read a lot of it, but, dear God, this book is terrible. The characters were stereotypes and mostly unpleasant and I hoped that most of them would be bumped off. Towards the end of the book I just skimmed each page as it was so predictable and over written. Please people, buy a book by Sara Paretsky instead of this nonsense. Oh and I guessed the ending half-way through the book.

260 people found this helpful

C. Murphy

A truly awful book with a big dollop of deja vue , mind the plot holes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2020

Verified Purchase

Apart from a story too familiar (!) I mostly hated this swiss cheese of a plot-hole filled book. First the idea that someone like the main character Jules, with her glam big city lifestyle and wealth/fame, choosing to hold her wedding in such a godforsaken place is quite laughable. There were several attempts to explain this away - the 50% discount for eg., received in return for featuring the island in her magazine; the way this place was described, you would have to pay ME to hold even a tea party there. Its apparently a tiny Island off the Irish coast, a place well known for its balmy seas and clement weather right? the island itself is an almost continuous peat bog which is described more like an actual swamp/bog/quicksand kind of deal where you can get sucked down to your death at any moment and the rest is lethal sheer cliffs and rocks. It apparently did not occur to the island owner and event holder that safety barriers might be a good thing to stop guests being sucked into the bog. Of course the idea that people at a party, in an unknown location with a MASSIVE unpredictable and mostly invisible hazard could perish by walking from one building to the next seemed perfectly fine. Ridiculous.

Next, as horrible as this location sounded, it seemed that at least 2 of the guests actually preferred to sit in a partially subterranean cave subject to flooding, too dark to see the back, full of weird noises, damp, dank and with unknown inhabitants and AT NIGHT !! ... than any other comfortable indoor place.

THEN, there was this odd disconnection where the author apparently forgot that she had said that only a select few would be staying in the Folly overnight, but then had hundreds of guests arriving for the day, events merging into the evening and night and no way for them to leave the island! where were they all going? was there a secret submarine evacuation planned, or a bridge she forgot to mention? as it happened, suspense was created by a violent, unpredicted/totally predictable storm which would have made a sea evac by anything other than a Naval destroyer impossible anyway.

Forgetting the logistics, the characters were so awful, I hoped they would all murder each other. All the suspenseful storylines were childishly obvious, the awful secrets eked out a child could have guessed and the villain I guessed about 5 pages in. I really liked the character Severine, because she said nothing and did nothing and was apparently part of the scenery.

123 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

Never again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2020

Verified Purchase

The book began good it was the firstever pre order i did but i will be pre ordering on kindle again but not this author as it was very weak it didnt grab me and would not read it ever again

76 people found this helpful

BeMoreCat

Foley strikes gold again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2020

Verified Purchase

Intriguing and captivating. I think that some of the reviewers who gave this book one star may have bad intentions. Read it and judge for yourself. I thought it was great!

63 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Predictable, boring mess

Reviewed in the United States on 18 June 2020

Verified Purchase

Love a good mystery. This was not one. It is full of cliched, awful characters with no likeability and little sympathy. Told from multiple points of view, it is a muddled mess. Red herrings are tossed in almost as afterthoughts. And I figured out the killer about 1/3 of the way in. The book is so boring and so cliched, I cannot believe it is a best seller. A vain bride, even more vain groom and 150 drunk wedding guests on a remote Irish island. What could possibly go wrong? The fact I dropped $14.99 on this.

Buying Options

Follow the Author

The Guest List: From the author of The Hunting Party, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and prize winning mystery thriller in 2021 Kindle Edition

The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley – THE PARIS APARTMENT – is available to pre-order now