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The Search Party

Hannah Richell

Start date: June 1, 2024

Finish date: June 30, 2024

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Dec 17, 2023 Brenda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: aussie-authors, net-galley, 3500-2023, mystery, read-on-kindle, suspense, 2024-release, thriller, arc, own-read

Annie and Max Kingsley had settled into their new country residence on the cliffs of Cornwall with their troubled twelve year old son Kip. Setting up a glamping site for the tourist season, the two of them wanted to test it out so invited their old friends for the weekend. There were quite a few people once they'd arrived - eight adults plus their children, plus the handyman who was nearby in case of emergencies.

Sitting around the campfire, toasting marshmallows the first night, the hilarity was ...more

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Jan 12, 2024 Helen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: review-copy-from-netgalley

I do love Hannah Richell’s stories and this one is a change of genre but so very good, this one was unputdownable for me, a fabulous setting, so many characters come to life on the pages some good some not so good, what happens when five friends and their families get together for a glamping weekend in the wilds of Cornwall?

When Annie and Max Kingsley and their twelve year old son Kip decide to leave the rat race of London and start a glamping business in Cornwall, they want to have a dry run be ...more

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Feb 17, 2024 Rina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A group of family friends spent a weekend together at a Cornwall glamping site for a long-needed reunion and a relaxing weekend. But soon tensions arose between the children (and subsequently their parents) and explosive secrets came to light, as a sudden storm closed in and someone went missing.

The premise of this one somehow reminded me of One of Those Mothers which I read last year, even though they were of different genres.

Initially, there wasn’t a single likeable character in the book for m ...more

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Nov 24, 2023 Paula Phillips rated it liked it

As a reviewer, it's perks like this that I love so much. That I get to read books months before they are released and published, makes me feel special. I had seen recently The Search Party on another Instagrammer's page and they talked about how they loved it and it was in their top 2023 list of thrillers. I knew I had it on my Kindle, so decided to give it a read and I enjoyed it. Not on my top list but was still a good read and an enjoyable one. The only downside I felt for myself in this book ...more

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