This is a is a darkly funny, sharply feminist read as we explore the friends being bound by a messy secret and them coming back together to find out who knows their secret.

I really wanted to love this book, but unfortunately I just couldn’t get into it. It took a very long time to get into the main plot, and by that time I frankly had lost interest. I think it would have been much better if it had been shorter.

ha,firstly what an excellent title for a novel and sure did pull me in. the cover only adds to the intrigue i got to read this story and im so glad i did. the writing was on point and it felt like Marie was skipping us along through the pages as i wanted to know more and more of both the characters and story which they find themselves.
this book is about our four friends and main characters who initially meet in school but then are tied together but also forced to part by one terrible secret. we get to know the story via all of their Pov and i could tell all the characters apart and it really did feel like a different voice was being written for each time.
the pacing is excellent as we are fed more of the story via key moments about the characters lives and how they came to be where they are today. we are given tension on a slow boil as we make our way through the unravelling until you are given the ending that surprised me in all the delicious ways a thriller can do for you.
i also really enjoyed Marie's writing and how even though she wrote those somewhat unlikable woman, if anything it made me want to read more and made it almost more exciting to see what they were doing now and what they did in the past that was refusing to stay buried. it also made me wonder who would/might turn on who when the blackmail started. i had my own theories, ill let you see if you had your and whether you were right.

Dark, twisted and compelling this is an excellent story of complicated and difficult women. If the chips were down, would you bind together?

Sophia, Safa, Ella, Ajola and Caoimhe have been friends since school. They are difficult, unlikeable women; funny, sharp and clever ones – the sort that would have probably ended up burned at the stake a few hundred years ago.

When one of them is about to be framed for murder, they inextricably bind their fates together via some bin bags, a spade and a promise never to tell. Afterwards, they decide to separate to ensure the safety of their secret, leaving each of them to navigate the daily challenges of womanhood alone.

But when an anonymous blackmailer threatens to expose them years later, the group must come back together to get their stories straight – and find out who is behind their torment. But is it already too late

Four female friends, who initially met in school, find themselves unexpectedly bound by a problematic secret.

And although they somehow manage to keep their promises to one another, when an anonymous source shows up and begins to send them threatening messages about revealing their secrets, they realise that not everything can be reliably left in the past...

More than the story itself, the characters here were interesting, and the humour is appealing.

I Know Where You Buried Your Husband wasn't the best book for me. I felt like it took too long to get into the swing of things before ultimately deciding where it wanted to go. It's a shame, really, as I was quite looking forward to this one.

I really wanted to like this and loved the premise but I didn't connect with the writing style or the characters. I had to keep forcing myself to keep reading and wasn't enjoying the experience. I gave up at 45%.
I've given 4 stars because it felt unfair to rate lower when I didn't see the book through to the end.