Pretty Guilty Women

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It's a good and disturbing psychological thriller. Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies.
At the luxurious Serenity Resort on the Californian coast, guests arrive ready to celebrate the wedding of the year. Along with those four women. All seems mysterious even after their arrival. They're close friends of the bride. Everything was going perfect but then something went terribly wrong. Just twenty-four hours later, a man is found dead at the hotel. In the ensuing investigation, each of these women confess to the crime, insisting they acted alone.
They all are saying that they did the murder and acted alone. But the police knows that they're telling a lie. How would police catch the real culprit? Why are these women telling lies? What's the reason behind?
I was hooked by the ending of first chapter. I completed it in a sitting. I was feeling like I'm seeing a sequel of Big Little Lies.
Thanks to NetGalley and Sphere for a digital copy.

The wedding Of the year is being hosted at Serenity Resort

Amongst them are four women, good friends of the bride. All harbouring their own secret

Twenty four hours later, a fed body turns up. Each of the four women confess to the murder...but why???

This book is absolutely perfect for fans of big little lies.

This book was a great read with a satisfying ending and I can just seen it on our screens soon.

This is a hell of a psychological suspense. A must read.
At the luxurious Serenity Resort on the Californian coast, guests arrive ready to celebrate the wedding of the year. But things are about to go horribly wrong .Among them are four brilliant women, close friends of the bride. Each harbours a secret she'd do anything to protect. Just twenty-four hours later, a man is found dead at the hotel. In the ensuing investigation, each of these women confess to the crime, insisting they acted alone.
The plot was brilliant and i would really highly recommend this book.
Thanks to NetGalley and Headline for giving me an advance copy of this brilliant psychological thriller.

Thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK/Sphere for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. #PrettyGuiltyWomen #NetGalley

Utterly compelling and addictive - I was hooked from the first page. This novel is the very definition of gripping. I literally could not put it down. In 'Pretty Guilty Women', Gina LaManna has written a novel full of verve and style, with strong female protagonists and plot to die for... quite literally. Four women confess to murdering a man at the Serenity Spa Resort on the Californian coast. Simple? Well not quite. Not only is the identity of the murdered man an enigma for much of the novel, but each women swears they were the sole perpetrator of the crime. Interspersed with vignettes from police interviews and tantalising glimpses of the characters backstories, LaManna, like a true master of her art, teases and tantalises the reader until the stunning, denouement. This is edge-of-your-seat stuff. This novel is a standout not only for its perfectly calibrated prose, finely woven, richly textured plot, but also the depth of characterisation of the main protagonists. Each woman, yes, because women dominate this novel, are painted with the fine brushstrokes of an astute observer of the human condition. Ginger, Kate, Whitney, Lulu and the gang seem to defy the various adjectives and verbs that make up their fictional existence, such is their realism. As such, LaManna has written a story full of style and substance that oozes suspense and that indefinable something that makes 'Pretty Guilty Women' a one sitting read. The comparisons with 'Big Little Lies' and 'Desperate Housewives' are apt, but there is a fair amount of Agatha Christie-esque tropes in this book, too. Admittedly, this book has a glossy, 21st century feel to it that zings with, subtle, yet unrepressed feminist themes. This gave the novel a depth that is missing from most mystery novels and I savoured every page of this fine author's writing. Gina LaManna is quite simply the 'It girl' of the 21st century thriller.

A definite hit for 2020.

Thoroughly enjoyable psychological thriller with a great group dynamic of women all confessing to the same murder.

This is well plotted as the author takes you back to see how they all came together and ended up embroiled in a crime- are they all covering for each other, do they all genuinely believe they are guilty, questions you'll ask yourself whilst banging through the read to see what's what.

Whilst I can't in all honesty say this novel has anything new or improved about it within it's genre that didn't stop it being a well written, well plotted and cleverly layered story.

Recommended.