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The last guest : a novel

Little, Tess (author.).

Summary: "A glamorous birthday dinner in Los Angeles ends with the famous host dead and every guest under suspicion in this dark, cinematic suspense debut reminiscent of an Agatha Christie page-turner crossed with and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. There's more than one way to capture a life. When actress Elspeth Bell attends the fiftieth birthday party of her ex-husband Richard Bryant, the famous Hollywood director who launched her career, all she wants is to pass unnoticed through the glamorous crowd in his sprawling Los Angeles mansion. Instead, there are just seven other guests and Richard's pet octopus, Persephone, watching over them from her tank as the intimate party grows more surreal (and rowdy) by the hour. Come morning, Richard is dead--and all of the guests are suspects. In the weeks that follow, each of the guests come under suspicion: the school friend, the studio producer, the actress, the actor, the new partner, the manager, the cinematographer, and even Elspeth herself. What starts out as a locked-room mystery soon reveals itself to be much more complicated, as dark stories from Richard's past surface, colliding with memories of their marriage that Elspeth vowed never to revisit. Elspeth begins to wonder not just who killed Richard, but why these eight guests were invited, and what sort of man would desire to possess a creature as mysterious and unsettling as Persephone. From the Hollywood Hills to the marshes of Norfolk, The Last Guest is a stylish exploration of power--the power of memory, the power of perception, the power of one person over another--that will leave you questioning every truth you tell yourself"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0593238079
  • ISBN: 9780593238073
  • Physical Description: 325 pages ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]

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General Note:
Originally published in the United Kingdom as The octopus by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company, London in 2020.
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction
Octopuses Fiction
Murder Investigation California Los Angeles Fiction
Divorced women Fiction
Control (Psychology) Fiction
Abuse of administrative power Fiction
Murder Investigation Fiction
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Abington Community Library MYS LITTLE (Text) 50687011747253 Adult Fiction Available -
Coplay Public Library FIC LIT (Text) 31961000269098 Adult Fiction Available -
Exeter Community Library LIT (Text) 33249024805578 Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library MYS FIC LITTLE TESS (Text) 35740635781123 Mystery Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Mystery Little (Text) 39427103608758 Fiction Room: Adult Mystery Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity FIC LIT LAS 2021 (Text) 31001101834035 Adult Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Little (Text) 33223008718073 Fiction Available -
Saxton Community Library F LIT (Text) 3SAXT000333909 Adult Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library LITTLE, TESS (Text) 34455006833962 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library f (Text) 33062009505943 Adult Fiction Available -

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