The Weekend Guests
On sale
28th August 2025
Price: £9.99
Genre
A weekend on the wild, beautiful Dorset coast. Seven adults, six kids. A childminder, the ultimate special treat.
It should be perfect: old friends, a stunning house, champagne and wind-strung beaches. But it isn’t. Relationships won’t stay still. Memories won’t stay put. Then the parents take a night out, and come back to catastrophe.
Fourteen years earlier, five students in Edinburgh made an irrevocable mistake.
One they thought no-one else knew about. Until now.
It should be perfect: old friends, a stunning house, champagne and wind-strung beaches. But it isn’t. Relationships won’t stay still. Memories won’t stay put. Then the parents take a night out, and come back to catastrophe.
Fourteen years earlier, five students in Edinburgh made an irrevocable mistake.
One they thought no-one else knew about. Until now.
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Reviews
An impressive debut . . . A brilliant murder story
Sucks you in like a deadly riptide on a dangerous British coast. Tense, mysterious and atmospheric with the perfect touch of creepiness to keep you turning pages late into the night, this is the intelligent thriller you've been craving
Utterly brilliant. Characters and setting drawn with meticulous care, and plotting as twisted as any crime reader would desire!
Another triumph
Compelling and compulsive. A perfectly crafted 'just one more chapter' read. I loved it!
A fascinating cast of characters, and the ghosts of relationships past, combine to make this an unputdownable, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Highly recommended
A dark, twisty, nail-biting thriller that keeps readers guessing . . . get lost in this atmospheric and creepy getaway that will literally have you hanging on the edge of a cliff
Previous praise for Liza North:
Deftly told . . . An accomplished debut and a fascinating study of the dangerous power of obsessive attraction
Tensions lurk beneath the surface and dark secrets can't be contained in a tense thriller told through dual timelines and different viewpoints as the suspense builds
Fans of Lucy Foley's twisty and suspenseful novels will devour this heart-racing tale by Liza North
Will have you turning pages long into the night
Might be titled "The Weekend from Hell" as murder, guilt and insanity run amok among a circle of once-close college friends
Oh what a ride! The Weekend Guests is nerve-wracking, deliciously dark and I loved it!