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The Weekend Guests

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28th August 2025

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781408716274

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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.

Reviews

The Critic
An impressive debut . . . A brilliant murder story
Sarah Strohmeyer, author of We Love to Entertain
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
Alex Gray, Sunday Times bestselling author
Utterly brilliant. Characters and setting drawn with meticulous care, and plotting as twisted as any crime reader would desire!
Press and Journal
Another triumph
Victoria Selman, Sunday Times bestselling author of TRULY DARKLY DEEPLY
Compelling and compulsive. A perfectly crafted 'just one more chapter' read. I loved it!
Lisa Ballantyne, author of THE INNOCENT ONE
A fascinating cast of characters, and the ghosts of relationships past, combine to make this an unputdownable, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Highly recommended
Fresh Fiction.com
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:
Daily Mail
Deftly told . . . An accomplished debut and a fascinating study of the dangerous power of obsessive attraction
Peterborough Telegraph
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
Woman’s World
Fans of Lucy Foley's twisty and suspenseful novels will devour this heart-racing tale by Liza North
Scots Magazine
Will have you turning pages long into the night
Boston Herald
Might be ti­tled "The Weekend from Hell" as murder, guilt and insanity run amok among a circle of once-close college friends
Jera’s Jamboree blog
Oh what a ride! The Weekend Guests is nerve-wracking, deliciously dark and I loved it!