The Last Good Weekend

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Five old friends. One weekend at the mill. By Sunday the host was in the pond, and the police had my name. ONE LAST GOOD WEEKEND. MILLBROOK, 19–21 FEBRUARY. PLEASE. Twenty years after they left sixth form, Tavy Rathbone invites the old friends back to Millbrook, the Cotswold mill where her little brother drowned on the night of their leavers' party. Naomi Aske nearly doesn't go. She's a GP with a ten-year-old son and no spare weekends, and she has never known why Tavy stopped speaking to her the summer Laurie died. But Tavy's face has changed. She isn't drinking. She wants everyone there. And she wants to know, once and for all, who went down to the water with him that night. By Sunday morning Tavy is in the millpond. A thread of Naomi's green scarf is caught on the sluice. An email Tavy sent at three in the morning names her. And Tavy had written to the police in January to accuse her. Only one of the old friends seems to be on Naomi's side: Lydia, the barrister, who always knows exactly what to say. Then a solicitor in a bow tie delivers a letter, addressed to Lydia, in a dead woman's handwriting. It begins: You're going to burn this. The Last Good Weekend is a twisty domestic thriller told by two women who were once best friends, and by the one who planned it all. • Short chapters, three narrators, and a twist you can go back and find every clue for. • No sexual content and no violence on the page. The danger is in what old friends will stay silent about. • Set in the present-day Cotswolds, Stroud and Bristol over one February and March. Perfect for readers of Lucy Foley, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.