The Unwedding

Agatha Christie meets The White Lotus in Condie’s adult debut. When a mudslide prevents anyone from accessing or leaving a luxury Big Sur resort, it means the guests are trapped with a murderer. Among the guests is Ellery, a newly divorced woman who’d planned the trip as a twentieth anniversary celebration but instead is traveling alone. Upon her arrival, Ellery is wounded to discover most of the resort’s guests are there for a wedding—but before the event can take place, Ellery finds the groom’s dead body in the pool. She starts investigating, but before she gets any answers, another guest turns up dead. The suspenseful plot kept me turning pages, but I especially appreciated the poignant passages on love, loss, and grief.