Wanting Daisy Dead by Sue Watson – Book Review
“Dear Friend,
You are cordially invited for a weekend to celebrate the 40th birthday of Daisy Harrington.
The birthday girl will sadly not be attending, but her friends will all be there.
Please join us on Friday December 12th at St. Luke’s campus, Exeter, for a weekend of memories. Check in by 5p.m.
We know why you wanted Daisy dead – and if you aren’t at her party, everyone else will know too.
LOVE FROM
THE KILLER QUESTION Podcast”
Thank you Netgalley, Thomas & Mercer, Amazon Publishing, and Sue Watson for providing me with this gifted copy of Wanting Daisy Dead in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed below are my own.
Twenty years earlier, Daisy Harrington was found dead in a cabin on the beach one week after she went missing, a place frequented often by her and her college friends. At the time of her murder, she was in a relationship with her creative writing professor and thus he was the one found guilty of this “crime of passion.” Six months after his own death in his jail cell, all of Daisy’s friends receive a letter in the mail. On Daisy’s birthday, all five of them are invited back to their college dorms by a podcast “The Killer Question”, whose mission is to free innocent people from prison by exposing the true murderers in true crime cases.
The story is extremely suspenseful and captivating because it is told from multiple POVs, so you get an inside perspective into each of Daisy’s friends’ thoughts and memories. The only problem is that each friend has secrets, each one is an unreliable narrator, and each one blames themselves in some way for what happened to Daisy that fateful night. This book keeps you guessing the whole way through, as you comb through the evidence and testimonies alongside the podcast hosts trying to figure out the truth in this “who-done-it” style novel.
If you are a fan of Ruth Ware mystery novels, such as The It Girl, and the Glass Onion / Knives Out films, then this is the mystery book for you!
Overall Rating: 5/5
Plotline: 5/5
Character Development 5/5
World Building 4/5
Atmosphere 5/5
Syntax & Writing Style 5/5
Structure 5/5