SUN. SCANDAL. SECRETS. IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO END IN MURDER . . .

Get ready for the most scandalous read of the summer . . .

'It is DELICIOUS' MARIAN KEYES

‘Such gossipy, naughty fun’ LUCY FOLEY

‘Wicked, clever, sinfully good’ KEVIN KWAN

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The island’s where you go to have fun.
Miles of beaches and boardwalks.
The sun’s hot. The games are competitive.
And the best liaisons are illicit.

The same rich families have been
coming every summer for years.
And whether it’s on the tennis court, or in the
bedroom, old rivalries gain a new frisson.

Then the body is found.
Is it murder? Has it all, finally, gone too far?
But if so – how do you stop?

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‘Brilliantly written, wryly funny, excitingly paced’ DAILY MAIL

‘A sizzling sin-fest. The perfect page-turning read’ GRAZIA

‘An addictive thriller’ NEW YORK TIMES

"[A] cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written, wryly funny, excitingly paced" - DAILY MAIL

"Entertaining. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty" - GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

"Awful rich people on their summer holidays having affairs and secret money worries, it is DELICIOUS" - MARIAN KEYES

"An intelligent, stylist, and compelling read that you won't be able to put down. Packed with gossip, slander and bad bad deeds and I enjoyed every salacious word of it. Fans of The White Lotus will devour this in one sitting" - 17 Degrees

"Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People" - SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

"A sizzling sin-fest. The perfect page-turning read" - GRAZIA UK BOOK CLUB

"Darkly funny and delicious" - My Weekly

"[A] delicious summer read" - HELLO!

"[A] scintillating debut... Wickedly entertaining" - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Think Succession by the sea as a group of entitled New Yorkers decamp to their holiday homes on Fire Island so they can spend the summer playing tennis and behaving absolutely atrociously" - RED MAGAZINE

"Pour a long cool glass, sit back and watch the upper echelons of New York behave badly in their lazy summer playground. [The] perfect poolside read" - Sainsbury's Magazine

"[An] entertaining read" - Good Housekeeping, Best books to take on holiday 2024