Glimpse a dark past in Friends Like These

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I have just recently begun Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight. You’ve heard this story before… friends who share a horrible secret gather for a weekend reunion. Trapped by a storm, something happens, and one of them is dead. It is up to the police/detective to sort out all of the misleading clues and lies, probe and tease out the mass of secrets covering secrets to get to the heart of the matter.

So far, a good read. I know the basics of their secret, but not all of the details, and so far have no idea how the get-together ended up with one of them dead and at least one more missing. Which one was killed? (The facial damage means that the victim is not recognizable) Which is on the run, lost in the wilderness, or hiding in the shadows? A classic storyline that, so far, is well done.

“Kind of like a horror movie, and you know the Black friend always dies first
in those.”

“No one’s dying,” I said. “Don’t even joke about that.”

Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like These