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BOOK INFO
Title: The Wasp Trap
Author: Mark Edwards
Publisher: Atria Books
Publish Date: September 16, 2025
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Series: na
My Rating: 3/5
BOOK BLURB
A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing.
But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one-by-one.
It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.
MY REVIEW
Six old friends reunite at a dinner party. Twenty-five years earlier, they all worked with a professor on developing an online dating site based on psychological testing. The dinner party takes a drastic turn when they are locked inside and held at gunpoint until they reveal their darkest secrets.
The Wasp Trap is a locked room mystery told using multiple points of view. The friends worked together on a project that ended abruptly years earlier. They all have secrets, some darker than others. Throughout the evening, secrets from the past are revealed.
The Wasp Trap is a clever mystery. Dark and suspenseful.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.