A fun mystery that engaged the reader and really kept you guessing on who to trust/believe. I will be looking for more books by this author :)

I enjoyed reading this book. The mystery was interesting and kept me guessing until almost the end. I would enjoy reading more from this author

A fun mystery. I really didn’t know who to trust in this book. I loved and hated the characters at the same time. A good story. Worth reading x

Pretty Guilty Women is a fantastic mystery with well developed characters and a great storyline. A must read for the year. I enjoyed reading this book.

I loved this book! It was so original, intriguing, chilling, and fun to read. I had no clue what exactly had taken place and why it was going the way it was, but kept guessing! I truly thought it was a riveting read with lots of drama, chills, thrills, and shocks!
Will be highly recommending to the members of Chapter Chatter Pub!

A really good novel, with a zany premise! This was a fun fast paced read, with engaging characters and writing. Overall I liked it a lot!

I enjoyed the story in the four different women involved. It was different than other books out there. Well done

Four women who are friends and all confess to the same murder. Why? This was a fast paced book and a great beach read. The characters were enjoyable and they kept me engaged.
Many thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Oh I just loved this book!! Put this in your beach bag. I read this in one sitting. Quick read and very intriguing. It’s a whodunnit kinda book.
Loved the characters all four women.
Well done. Highly recommend!!!

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC copy of this book. It's niteresting story about 4 women confessinf to do the same crime. A lot of fun and some crazy twists. I wish it was a little deeper on characterization, but it wasn't bad. Good summer read.

Such a fun read! PRETTY GUILTY WOMEN is about five women attending a wedding at a sumptuous resort. when a man dies, four of them claim responsibility. But who really killed him and why? While the mystery is intriguing and the reveal unexpected, it was the well-rounded multidimensional characters of each of the women that kept me engaged. there were parts of each woman that I could identify with and I felt compassion for each of them. Wonderful book to read on vacation!

It is a wedding where four friends from school meet after a long time. A man however dies and found women confess to the murder. The start is interesting and the pace is good, keeping up the suspense well till the end.

Whitney is getting married. While she, Kate, Ginger and Emily were friends, they have not really been in the best of relations since some time. All of them have their problems – Kate is increasingly desperate to have a child; Ginger is a mother of three kids and struggles to manage them and Emily veers towards depression with nothing seeming to work since long for her in life. All of them decide to attend Whitney’s wedding after some hesitation hoping it will give them a chance to rekindle their relationships. The story converges the past with the present very well, picking up from the time they were close and later drifted apart. At the event, they also meet elderly Lulu who has some concerns of her own regarding her married life. They run into Sidney at the marriage, who is caring for a young child. And then this murder happens.

The overall storyline, buildup, convergence of the past & present, and the pace is good. The plot itself has some weak elements in it though.

Well worth a read especially for the layered buildup of the story.

My rating: 3.5 / 5.

Fans of Liane Moriarty would love this one! It's a twisty, fun thriller that kept me guessing. A lot of fun.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

One wedding, one murder, four women, four confessions. The math doesn’t add up in this charming thriller. The book centers around four different women with different lives and perspectives who all meet at the wedding of Whitney. Most of the main characters are college friends who have lost touch after many years as their lives have moved in separate directions. Once at the wedding, college friends Ginger, Kate and Emily make friends with Lulu, an order woman with “husbands to spare” who thinks she has finally found mister right in husband number 3. The mysterious Sydney and her child comes onto the scene and soon the woman are sharing drinks, and laughs, and once a man is found dead, a big secret? Pretty Guilty Women was an easy read and one I’d recommend for anyone looking for a story of rivalry, life’s trials, crime and friendship.

No matter how many times I thought I had it figured out, I was wrong. I loved this twisty book that kept me reading and kept me guessing. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this ARC!! 4 stars!

“Four Women. Four Confessions. One Murder.

Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime ― alone.”

This book kept me interested but it definitely was not as fast paced or twisty as most thrillers I’ve read. I was excited to hear comparisons to Big Little Lies as that was a favorite of mine but I don’t think this quite met that mark. However, it was a quick, fun read that kept me entertained!

This book was REALLY fun. Great murder mystery with a lighter tone to it. I really love a good reunion story, and this was a great combination of a reunion and a whodunit.

Gina LaManna incorporated an excellent twist to the story from the start, in that she switched around the typical format of a murder mystery expertly. She created really strong characters whose personalities shone off the page. There were multiple reveals within the story that kept me riveted. I read a lot of Psychological Thrillers, so any story where there is a twist is great, but I find myself figuring them out in advance. LaManna did a fantastic job of sprinkling enough clues to make the twists make sense and yet still kept me surprised by each new development.

I strongly recommend this book. I saw some recommendations to Liane Moriarty and wholeheartedly agree. Such a fun book!

Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of Pretty Guilty Women in exchange for an honest review.
4 women meet at a tropical resort for the wedding of a lifetime. But then, there's a murder the night of the rehearsal. All 4 women confessed to the murder. So what is the truth? This book reminded me of Liane Moriarty. I struggled at the beginning to sift through all the character transitions but as time went on, they were clearly defined. I enjoyed the book! I found it to be slightly predictable but the story is worth it.

Pretty Guilty Women is a book about four women who were all close friends and roommates back in college but now don't talk. Whitney invites Kate, Emily, and Ginger to her elaborate wedding, either for old time's sake or to rub it in their faces how wealthy a family she is marrying into ... We actually never really learn much about Whitney from her own perspective.

A body is found during the rehearsal dinner, with his face beaten so badly that he can't be identified -- although it's pretty obvious who it is. Kate, Emily, Ginger, and Lulu (another woman who they meet and befriend at the wedding) all confess to acting alone in killing the man. Each chapter ends with a short line of questioning by a police detective investigating the case to find out what really happened.

This book was fine. Written in the style of Big Little Lies, but not as good. I didn't connect to any of the characters until at least a third of the way through the book. I didn't really care if they killed someone or not... Except for Ginger's husband who has matured into a nicer man, most of the men in the book were creeps anyway.

As a positive, there was a twist at the end that I did not predict, so I always enjoy being surprised since that doesn't happen often in the mysteries I read. Extra points for the twist!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC. It did not influence my opinion.

Reminiscent of "Big, Little Lies", Gina LaManna writes this quirky mystery that will keep readers guessing until the very end. We meet five women who are all attending the same wedding. Some are old college friends, some are new kindred spirits. One thing they all have in common is that they each have secrets they aren't sharing. As the tale unfolds truths are revealed and friendships are made and renewed. At the center of it all is the idea of motherhood and what makes mother tick. A fun, quick read that kept me engaged through the end.