3.5 stars

This is an above average locked room thriller. I really enjoyed all the secrets, and the atmosphere. The writing is solid and kept me reading well into the night

I rarely choose thrillers with a large dose of scary Yet I nearly read TSHB8 in two sittings. I had to know what happened! Nalini Singh painted amazing word pictures of the half destoryed house and the gloom inside.

And she captured a group of people living through the memory of friendships shattered by a friend's death.

We see all of this unfold through Luna, a photographer with secrets. Nalini wrote her in such a way that I related to her, but never fully liked her. Kind of the way she never fully settled back into the lines of those friendships.

There were innocents as well as people with deeper, darker motivations. And all of it set in beautiful, darker place in which nature and evil human intentions collide.

My heart is still kind of pounding and my brain keeps wanting to go back to those very tangled ties that bound. It's a book I'll remember for a long time,

Their Should Have Been Eight is a locked room mystery - isolated after a big snow storm. 7 old friends gather to commemorate the death of a friend many years ago. They go to her old family home - once a fine gothic mansion but now a crumbling place.

Secrets arise and it soon becomes apparent that the friend's death is not what they thought.