This is definitely one of the best thrillers I have read this year! It’s the perfect atmospheric whodunnit for the season. “Desperate people are dangerous.” This mystery is full of dangerous, desperate people with secrets to hide. Desperation mixed with secrets proves to be deadly in this twisted tale. Sue Watson once again shows that she is the whodunnit queen. I quickly devoured this addictive story of deception and betrayal. I enjoyed discovering how a dream getaway quickly turns into a tragic nightmare. The narration is amazing! The characters are expertly brought to life, adding a layer of intrigue and suspense. Thank you Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for my audiobook.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I actually really enjoyed this audio more than I thought I would, having a story that been told many times before I wondered how this might stand out. However it surprised me and I was completely invested, although far fetched I enjoyed the narration and world definitely recommend

I have enjoyed quite a few stories by Sue Watson and I think this was the best one by far! I was gripped from start to end and surprised several times by twists I had not seen coming.

The idea of this story sounded like a nightmare! Wife and ex-wife and kids (old and new marriage) all in one lodge to celebrate husband's mother's 75th... sounds like a recipe for disaster and it was, but not just due to the expected drama within the family, but also crimes and mysteries and then the weather being terrible.

I was gripped and couldn't listen fast enough to get to the end and that was definitely not what I had expected!

Thank You, NetGalley for the review copy.

I was drawn into the book from the word go. Imagine a family in a lodge, trapped during winter and someone goes missing. You are new to the family and trust no one. It had all the ingredients for a cosy winter read.

It was chilling and gripping. Though I have this bad inclination to predict what's going to happen, I still loved listening to this.

It's a locked-room mystery with a dysfunctional family that had a lot of promise. It was good but could have been even better, I think. But nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this.

This was a perfect thriller for fans of Lucy Foley or Ruth Ware looking for a winter read.

Watson laid out a cast of characters with nuanced and complicated emotions in a bleak setting to weave a story that leaves readers guessing until the end. I liked that although this book revolved around an ex husband and the women in his life, he wasn't really a main character, The motivations of the ex wife, current wife, mother, and potential other woman were really focused on because they were more interesting. The Lodge was a quick, satisfying read that was full of suspense.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Lodge by Sue Watson and Narrated by Alison Campbell, Tamsin Kennard was excellent and was an addictive psychological thriller which was filled with great twists and turns that had you gripped on the edge of your seat.

This was an audiobook that just kept on giving, Sue has away of bringing her audience into the story and every book I have read or listened to, has never disappointed, this book was no different. I just love the way Sue writes.......

‘Please – someone – help us. We’re at The Lodge, the snow is everywhere. We’re trapped. There was an argument last night… things got out of hand. Someone went missing in the middle of the night. We think they might be dead…’

WoW, I need to turn my phone off, put the kettle on, make a cup of coffee and hide so no one can find me and listen to this audiobook!!!..........this audiobook was excellent and the ending was WoW excellent!!!

I highly recommend this book and the Narrator's Alison Campbell, Tamsin Kennard were excellent.

Another 5 Star audiobook/book.

Big thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an audio copy to listen to in exchange for an honest review.

This was such a fast paced twisty turny book! What a ride! I went through liking and hating every character. I absolutely loved the shifting perspective- so intense and it really allows the reader to know each of them.

What do you do when your former mother-in-law invites you to a weekend getaway with your ex-husband, his new wife (whom he cheated on you with), your adult children, and your ex-husband's toddler? You go, because it's for your MIL's 75th birthday and she thinks it may be her last. Along the way, you discover that the weather will be terrible and you'll be snowed in, and the police show up due to a murdered man and everyone in the house is a suspect. This makes for an interesting weekend.

This story is told via dual narration, with equally fantastic dual narrators, which I love. I can't gush enough when the production company hires a voice actor for each POV. These POVs are both unreliable narrators but reveal secrets that every single character has been keeping. Some are bigger than others. By the time of the big reveal, you don't know who the real bad guy is and why all the crazy stuff keeps happening.

There is an alarming amount of red herrings inundated from the very first chapter before we even know something sinister has occurred. There are so many secrets and tricks that it is hard to keep up with at times. Most of the characters are pretty unlikeable as well, but that doesn't detract from all of the mystery occurring. None of the adults seem to like one another and if this were a movie it would be a popcorn-chomping, Knives Out, kind of adventure. Just an absolutely absurd series of events continues to occur.

Overall the story fits in with the formula of a domestic thriller while staying unique and entertaining. The characters are not ones you will be attached to at the end of the day, but it's the journey that matters.

This is a psychological thriller told in pov set in a snowed in lodge.
The audio i of high quality and all characters are clearly recognised. The narration takes on the chatacter traits and it truly seems like im listening to their inner monologue. The plot itself is dripped through the narrative and its full of twists and tirns. The real reveals are nearer the end and are worth the listen. The narrator and ariry aeemed slow to start with at it was about 50% in when i was fully engaged. I found the ending satisfying and would recommend this to anyone who likes a complicated relationship driven story.
Thank you netgallery and publisher and author and narrator for a solid 5 listen.

'The Lodge' is a fantastically atmospheric audiobook. The narration is done by 2 narrators, including Tamsin Kennard, who, on hearing her dulcet tones, fans of psychological fictional just know they are in for a damn good listen!

This audiobook absolutely doesn't disappoint!

The story is that of Fiona, an ex-wife and mother, who finds herself on a weekend away in a remote Cornish Lodge, on the cusp of a snowstorm with her grown-up children, former mother in law, ex husband, together with his new wife and child! This sounds traumatic enough, but throw into the mix, a hit-and-run/murder, a somewhat suspicious chef and all sorts of secrets, and the scene is set for an epic listen!

This is an utter treat of an audiobook that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend!

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this audiobook in exchange for an advance copy.

A power punched dysfunctional domestic locked-room thriller that does not disappoint! To celebrate her birthday, Angela books a isolated lodge with her son, Scott, newly married daughter-in-law, Danni, two granddaughters, grandson and her son’s former wife, Fiona. Naturally, there is tension between Fiona and Danni. They are stranded at the lodge after a bad storm and Danni goes for a walk and doesn’t return.
Told from Danni and Fiona’s point of view, there are many hidden family secrets that start to unravel. Just when you think the story concludes, the twists keep on coming. Sue Watson is the master of thrillers and The Lodge is another fantastic read.

Explosive! These characters thrown together in a cliffside winter lodge, oh my gosh! I was glued to my headphones. The narrator did a great job of keeping me engaged and bringing out the best elements of the book, too.

Sadly this book never made it to download on my app so I have been unable to write a review. This seems to happen from time to time and is not only disappointing but can influence a review rating.

The Lodge has a clever plot and lots of dark twists, which make it a compelling though outrageous read. If you like shows like Grey's Anatomy where way too much is going on and all the characters have multiple things to hide, you'll find this disaster of a weekend at The Lodge worthy of a read, or listen.

The women of this novel -- Danni, Fiona, Angela and Jenna -- are all complex and interesting, but mostly as unlikable and petty characters. That said, I somehow found myself unable to look away from the disastrous holiday weekend and their particularly neurotic takes on every move every person made in that claustrophobic lodge.

Psychological novel set in snow blown CORNWALL

Why do it, Fiona? Why agree to join your ex mother-in-law, Angela, for her upcoming 75th birthday, in a rented lodge, in a remote bay in Cornwall? Joining them will be Scott, Fiona’s ex-husband, his mistress-now-wife Danni and their toddler Olivia; plus Fiona’s two teenage children from her marriage to Scott. It also soon becomes apparent that the hired chef comes with history and is known to various members of the assembled family. Angela just happened to find her at her local café and invited her along to cook for them.

Angela is playing the ‘this might be my last birthday when we can all be together‘ card and all the players succumb and drive down, with the weather closing in, the snow starting to bucket down – it is after all December. Angela herself appears to be distracted, a little vague, which causes concern in the gathering.

Fiona has been trying to move on in her life. Hovering in the shadows is Nick, someone Fiona met on-line and he has seemingly turned into a stalker, sending innumerable texts until she finally blocks him.

Out on the wild roads it appears that there has been hit-and-run accident and the police arrive at the door, as the indicators suggest that the car drove to this particular lodge, although Fiona is adamant she nearly got run off the road by some youths in a fast car. And then one of the group goes missing……

The author has clearly had fun assembling this varied cast of characters, bound by family connections, set in this locked-lodge in the middle of nowhere. There are plenty of paranoid and passive aggressive interplays – both Fiona and Danni have arrived with a specially prepared birthday cake for Angela, because each knows that Angela really appreciates the individual gesture – this, of course, creates a perfect scenario for a spectacular fall-out. These are people without boundaries, plenty of secrets and hidden backstories, and ultimately I so wanted Fiona to find her assertive backbone and stop her hypothesising and posing her rhetorical questions. The binding thread for several members is the school at which Fiona’s husband is head teacher, and if things aren’t murky enough, there are postings on the school Facebook page that allude to all kinds of nefarious couplings and secrets…..

I did feel there was a bit of a hole in the plot, in that the police would SURELY, as a very first step, have examined the cars at the lodge to ascertain who – if anyone at the premises – had knocked someone down and then reversed over them. Instead the police fiddle around (given the weather conditions) making phonecalls, discussing, interrogating, building the pathos, and getting properly involved once again when one of the core party disappears.

The story is told from different points of view and moves along at a good pace, with a few good twists at the end which I didn’t see coming. The author excels at rendering the innate claustrophobia of the setting and pitching the different personalities against each other.

The mother-in-law Angela celebrated her birthday with her family at her lodge. Her son Scott, Scott’s children and his wife Danni were invited. Also, Scott’s ex-wife Fiona was invited.

In the snowy night, Danni was missing. Then the body was found…

I enjoyed the complicated relationship in this family. The gossip, the wife and the ex-wife and the family drama created a reason that everyone was suspicious. The storyline was easy to follow, fast-paced and entertaining. The narrator did help a lot to play the story out.

Rating: 4/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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What do you get when you put an ex husband and wife, the husbands new wife, their respective families and the husbands mother in a lodge in a the middle of a snow storm? You got it a super addicting dysfunctional family locked room mystery that is perfect for the winter!
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This one is told in dual points of view and has enough family drama to be a soap opera. I was hooked right from the start, was loving ever single bit of the family fights and was even more invested when someone went missing. The characters are all questionable. The tension was so high that I was having anxiety. The snowstorm makes this one have a seriously chilling atmosphere and even that claustrophobic feeling.
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The Lodge is super fast paced with enough drama to have your head spinning. This one has great twists and the reveals are placed just at the right moments to give that optimum shock value. I loved where Watson went with this one leaving me absolutely shell shocked at that ending - definitely not one I saw coming; but I thought it was pure genius.
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I listened to this one via audio and the narrators Alison Campbell and Tamsin Kennard were phenomenal at their respective roles. I was able to easily tell the characters apart. They did a phenomenal job at creating such tension and secrecy between the characters that helped make this such an addicting read.
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This is a great winter read. Highly recommending to all my locked room mystery fans. Huge thank you to NetGalley, Sue Watson and BookOuture Audio for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

A fast paced family psychological thriller.

When Grandma books a holiday weekend at a cliff top lodge, the family have to go, but it’s the new wife and the ex wife with the older kids and the younger one. They all have secrets, but will they come out. They are cut off by a snow storm, the tensions start and the fun begins.

A great book with brilliant descriptions of the lodge and surrounds and has every character in the right place at the right time.

Really enjoyed listening to this book, the narrator is easy to follow and is brilliant at the different accents of the characters. She makes the book come alive.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

When Fiona’s ex mother in law, Angela, invites her to spend her birthday weekend at a luxury lodge, along with her two children, ex husband and his new wife and baby, her first instinct is to say hell no. She can think of nothing she’d rather do. Having been up publicly humiliated by their affair and hurt by their subsequent marriage and new baby, Fiona really can’t bear the thought of spending time with Danni, the newer, younger version of herself. Angela explains that this might be her last birthday and guilt forces Fiona to attend. Not long after they arrive they find themselves snowed in with the police on the phone asking about a hit and run on their lane. Soon another goes missing. Are they connected? And what role does Jenna the strange young woman invited to attend play in all this…

Told from different view points and with as many twists as a rollercoaster I thoroughly enjoyed this read and for once didn’t get the twist at the end! Highly recommended if you like your thrillers with a twist.

Secrets, lies, betrayal, and murder!

The dysfunctional Wilson family gathers for their matriarch's 75th birthday celebration, and chaos ensues. The Lodge is a slow burn that takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotion. Who's the hero, and who's the villain?
There were numerous twists that made The Lodge an enjoyable read; nothing is as it seems. Everyone is hiding secrets, and perhaps the Wilsons don't know each other as well as they think they do.

I loved this book from beginning to end!

Thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and the author for my free copy of the book.