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Wowza! A perfectly crafted multiple-POV psychological suspense story, rich with sizzling characters (all of them hiding something) and a setting as lip-smackingly luscious as it is creepy and sinister.

With a plot that builds, and winds, and re-winds, gleefully delighting in tricking the reader, several times, into what feels like complacency, as the rug is pulled again, and again, until finally, all at once the denouement is revealed — and is nothing at all like what has been imagined.

A first-rate thriller, with an ending only partially guessed by this reader, this is a story not be missed if rascally “whodunnits” are your thing. (And even if they aren’t!)

The story centers on the first-person experiences of four women.

Dani Matthews is a gorgeous new mother, married to the very rich (and handsome) Ethan, who just doesn’t seem to realize she is living the good life with new baby Charlotte and a recently restored glittery mansion high on the hills of Texas.

Ethan’s ex-wife Kim, a bitter, addicted and thoroughly messed-up ex-veterinarian (and the mother to sixteen year old Sophie, a child she shares with Ethan) can only watch from the side-lines as the life she had struggled for is lived by a younger, prettier, other.

Orlaith is a short, talkative and somewhat mysterious Irish nanny, quickly invaluable to the Matthews, yet definitely carrying secrets along with her bushload of stories — each of them more chilling than the next.

Mikayla, best friend to beautiful sixteen-year old Sophie, is used to playing second-fiddle, — a role that comes with its own set of secrets (most of which are now bursting to be told).

As the Matthews prepare for Sophie’s over-the-top and extravagant sixteenth birthday celebration, a perfect storm is brewing. This “Party of Liars” promises to be spectacular, — in ways none of the attendees (and including the reader) could ever imagine.

A great big thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC of this book All thoughts presented are my own.