The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah (Hodder & Stoughton)

"Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours." It is hard to imagine anything seriously malicious or dangerous happening in an only for couples luxury resort. Who would need to tell anyone to beware in such idyllic surroundings? One guest who’s here on her honeymoon with the former husband of another guest? 

And then - murder. As it seems the perfect and unsolvable murder, but there is Lucy, betrayed ex-wife and she wants to know who is the perpetrator and maybe she wants to thank them? She is absolutely obsessed, because the shadow of William and Jane’s betrayal has loomed over her life. 

The plot is really intriguing, because everybody, accept the husband, were elsewhere when the murder happened. Lucy can’t rule anyone out, so she doubts everyone. As a protagonist, Lucy is very proactive, and reader understands her wish to revenge somehow, yet - she is still pretty unlikeable.

The trajectory of cause and effect wasn’t a single, clear, straight line in any case. Sophie Hannah rather likes to complicate things to the end, and then there is no big end at all. It seems that I really can't warm to her novels nor to her writing style.

Overall good crime novel.

3,5/5