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This particular title — How To Kill Your Best Friend — does a very good job of dragging the reader right into the crux of the matter! Immediately the reader must be wondering why anyone would want to do that? What must be lurking in the past of these friends for either of them to even contemplate murder? The novel is a psychological thriller, told through the eyes of Georgie and Bronwyn, who, together with Lissa, have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team. But Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, has somehow drowned off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband. As they gather with their closest friends on the island for Lissa’s funeral, with the weather turning ominous and threatening to trap them on the island, each of them find themselves questioning both the past and the present and whether there is…[read on]
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