The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards

The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing.

But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one-by-one.

It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.

Alternating between the past and present with a colorful ensemble of characters, The Wasp Trap is a fast-paced and twisty thrill ride that is perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Alice Feeney.
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This book was presented as being perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Alice Feeney, and since I am deep in thriller era, I decided to check it out. After a compelling prologue, I settle into a fast-paced, dual-timeline thriller that was full of twists and came to a satisfying conclusion. There were times that I thought that the author could have tightened up the plot a bit, but overall, this book had some real strengths. There were some characters that were easy to like, as well as some characters that were easy to hate, and while some dual-timeline books can be hard to follow, this was laid out in a way that made switching back and forth from 1999 to the present day seamless. There was a bit of gore without it becoming unnecessarily graphic, and I never felt like it settled into complete predictability, which many thrillers unfortunately do by the end of the book. Overall, this was a solid thriller, and I enjoyed it enough that I will look for other offerings from this author.


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