By Alex Michaelides Genre: Psychological Thriller / Locked‑Room Mystery Setting: A remote private island in Greece, cut off by violent Aegean winds known as the menos
Every year, reclusive former movie star Lana Farrar invites her closest friends to spend Easter on her secluded Greek island—a place so beautiful it feels unreal, and so isolated it becomes dangerous the moment the winds rise. This year, the group arrives expecting sun, luxury, and escape. Instead, they walk straight into a trap.
Their host is hiding something. Their friendships are fraying. And when the storm hits, the island becomes a locked room.
Narrated by Elliot Chase, a charismatic storyteller whose version of events is as seductive as it is suspect, the novel unravels a web of jealousy, betrayal, obsession, and long‑buried grudges. As the winds howl and tensions snap, someone ends up dead—leaving the survivors to confront the truth:
One of them is a murderer. But none of them are innocent.
Michaelides—author of The Silent Patient—delivers a twist‑packed, theatrical mystery where every revelation forces you to question what you’ve been told, who you can trust, and whether the narrator is confessing… or performing.
Unreliable narrators
Closed‑circle mysteries
Glamour with a sinister edge
Greek‑island atmospheres
Big, shocking twists
By Alex Michaelides Genre: Psychological Thriller / Locked‑Room Mystery Setting: A remote private island in Greece, cut off by violent Aegean winds known as the menos
Every year, reclusive former movie star Lana Farrar invites her closest friends to spend Easter on her secluded Greek island—a place so beautiful it feels unreal, and so isolated it becomes dangerous the moment the winds rise. This year, the group arrives expecting sun, luxury, and escape. Instead, they walk straight into a trap.
Their host is hiding something. Their friendships are fraying. And when the storm hits, the island becomes a locked room.
Narrated by Elliot Chase, a charismatic storyteller whose version of events is as seductive as it is suspect, the novel unravels a web of jealousy, betrayal, obsession, and long‑buried grudges. As the winds howl and tensions snap, someone ends up dead—leaving the survivors to confront the truth:
One of them is a murderer. But none of them are innocent.
Michaelides—author of The Silent Patient—delivers a twist‑packed, theatrical mystery where every revelation forces you to question what you’ve been told, who you can trust, and whether the narrator is confessing… or performing.
Unreliable narrators
Closed‑circle mysteries
Glamour with a sinister edge
Greek‑island atmospheres
Big, shocking twists
