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    Go to My Grave
    Go to My Grave
    Go to My Grave
    Audiobook8 hours

    Go to My Grave

    Written by Catriona McPherson

    Narrated by Pearl Hewitt

    3.5/5

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    Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now it sits waiting-freshly painted, richly furnished, filled with flowers-for the first guests to arrive.

    But Donna's guests, a contentious group of estranged cousins, soon realize that they've been here before, years ago. Decades have passed, but that night still haunts them: a sixteenth birthday party that started with peach schnapps and ended with a girl walking into the sea.

    Each of them had made a vow of silence: "lock it in a box, stitch my lips, and go to my grave."

    But now someone has broken the pact. Amid the home-baked scones and lavish rooms, someone is playing games, locking boxes, stitching lips. And before the weekend is over, at least one of them will go to their grave.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781684416134
    Author

    Catriona McPherson

    Born and raised in Edinburgh, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with a black cat and a scientist. In 2020 she has been shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for Strangers at the Gate, and won a Left Coast Crime 2020 Lefty Award for the Best Humorous Mystery for Scot and Soda.

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    • 3/5
      Donna Weaver and her mom have put everything into The Breakers, a luxury hotel, Home from Home. Eight old friends go to stay for the weekend not realising that they have been to The Breakers before twenty five years ago.This is the type of book that I seem to be enjoying at the moment. A group of people gathering in a building with secrets and knowing that at least one will go missing or die. The story has an Agatha Christie feel about it with the classic reveal at the end. The story doesn't have the claustrophobic feel to it as the characters are not stranded and can leave at any time. The characters are not very likeable at all apart from Donna who I did like very much. A motley crew of brothers, sisters and cousins who the reader gets to learn about what happened when they were at the house before. I enjoyed the majority of the story, going in blind as it was a ramdom pick. The ending with the whys and hows I found a little unrealistic and at times silly. Apart from that I found the story a quick read that held my interest.
    • 4/5
      Go to My Grave by Catriona McPherson is an eerie, suspenseful mystery.

      Donna Weavers and her mum have just opened  their bed and breakfast, The Breakers, and they are awaiting their first guests, a group of eight cousins celebrating a wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, Donna will be working alone since her mum is off to an event where she hopes to garner bookings for their B&B. The guests begin arriving and Donna is a little taken aback by some their unexpected reactions to the house. The weekend is off to a rocky beginning due to some inner fighting, tension and an unexpected departure.  As the weekend progresses, sinister occurrences rattle Donna and her guests.  A shocking discovery stuns Donna but is this just another one of the odd happenings that have plagued them over the weekend? Or is there a more much ominous reason what has just happened?

      Donna has been in the hospitality business since she started working and after a relationship falls apart, she moves back in with her mum. Together, they have renovated the bed and breakfast and they are eager to begin welcoming guests to The Breakers. Donna is a bit concerned about working alone due to the workload, but she and her mum have devised a clever plan to help stay on schedule.

      The first guests to arrive are Peach Plummer and her brother Buck. Soon joining them are their cousins Rosalie and Paul Buchanan, Paul's brother, Ramsay, Jennifer and finally, the guests of honor Sasha and Kim Mowbray.  Kim planned the weekend as a surprise for Sasha for their tenth wedding anniversary celebration. Much to everyone's surprise, Sasha is hostile to Kim as he interrogates her about why she booked their stay there. He remains on edge during their stay and his sarcasm and caustic comments rub everyone the wrong way.

      Nevertheless, Donna carries on her duties and maintains a cheerful attitude despite the tense atmosphere.  The cousins are determined to make the best of the situation but Jennifer flees almost immediately.  When  strange things begin occurring, everyone is shaken and uncertain who is behind them. Donna remains hopelessly in the dark since no one is willing to explain why they are so upset or the significance of what is happening around them.

      The chapters alternate between the events in the present and a momentous event twenty-five years prior. The answer to what is occurring at the current day gathering is gradually revealed through these passages. However, no one fully understands who is responsible for the current day events or the reason behind them until the novel's conclusion.

      With an isolated setting and menacing overtones, Go to My Grave is an atmospheric, gripping mystery. The cast of characters are interesting and multi-faceted. The plot is quite clever and Catriona McPherson brilliantly keeps readers guessing the truth about  who is targeting the guests and more importantly, why, until the novel's jaw-dropping denouement. I greatly enjoyed and highly recommend this twisty-turny mystery to fans of the genre.
    • 3/5
      I've enjoyed other standalone novels by Catriona McPherson because she is skilled at heightening suspense and in creating characters that grab my interest. She's got plenty of suspense here in Go to My Grave, and the character of Donna Weaver certainly grabbed my interest. So, too, did the element of running a bed and breakfast on a beach in Scotland because I've enjoyed stays in more than one place like that.The story is compelling, told in two timelines. One, in 1991, in the voice of a teenage girl invited to that fateful birthday party, and the other in the voice of Donna, the co-owner of The Breakers, in the present day. Both voices are forceful, making readers want to keep turning the pages. Both voices make readers want to know what really happened at that birthday party and who is responsible for what is happening at The Breakers now.Unfortunately, I deduced what was going on almost immediately, and I came close to skipping to the end to find out if I was right because this group of cousins is nothing more than a pack of entitled, self-indulgent pillocks who've never taken responsibility for their actions in their entire lives. At one point, I closed the book and thought-- very loudly-- "Would someone stick a knife in that man!" because one of them is obnoxious beyond belief.But you know what? Donna's voice kept me reading until the very end, and although this isn't one of my finest reading experiences this year, I'm glad I finished it. I will admit that, if the next book I pick up has a similar cast of characters, I won't finish reading it!
    • 4/5
      Characters we love to hate, and this book presents numerable choices. A new B&B, Donna and her mother bought and spruced up this old house, and are now expecting their first guests. A 10th Anniversary party, attended by a group of family members, all of similar age. Things are prepared, even though Donna's Mom leaves her in charge to attend a conference on the hotel industry in order to drum up some more bookings. Although Donna is a little hesitant to attempt this on her own, the house looks lovely, the menu mostly planned. What could possibly go wrong? And then they begin arriving.........I love how this suthor puts her stories together, building layer upon layer, discovery upon discovery. There are secrets here, always secrets, but these cousins and spouses have a history, a locked box where the secrets are kept, so to speak. But it seems someone has decided to let some of them out in a terrifying manner. Can one believe one's own eyes?Darkly atmospheric, things appear, disappear, we're they ever really there? The tension builds, some past history is exposed. Like Donna, we are confused, this author is so good at keeping the reader off balance. One of a handful of authors whose psychological thrillers I always look forward to reading.ARC from Netgalley.