The Bachelorette Party

By Camilla Sten

Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten.

On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends--Tilly, Anna, Linnea and Evelina--meet every year. Best friends since childhood, the idea is to drink beer, dance by the water, and shake off the weight of life's expectations. The location of the island is a secret to everyone but them. One night of reckless fun and secret-sharing, and then they return to their normal lives.

Ten Years Later. Ever since she was a teenager, Tessa Nilsson has been consumed by the story of four friends who disappeared. As her true crime fervor turned into a wildly popular podcast, Tessa covered Sweden's most gruesome cases, but could never find the answers behind what happened to these women who disappeared. Now Tessa's podcast has crashed and burned, any chance she had at uncovering the truth vanishing with it.

Anneliese is Tessa's best friend, and before she walks down the aisle, she wants to have a bachelorette party. The destination: Baltic Vinyasa, a sleek, sophisticated yoga retreat on a small island off the coast--one with such similar characteristics to the tragedy years ago that it raises the hair on Tessa's neck. The idea is to drink gallons of cava, do sunrise yoga, and get in their last chance to bond with the bride. Tessa will not pass this up. It's her last chance to find out what happened to the four women, once and for all.

And it's someone else's last chance to get revenge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250868505
• ISBN13: 9781250868503
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Creepy island

This book had a nicely creepy atmosphere with the missing four women and then 10 years later, another group goes to an isolated island to a newly built hotel for a getaway before a wedding. I will say, if I got an invite like that, to an island where I suspected four women had been murdered, bodies never being found and one of the requirements is to give up your tech (including cell phones) for the trip, then I would be in the next taxi heading away from the ferry! Things never end up well when people don't have access to emergency services. But it made for good suspense and the feeling of wrongness. Tessa was an interesting character and was the main viewpoint for this book. Her past was intriguing, hinting at past mistakes that cost her a lot. The others were pretty interchangeable, including the past missing women (there are quick sections of the past slowly revealed to ramp up the tension for when things start going odd in the present) and I did guess the twist pretty quickly, quicker than Tessa anyways which led to me yelling at her to open her eyes! The ending had plenty of action though and the story ended pretty well. So, a bit of frustration when reading and not quite as strong as some of her other books, but I mostly enjoyed it. Props to the great setting of the story though.