The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

THE MIDNIGHT FEAST by Lucy Foley (The Guest List and The Paris Apartment) is a complicated puzzle with events spanning several years. Francesca (Frankie) Meadows and her architect husband Owen Dacre have recently renovated The Manor and are throwing an opening weekend extravaganza for pampered, privileged guests. All is not quite what it seems in this “horror adjacent” (per Booklist) and “grisly treat” (per Publishers Weekly) tale, however. The innuendo and strangeness in this mystery certainly kept me up at night, as multiple narrators provide plenty of motives for the death and destruction Foley describes. Time shifts add to the uneasy mix of secrets and lies in what NPR calls “an absolute bonkers delight." THE MIDNIGHT FEAST was a LibraryReads Hall of Fame selection for June 2024.