We are thrilled to announce that #1 bestselling author of the STILL MINE series, Amy Stuart’s hotly anticipated new stand-alone A DEATH AT THE PARTY has been sold in a good deal to Grace Long at Penguin Michael Joseph for publication in Summer 2023 (World rights ex. North America)!
A DEATH AT THE PARTY is a tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day as a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong— think Mrs. Dalloway with a suspense engine of Lisa Jewell.
Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan.
But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this?
Rewind to that morning, when Nadine is in her kitchen, making last-minute preparations before she welcomes more than a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother’s birthday. But her husband is of little help to her, her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns, and her mother—only her mother knows that today isn’t just a birthday party. It marks another anniversary as well.
Still, Nadine will focus just on tonight. Everyone deserves a celebration after the year they’ve had. A chance for fun. A chance to forget. But it’s hard to forget when Nadine’s head is swirling with secrets, haunting memories, and concerns about what might happen when her guests unite.
Amy Stuart is the #1 bestselling author of three novels: Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here. Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award and winner of the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, Amy is the founder of Writerscape, an online community for hopeful and emerging writers. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and their three sons.
Deal arranged by Evan Brown on behalf of Samantha Haywood.