Two Finnish couples, made up of old friends, spend an evening having dinner in a luxurious London apartment--only to have it end with one left alive--in Karo Hamalainen's Cruel is the Night.
Cruel is the Night is an inky-black comedy of manners centered around a dinner party where every attendee brings something hidden to the table, be it infidelity or fraud or other vices, as well as a lifetime of resentments. Unfortunately, an ornamental sword and a variety of poisons end up too readily at hand.
Hamalainen's novel ranges from riotously funny, to frightening and shocking, taking the reader on quite a ride; an Agatha Christie novel as told by Brett Easton Ellis.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
Cruel is the Night is an inky-black comedy of manners centered around a dinner party where every attendee brings something hidden to the table, be it infidelity or fraud or other vices, as well as a lifetime of resentments. Unfortunately, an ornamental sword and a variety of poisons end up too readily at hand.
Hamalainen's novel ranges from riotously funny, to frightening and shocking, taking the reader on quite a ride; an Agatha Christie novel as told by Brett Easton Ellis.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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