This is one of those psychological thrillers in which a whole bunch of friends agree to meet up for a weekend away only to have the collective air let out of the party balloons by a mounting catalogue of revelations. The hook this time is that the friends were all at university together and while there they agreed to write down a number of predictions about each other. The predictions would only be read out when they hit 40 and that time has come. Putting a dampener on proceedings is the fact that one of the friends can’t make it as she recently died in suspicious circumstances. It’s a decent set-up, but the characters – which include an army vet, a tech bro and a journalist – have about as much depth as Cluedo dobbers, and as the narrative ground through seemingly endless rounds of opening bits of paper I struggled to care who did what. RM

Published by Raven Books