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001			on1230255311
003			OCoLC
005			20211124144945.0
008			210107s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020056517
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dOCLCO _dBDX _dOCLCF _dILC _dFMG _dHBP _dJAS _dVP@ _dYU6 _dYDX _dNFG
019			_a1269073684 _a1274170153
020			_a9780593238073 _qhardcover ; _qacid-free paper
020			_a0593238079 _qhardcover ; _qacid-free paper
035			_a(OCoLC)1230255311 _z(OCoLC)1269073684 _z(OCoLC)1274170153
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-ca
092			_aLITTLE, _bTESS
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLittle, Tess, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe last guest : _ba novel / _cTess Little.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBallantine Books, _c[2020]
300			_a325 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A glamorous birthday dinner in Los Angeles ends with the famous host dead and every guest under suspicion in this dark, cinematic suspense debut reminiscent of an Agatha Christie page-turner crossed with and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. There's more than one way to capture a life. When actress Elspeth Bell attends the fiftieth birthday party of her ex-husband Richard Bryant, the famous Hollywood director who launched her career, all she wants is to pass unnoticed through the glamorous crowd in his sprawling Los Angeles mansion. Instead, there are just seven other guests and Richard's pet octopus, Persephone, watching over them from her tank as the intimate party grows more surreal (and rowdy) by the hour. Come morning, Richard is dead--and all of the guests are suspects. In the weeks that follow, each of the guests come under suspicion: the school friend, the studio producer, the actress, the actor, the new partner, the manager, the cinematographer, and even Elspeth herself. What starts out as a locked-room mystery soon reveals itself to be much more complicated, as dark stories from Richard's past surface, colliding with memories of their marriage that Elspeth vowed never to revisit. Elspeth begins to wonder not just who killed Richard, but why these eight guests were invited, and what sort of man would desire to possess a creature as mysterious and unsettling as Persephone. From the Hollywood Hills to the marshes of Norfolk, The Last Guest is a stylish exploration of power--the power of memory, the power of perception, the power of one person over another--that will leave you questioning every truth you tell yourself"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aActresses _vFiction. _955073
650		0	_aOctopuses _vFiction. _995811
650		0	_aMurder _xInvestigation _vFiction. _9463
651		0	_aLos Angeles (Calif.) _vFiction. _910936
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _9464
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft _9833
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft _9465
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c338506 _d338506