Bad Summer People

The must-have summer read: "Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People."

"Wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp. Sinfully good like a summer cocktail you want to keep refilling." - Kevin Kwan

"A cracking debut... Brilliantly written, wryly funny." - Daily Mail

"Think Succession by the sea." - Red Magazine

"Awful rich people on their summer holidays having affairs and secret money worries, it is delicious." - Marian Keyes

"A delicious summer read." - Hello!

"The perfect page-turning summer read." - Grazia Book Club

"Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this darkly hilarious book over one weekend and resented everything that kept me away from it." - Lucy Foley

You are cordially invited to summer on New York State's idyllic Fire Island. Thirty miles of golden sand: no traffic, no tourists, no trash. The city elite gather here every year, trailing kids, their nannies, wine, and seafood imported from Manhattan: hard workers need their playtime.

Take the Parkers and the Weinsteins. Lauren and Jen hold sway on the beach and the tennis court. Their husbands are childhood friends bearing grudges as deep as they are secret. Their lone single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he's the new tennis pro or someone else's husband. She's not picky.

And while this season starts out quietly as any other, it soon changes when beneath the boardwalk, a body is found. No one is claiming to be a good person... But is someone actually capable of murder?

Stylish, subversive, and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.

"I like my beach reads either twisty, steamy, or funny and - lucky me - this was all three." - Chandler Baker, author of Whisper Network

"Entertaining. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty." - Good Housekeeping

"A great summer page-turner packed with sun-soaked secrets and outrageous scandals.".