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An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
3.0

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All I wanted was an edge-of-your-seat locked door thriller, and while it had the second half, I wasn't really on the edge of my seat. They are all locked in the Inn because of a bad snowstorm. There are a lot of characters, and since they don't label the character switches in third person, you just have to make sure that you are paying attention. I thought that it was fine. I just wish that it kept me on the edge of my seat more.

The murderer ended up being a woman, I forget which one. But she is caught because she loses her earring, and at the time, there is an earring underneath the dead body that they found. She started her murdering because she was in the foster care system, and one of the other guests, I think Dana, was the bully to her in the orphanage. 

Overall, like I said before, I wanted it to keep me on the edge of my seat, and it just didn't. I didn't find myself reaching toward the book.