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The Girls Weekend: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Jody Gehrman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 2,500 ratings
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“A brooding meditation on how friendships buckle when we resent other people’s success”—for fans of psychological thrillers by Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley (The Washington Post).

A riveting locked-room mystery about five college friends whose reunion takes a dark turn—and unearths even darker secrets and grudges.

Their reunion just became a crime scene . . .

June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie MacTavish, a mega-successful author, invites June and her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. June is less than thrilled to spend time with Sadie—and her husband, June's former crush—but agrees to go.

The party gets off to a shaky start when old grudges resurface, but when they wake the next morning, they find something worse: Sadie is missing, the house is in shambles, and bloodstains mar the staircase. None of them has any memory of the night before; they wonder if they were drugged. Everyone's a suspect. Since June had a secret rendezvous with Sadie's husband, she has plenty of reason to suspect herself. Apparently, so do the cops.

A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise, this brooding, atmospheric novel will keep you guessing as each twist reveals a new possibility. It will remind you of friendships hidden in the depths of your own past, and make you wonder how well you really know the people you've loved the longest.
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Praise for The Girls Weekend:
“A brooding meditation on how friendships buckle when we resent other people’s success.”
—The Washington Post

“Gehrman does a good job delineating the women’s individual characters.”
—Publishers Weekly

"Gehrman's writing style and characters...[are]nuanced and had a depth to them...I highly recommend this."
—Seattle Book Review

“A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise, this brooding, atmospheric novel will keep you guessing as each twist reveals a new possibility.”
—Red Carpet Crash

"[An] exhilarating, atmospheric thriller exploring the darker side of friendship...dazzling prose and an eerily beautiful setting."
—Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister

"A pulse-pounding thriller...you won’t  be be able to set it down."
—Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, authors of The Two Lila Bennetts  

"A captivating who-done-it and a tour de force thriller...Simply unputdownable."
—Paula Treick DeBoard, critically acclaimed author of Here We Lie and The Drowning Girls 

"A heart-pounding thriller that will have you guessing until the very end! Gehrman's taut who-dunnit, The Girls Weekend, pulses with fear, suspicion, and the disturbing question of how well we really know each other. Not to be missed."
—Elle Marr, author of The Missing Sister

“Gehrman does a good job delineating the women’s individual characters.”
—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Emily Ellet is an experienced audiobook narrator, actor, and singer as well as a proud member of P.E.O Sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization that provides scholarships to enable women across the world to pursue their educational goals. The winner of the 2017 MetroStar Talent Challenge cabaret competition at the Metropolitan Room, she has almost two-hundred audiobook narrations to her name. She currently resides in New York City.

Jody Gehrman has authored several novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Her young-adult novel Babe in Boyland won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award and was optioned by the Disney Channel. She received her master's degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California and is a professor of communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07XM3MGB4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books (August 11, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 11, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1391 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 315 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jody Gehrman has authored fourteen published novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Her suspense novels include The Protege, The Summer We Buried, The Girls Weekend, and Watch Me. Her Young Adult novel, Babe in Boyland, won the International Reading Association’s Teen Choice Award and was optioned by the Disney Channel. Jody’s plays have been produced or had staged readings in Ashland, New York, SanFrancisco, Chicago and L.A. Her newest full-length, TribalLife in America, won the Ebell Playwrights Prize and received a staged reading at the historic Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She holds a Masters Degree in ProfessionalWriting from the University of Southern California and is a professor of Communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.

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Well written and captivating.
What a weekend this would be. Right from the start everyone has a motive, all the girls, the daughter, the husband, possibly the grounds keeper!I enjoyed the captivating sequence of events so much. You lean toward one character harder than another then BAM it could be this person or that person. It is a cat chasing a mouse when a second one appears and now you are left wondering which direction to go....
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Michele Bufford
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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Never a dull moment. Great characters, couldn’t wait to pick it up every night before bed! Exciting! I could visualize the scenes, write was very descriptive! Loved every second of reading it!
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Laura
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2022
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This was a really good read! I found the characters well written and believable. And that’s extremely important to me. I would say the only the thing I didn’t care for was the revealing of the killer. It seemed a little too rushed. But the ending made up for that. All in all, I highly suggest this book to other readers!
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Keila
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023
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Reeling from a breakup, June finds herself on a weekend reunion with some old friends. They didn’t stay close over the years, but they used to be. She’s hoping this weekend helps them reconnect. After a fun night, everyone wakes up with no memory of the night before, and Sadie, their friend and houseowner is missing. Now that the house is a crime scene, the friends must work together to fill in the blanks from the night. Once the police are involved, everyone is a suspect. Since June had a secret rendezvous with Sadie’s husband it isn’t long before she’s the prime suspect and not remembering isn’t a defense. Will June be able to work things out before it’s too late?

I buddy read this book with my friends @theblondebombshelf, @joannas_books_baubles, and @readreelsreviews. The best part of this book was reading it with them and coming up with fun theories along the way. With all the truly irritating characters, we had some really crazy and exciting theories set up in our minds. I had such high hopes. So, when I got to the ending, and the big reveal happened, I was so made. All this build up and it ended in such a meh way. Like so obvious. There was so much potential! So, while I really enjoyed the first 80% of the book I really did not like the last 20% and this made it a so-so read for me. I will read more from this author however as the build up was great.

Thanks so much to my friends for reading this one with me. I had fun and can’t wait for our next read.
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Moy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Would definitely recommend, good read
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good storytelling
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2023
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I listened to audio book version and the narrator is fantastic, story is entertaining but so tired of "you okay?" Phrase in every other paragraph.
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Kristie Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars A great weekend read!
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
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Once I started it was hard to put down. Each time I thought I figured it out, something new popped in.
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Mary Jo Holmgren
4.0 out of 5 stars A good readk
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2022
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Busy story line. A little convoluted. I do understand why though. She developed doubts about each friend because they were not as close as they once were. Distrust is a normal human condition.
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randi mofield jackson
3.0 out of 5 stars a bit too easy
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023
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I feel like if the story had been a bit more elaborate it would have read better. Some of these relationships and revelations were too pressed. It was like having to carve it down in verbiage. A bit more time would have given better depth.
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DebbieH
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2020
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I really enjoyed this book it was fresh and despite me thinking i had the plot all worked out, it still kept me guessing
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Becca moore
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2022
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This book is very gripping. I feel as though the suspense could have been taken right to the end however a brilliant twist.
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K.
2.0 out of 5 stars Less than average
Reviewed in Australia on August 27, 2020
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I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn’t. The characters not only had had no depth, they were unlikeable. The storyline was unbelievable, convoluted and at time laughable. Such a shame.
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Tianna
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't Finish
Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2023
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I'm sure if I stuck through to the ending this book would have been okay, but I really found it kind of boring and hard to get into. I read until about half way and gave up.
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Alex23F
3.0 out of 5 stars It was okay
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2020
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I wanted to like this book as the plot was very interesting but the story just feel a bit flat and a bit unbelievable. The characters weren't super likable (or at least I didn't like them) so I didn't find myself as invested in the mystery of what happened as I am sometimes when I read a book. It wasn't a bad read just not a great read.
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