One Perfect Couple: A Novel by Ruth Ware

 

 One Perfect Couple: A Novel by Ruth Ware. Scout Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, 2024. Thriller, mystery. 

Told in Lyla's first person voice, this is the story of Lyla and her boyfriend Nico who are chosen to be one of the couples on a proposed new tv show that will choose one perfect couple. All the couples will face challenges, but not the ones they expected on the pristine blue waters of the brand new resort in the Thailand area. They have had to turn in all electronics and the one radio on the island doesn't seem to work. The boat that brought them is gone. When a major storm hits, some villas are destroyed, others flooded. With no clear idea where they really are, no medical supplies, and little food and water, the group begins to suspect that one of their own is plotting against their rapidly diminishing little group.

Here I am with another Ruth Ware book after all. This one reads like the pattern in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Thankfully, Ware is making the genre her own with fully developed characters, new setting, and up-to-date problems. If only multiple characters didn't all use the F word all the time! Maybe they should have brought a dictionary to the island with them to expand their vocabularies!