🎧 ARC Review: With Friends Like These by Keri Beevis

My review: 3.85 ⭐

I made the mistake of beginning this one, then going on vacation where I wasn’t able to listen at all. I had a week long break that made it hard for me to get back into the story with ease. I had forgotten who was who and who was more connected with who, but all around I liked this one.

6 friends ~ Billy, Nancy, Griffin, Amelia, Ross and Jonah ~ are meeting at a remote house that’s 4 1/2 miles from the nearest neighbor for a reunion to celebrate a birthday. I loved that they each tell a bit of the story as the chapters alternate between their perspectives.
I don’t even know why they wanted to reunite really ~ there was so much drama between all of them. There are some nice twisty secrets they all have too. I am not against swearing, but if I am noticing it then there must be an abundance.

It comes in at 8 hours and 50 minutes and fine sounding at 2x. Joshua Manning did a pretty okay job narrating. Although his accent was perfect for the Scotland setting, I thought he sounded a little monotony at times. As always I wish there was a female narrator for the women characters though.

I have not read Keri’s work before and I’d like to do so again.

*Thanks to Dreamscape Media LLC, Keri Beevis and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb: Audio release date ~ June 21, 2022

A reunion of friends in remote Scotland turns into a terrifying ordeal in this twisting crime thriller by the international bestselling author of Dying To Tell, Every Little Breath and The People Next Door.

Billy Maguire, on his way to Scotland for a reunion with his university friends, stops for a few drinks en route. Then, on the deserted roads leading to the isolated location, he runs over a pedestrian.

The man is alive, and Billy puts him in the back seat of his car, planning to leave him outside the nearest hospital. But the man dies—and Billy panics. He drives to the reunion with the body in the car and begs his friends for help.

There is tension within the group at first, but when the dead man’s ID reveals him to be a notorious criminal named Dougie McCool—and cash, a mask, and a knife are also found in his backpack—they’re almost unanimous in the decision to get rid of the body and keep the money. The only problem is that some dangerous men are looking for McCool—including his brother, who is willing to brutally exploit every vulnerability in this circle of friends to get what he wants. But will he succeed?