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A glamorous birthday dinner in the Hollywood Hills ends with the famous host dead and every guest under suspicion inThe Last Guest adark cinematic suspense debut reminiscent of an Agatha Christie pageturner crossed with David Lynchs Mulholland Drive
The Last Guestis asharp unshrinking look at the costs of submissionto power and control to ambition and desire even to the wish to protect those we love by forcing memory undergroundPaula McLain author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark
When Elspeth Bell attends the fiftieth birthday party of her exhusband Richard Bryant the Hollywood director who launched her acting career all she wants is to pass unnoticed through the glamorous crowd in his sprawling Los Angeles mansion Instead there are only seven other guestsand Richards pet octopus Persephone watching over them from her tank as the intimate party grows more surreal and rowdy by the hour Come morning Richard is deadand all of the guests are suspects
In the weeks that follow each guest comes under suspicion the school friend the studio producer the actress the actor the new partner the manager the cinematographer and even Elspeth herself What starts out as a lockedroom mystery soon reveals itself to be much more complicated as dark stories from Richards past surface colliding with memories of their marriage that Elspeth vowed never to revisit She begins to wonder not just who killed Richard but why these eight guests were invitedand what sort of man would desire to possess a creature as mysterious and unsettling as Persephone
The Last Guest is a stylish exploration of powerthe power of memory the power of perception the power of one person over another
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