Review: We Love to Entertain by Sarah Strohmeyer

We Love to Entertain by Sarah Strohmeyer

Blurb from Goodreads:

From the bestselling author of Do I Know You? comes a fast-paced, riveting psychological thriller that skewers our modern obsession with home renovation and fixer-uppers.

Holly and Robert Barron are attractive young real-estate investors and contestants in a competition run by To the Manor Build, the nation's most popular home renovation app. With millions in product endorsements and online followers at stake, they're rehabbing a Vermont home they scored at a bargain price into a chic hilltop estate ideal for entertaining.

It's all camera-ready laughs and debates over herringbone tile until Holly and Robert go missing hours after their picture-perfect wedding--leaving behind a bloody trail.

Suspicion falls quickly on Erika Turnbull, the Barrons' twenty-something assistant--eager, efficient, and secretly in love with Robert. Did Erika let her misguided passion turn her into a murderer? So claim the townsfolk of Snowden, Vermont, who still haven't forgiven her for a tragic accident back in high school.

But Erika's mother, Kim, is not about to let small-town gossip and a cop with an axe to grind destroy her daughter--again. With time running out and their own lives at risk, the mother-daughter duo set out to find what really happened to the Barrons. First, though, they'll have to confront the vengeful former owner of Holly and Robert's estate, ruthless reality-show producers, and a secret that might bring their own house down.

Fast-paced, full of humor, and undeniably twisty, We Love to Entertain is another winner from Sarah Strohmeyer.

My Review:
This is not the genre I typically read from this author but this book was such a pleasant surprise!  It was definitely thrilling and I loved the rural Vermont setting.  This is everything I wanted this book (also a thriller/murder mystery set on a home renovation reality tv show) to be when I read it last summer and so I am happy to finally get all those wishes fulfilled.  Definitely recommend!

We Love to Entertain comes out next week on April 25, 2023, and you can purchase HERE! 

This is why people detest Listers. First they act like they have a divine right to butt into their neighbors' bedrooms and then they automatically assume their fellow residents are up to no good. They're forever accusing some innocent homeowner of sneaking in an unpermitted addition or hiding a kitchen remodel, converting a closet to a powder room and hoping the town doesn't add in the extra fixtures to up the property's value. They're wired to suspect the worst in others.