First published 2020
Cassandra Bowden knows hangovers well. The flight attendant drinks too much and blacks out regularly. She wakes up in a Dubai hotel room next to a stranger she spent the night with. He lies dead in a pool of blood. Cassandra panics. She cannot call the police because she remembers nothing from the previous hours. She would have no testimony to give. She decides to lie instead. When her flight lands in New York, FBI agents wait for her at the airport. By then it is too late to tell the truth. Did Cassandra kill him during her blackout? If she did not commit murder, then who did? Her alcoholism has erased the crucial hours that could prove her innocence or guilt.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Dubai, New York
392 pages · Paperback · Sonia Draga
Content warnings: alcohol-abuse, murder