The Dinner Club - Saskia Noort

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Title: The Dinner Club
Author: Saskia Noort
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 1.5/5
# pages: 236
Date read: July 2011

When Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the "dinner club," a group of five women who meet regularly and whose husbands do business together, rally around to support Babette, his grieving widow. But events soon spiral out of control. Within weeks, a member of the club falls from the balcony of a hotel and dies. Something is poisoning their smug world of flashy SUVs, coffee mornings, and wine-filled evenings and bringing death in its wake.

I pretty much only finished this book because it was short and - despite a bad plot - an easy read. Not exactly sure how that works other than perhaps Saskia Noort is a good writer who's just not terribly good at thinking up plots?

It's a very dark book which isn't bad in and of itself, but when things keep going from bad to worse, people are mean to each other for no apparent reason, and no believable explanation is given for the ultimate outcome... well, it all combines to a book that really isn't worth reading.

I seldom give this low a rating to anything that I actually finished, but unfortunately it wasn't even Okay.