Mark Edwards’ The Wasp Trap is the very definition of a wickedly clever thriller—ingenious, chilling, and impossible to put down. What begins as a nostalgic dinner among six former college friends quickly mutates into the dinner party from hell, where secrets are the only currency and survival depends on revealing them. Edwards traps his characters—and his readers—in a grand house where phones die, the internet vanishes, and escape is impossible. The tension builds with every page as Will, Sophie, Rohan, Lilly, Theo, and Georgina realize their captors don’t want money—they want truth, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it.
Told through dual timelines, the novel shifts seamlessly between the summer of 1999—when a dating app experiment spiraled into a test to identify psychopaths—and the present, where the fallout of that fateful summer crashes down. Each flashback peels away layers of betrayal, ambition, and regret, while the present-day scenes escalate into a claustrophobic game of “who has the secret?” Edwards saves his sharpest blows for Part 3, where the pace becomes so relentless you’ll be glued to the pages until the very end.
With locked-room suspense, morally tangled questions, and secrets sharp enough to sting, The Wasp Trap is fast-paced, binge-worthy, and completely unpredictable.
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