The Stranger at the Wedding

Critics Review

• Accomplished … a masterpiece of misdirection … the final revelation … a stunner

  Sunday Times

• Sharp, shocking, twisting and twisted. The Stranger at the Wedding is darkly thrilling, clever and unsettling

  Chris Whitaker, Sunday Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End, winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021

• Twisty-turny… [will] have you compulsively reading until the devastating final conclusion

  Heat

• Annie and Mark’s past is skilfully revealed and concealed . . . original . . . unpredictable

  Daily Mail

• A dark unputdownable read

  Bella

• The Stranger at the Wedding is a cunning, twisted mystery that will keep you second guessing who you can trust until the very last page

  Sara Ochs, author of The Dive

• Gripping

  Crime Monthly

• A. E. Gauntlett takes the normal anxieties found in relationships . . . and twists them into something horrible . . . as the story darkens, the tensions rises

  Literary Review

• A terrific slow burn of a thriller with beautifully-constructed twists. I thoroughly enjoyed The Stranger at the Wedding

  Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Between Us and The Golden Couple

• Superbly twisty and thoroughly addictive

  Alice Clark-Platts

• An elegant, chilling thriller that kept me guessing – I was gripped by this clever study of love, obsession and the myths we tell ourselves about a happy ever after

  Phoebe Locke

• Beautifully insidious, The Stranger at the Wedding is a perfectly unsettling debut, bringing the sense that all is about to go to smash coupled with a story so compelling you’ll lose sleep desperate to know what happens next. Gauntlett’s elegant writing weaves seamlessly between past and present, intertwining joy and fear until dread takes over completely. And that dread oozes from the pages… This is the book everyone will be talking about this year. Outstanding

  J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of It's One of Us

• Nothing about The Stranger at the Wedding is as it seems — especially how the happy couple came to be. Surprises lurk throughout this thrilling blend of myth, suspense, and delightfully disturbing twists

  Chris Cander, author of The Weight of a Piano

• Beautifully written and completely gripping … a propulsive, consuming mystery

  Amy Jordan

• The Stranger at the Wedding is an eerie and intelligent meditation on how our pasts shape us, subverting readers’ expectations the moment you believe you’ve guessed the plot. A. E. Gauntlett has produced an expertly written tale whose characters possess rich and recondite interiorities and intentions, about which you’ll be guessing until the last page

  Flora Collins, author of Nanny Dearest

• A modern-day Talented Mr Ripley, a tale of obsession and deception, you won’t be able to put it down

  Abigail Bergstrom, author of What a Shame

• There’s more than one stranger at the wedding in A. E. Gauntlett’s dark and clever debut. A keep-you-guessing thriller that slyly examines the leaps of faith required by saying “I do”, The Stranger at the Wedding will keep its readers flipping pages right up to its shocking conclusion

  L. Alison Heller, author of The Neighbor's Secret