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The Perfect Guests is her new novel.
At CrimeReads, Rous tagged ten top dinner parties in modern fiction, including:
Expectation by Anna HopeRead about the other entries on the list.
This story follows three friends, Hannah, Cate and Lissa, as they navigate adulthood and relationships through a decade and more. At one point, Cate and her husband host a dinner party, even though Cate finds the prospect of it excruciating. A key couple arrive late and unhappy, and the evening descends into drunken dancing, arguments and wild accusations, until eventually someone storms out into the night.
--Marshal Zeringue