Fic­tion

Ten Per­fect Guests

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September 1, 2025

From acclaimed artist and author of The Last Mona Lisa and The Lost Van Gogh, Jonathan Sant­lofer deliv­ers Ten Per­fect Guests, a sin­is­ter thriller blend­ing clas­sic who­dunit ten­sion with a lush, trop­i­cal set­ting. Ten guests are sum­moned to a remote island for a week­end memo­r­i­al hon­or­ing cel­e­brat­ed artist Vic­tor D’Arcangelo. The catch? Attend — or for­feit your inher­i­tance. Among them: his bit­ter cur­rent wife, his even more bit­ter ex-wife, his estranged broth­er, a debt-rid­den gal­lerist, a shady Euro­pean deal­er, a scan­dal-prone phar­ma heiress, a failed musi­cian, a dis­grun­tled crit­ic, a degen­er­ate son, and an ille­git­i­mate daugh­ter. Each has some­thing to gain — and some­thing to hide. Upon arrival, they’re asked a chill­ing ques­tion: How did you help — or harm — Vic­tor D’Arcangelo? A genius and a cad in life, Victor’s true motives remain a mys­tery. Is he orches­trat­ing revenge from beyond the grave? Or is some­one else pulling the strings? By weekend’s end, not every­one will survive.

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