High Season by Katie Bishop

On a beautiful summer’s night twenty years ago, troubled seventeen-year-old Tamara Drayton was found floating face-down in the pool of her family’s idyllic mansion in the south of France, leaving her twin brother, golden-boy Blake, to pick up the pieces of their shattered family.

Also left behind was their sister Nina who, at six years old, became the youngest person ever to testify in a French murder trial. Because she’s the only one who saw what happened—who watched as her babysitter, Josie Jackson, pushed Tamara under the water, and held her there until she stopped breathing.

Didn’t she? Twenty years later, Nina's memories have faded, leaving her with no idea of what really transpired that night. When a new true crime documentary about her sister’s murder is announced, Nina thinks this might be her chance to finally find out.

But the truth always comes at a cost. Who will pay the price?

 

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About The Author

Katie Bishop is a writer and journalist based in the UK.

Her debut novel, The Girls of Summer published in 2023 with Transworld, UK and St. Martin's Press, US. Her second novel, High Season, is due to publish in August 2025.

 

My Review

 

 A read that is dual time, a time before the death of seventeen year old Tamara Drayton, and then twenty years later. Tamara and her family are old money in Côte d’Azur in France, and we are there for the mother's birthday.
Friends, or people who use others, and then someone is accused of murder. Did she do it? A pod caster gets involved twenty years later, and I did guess whom the culprit was, but the journey there was full of surprises.
I did love that there is closure for some and some justice for others, I did feel sorry for Nina, and more so after the facts are revealed!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher St. Martin's Press, and was not required to give a positive review.