When you're a serial binge drinker, no stranger to blackouts, you know you'll sometimes do things you regret. Cassandra Bowen is one of these people, her job with the airline making it easy to meet new people and have adventures. However, when she awakes one morning in a Dubai hotel room, she's not sure what happened the night before. She remembers a handsome man and drinking with him --- and is that him, in the bed, dead? Yes, it is. Afraid to call the police, Cassandra flees the hotel and starts to lie to her fellow flight attendants, to the FBI agents in New York, and even to her attorney. Soon, it's too late to come clean about what she thinks happened; could she have really killed this man? And if not, who did?
Typical of this author, the story has a good hook to it, drawing you in right from the first pages. Cassandra is an unreliable narrator, to be sure, and since you experience most of the story from her perspective, you're just as unsure as she is. However, there's a twist: there's a woman who came to the hotel room in Dubai, someone that Cassandra is sure knows the truth. As it turns out, this mystery woman does definitely know the truth . . . and she's been tasked with eliminating Cassandra to keep it hidden.
I have enjoyed other books by this author, and I also liked this one. It had a good pace and I liked that the main character was so imperfect and also that the storyline kept me guessing. I did feel like things got a bit convoluted towards the end of the book, but that only made me turn the pages more quickly.
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