The Wasp Trap
by Mark Edwards
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"So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist at the end." --Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets...or else.
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing.
But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one-by-one.
It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.
Alternating between the past and present with a colorful ensemble of characters, The Wasp Trap is a fast-paced and twisty thrill ride that is perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Alice Feeney.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781668204771
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Authors
- Mark Edwards
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Published Date
- September 16, 2025
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 336
- Physical Info
- 1.19 in H x 9.3 in L x 6.45 in W (1.06 lb)

The internet was new and lots of young adults thought creating just the right app was going to make them rich. The cast of character created by Edwards runs the gamut from brilliant to despicable which creates plenty of drama. The story centers on what happens when people are assigned a label and the resulting consequences. It’s a very interesting story spun by a prolific writer that has an unexpected ending.
Twisty, tense, and totally absorbing. The dual timelines added so much intrigue, and the reveals genuinely shocked me — I gasped out loud more than once. I was fully hooked from beginning to end.I’ll be reading more from Mark Edwards for sure. Highly recommend for thriller fans who love staying on their toes. Readers who enjoy tense, twist‑driven psychological thrillers should add this to their TBR.
If you're looking for a twisty, fast-paced thriller to keep you glued to the page this weekend, The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards is a must-read.Summer 1999: six idealistic graduates join eccentric psychology Professor Sebastian Marlowe to help him launch a website that could revolutionize online dating. But when a chilling experiment-known as The Wasp Trap-is introduced to test psychopathic tendencies, everything changes. The project collapses, and the friends scatter.Fast forward twenty-five years. The group reunites for a dinner party in a posh Notting Hill home, hosted by their seemingly perfect former colleagues, Georgina and Theo. But the evening quickly spirals into something far darker. There's an uninvited guest, a failed security system, locked doors, and an undercurrent of unease that Will-the story's narrator-can't shake. As secrets resurface and tensions rise, it becomes clear that one of them will go to deadly lengths to uncover the truth.The Wasp Trap is a masterfully written psychological thriller packed with red herrings, shocking twists, and an ending that left me absolutely reeling.Mark Edwards delivers a breathless, bingeable story full of suspense and emotional complexity. Every page tightens the web until the final, mind-blowing reveal.Clever. Unpredictable. Utterly addictive.
Mark Edwards has done it again. A throughly addicting novel.It was like bingeing through a series on Netflix.As always, I’m sitting on the sidelines waiting for Mark‘s next novel.
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