Pages: 403Published: 19th September 2016Genre: Thriller Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial killer in her home town – and his victims all look like her. It could, of course, be a simple coincidence. Or maybe not. She becomes convinced she is being watched, followed even. Is she next? … Continue reading Book Review – Killing Kate by Alex Lake
Pages: 272Published: 5th May 2016Genre: Young Adult Thriller Skye is looking for an escape from the reality of last summer when her sister died in a tragic accident. Her parents think that a camp for troubled teenagers might help her process her grief. All of the kids at the summer camp have lost someone close, but is … Continue reading Book Review – Lying About Last Summer by Sue Wallman
Pages: 283Published: September 2016Genre: Thriller The truth will set you free. Can lies do the same? Within minutes of arriving in the exotic, enigmatic, sweltering city of Marrakech, renowned author Jaspar Wills is kidnapped, blindfolded, bound, and beaten. As Wills struggles to survive the ordeal, he recounts his rise to fame and the tragic events … Continue reading Book Review – Set Free by Anthony Bidulka
Pages: 320Published: 2nd March 2017Genre: Young Adult Thriller Mae feels lucky to have grown up at Hummingbird Creek, an elite wellnessretreat where rich teens with psychological problems canget the help they need from her father, a prominent psychiatrist. The Creek has world-class cuisine, a state-of-the-art sports centreand the latest spa treatments. Every aspect of daily life is … Continue reading Book Review – See How They Lie by Sue Wallman
Pages: 336Published: 6th April 2017Genre: Psychological Thriller What Is It About? Narrator Zoe Morley and her husband Ollie have an adopted daughter called Evie, and a young son named Ben. They live a mostly comfortable and happy life, but then Evie begins to receive gifts from somebody purporting to be her real father. Zoe is … Continue reading Book Review – The Stolen Child by Sanjida Kay
Pages: 368Published: 7th January 2016Genre: Thriller One word to describe this book? Wow. I picked it up almost randomly from a library one day, thinking that it simply looked like the kind of book that I normally like to read. It turned out (for me, at least), to be the very definition of a thriller; … Continue reading Book Review – Dead Secret by Ava McCarthy
This book was right near the top of my TBR list. All the reviews I had seen for it were positive, and it had the look of a riveting, truly edge-of-the-seat domestic thriller, so I had pretty high expectations when I began to read it at the start of this week. Did it meet my … Continue reading Book Review – Friend Request by Laura Marshall
Pages: 390Published: 4th June 2015Genre: Psychological Thriller What Is It About? Professional photographer Tess has just moved to the United States with her American husband Greg, who had been offered a job as a leading paediatric surgeon in Boston. She is pregnant, and her son Joe, from a previous relationship, has moved with them. Greg … Continue reading Book Review – The Other Child by Lucy Atkins
Pages: 390Published: 19th October 2017Genre: Paranormal Thriller This is my review of Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister. A gripping and thought-provoking novel, it will be released on paperback this week, and it comes highly recommended! I was lucky enough to be able to read it on my Kindle, and it was definitely 99p … Continue reading Book Review – Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister
As someone who likes reading as much as I do, it took me a frighteningly long time to get round to starting on The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the novel which - perhaps more than any other in the last decade - has become a total phenomenon. It's now the archetypal psychological thriller, … Continue reading Film Adaptation Review – The Girl On The Train
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