The Wedding Vow by Dandy Smith

by | Jun 1, 2025 | Book review

When Linden Lockwood is murdered in the beautiful home he shares with his wife Verity, their outwardly perfect life is shattered. And then Verity discovers that her husband was having an affair. She is determined to uncover who he was betraying her with and who killed...

I Know You Saw Her by Ann Girdharry

by | May 25, 2025 | Book review

This was a creepy suspense novel that I raced through. Fiona is determined to find out what happened to her sister Amy who disappeared five years previously. When she assumes a new identity and takes a room in the boarding house where Amy lived, we’re introduced...

The Death Of Us by Abigail Dean

by | May 17, 2025 | Book review

This is a remarkable book about Isabel and Edward who are survivors of a horrific attack and rape in their home in south London. It’s narrated from both of their perspectives and set across two timescales, from back when it happened, and today, during the court...

Someone Like You by Elena Frost

by | May 15, 2025 | Book review

Someone Like You is a deeply atmospheric book, full of interesting characters and plot twists. It left me feeling on edge, with my heart racing and needing to turn those pages faster and faster. Carey and her autistic son Riley have recently moved to Saltwick, a...

Love, Mom by Iliana Xander

by | May 2, 2025 | Book review

This is the latest psychological thriller internet sensation, propelling this debut to heady Amazon heights. I listened to it as an audio book and rather wish I’d read it instead. The story follows McKenzie who receives mysterious letters following the death of her...

The House Sitter by Keri Beevis

by | Apr 30, 2025 | Book review

I’m a great fan of Keri Beevis who writes fabulous psychological thrillers. This book is about Nina who agrees to housesit for her brother following the breakup of her relationship. But when she looks through a pair of binoculars at the apartment block opposite, she...

First Time Mother by AJ Campbell

by | Apr 28, 2025 | Book review

Wow! AJ Campbell sure knows how to write a gripping psychological thriller! First Time Mother is about sleep-deprived, new mum Annie. Struggling with baby Lola and not getting on with her stepchildren, Annie feels like she’s going mad, with increasingly sinister...

You Shouldn’t Have Done That by Liz Alterman

by | Apr 12, 2025 | Book review

You Shouldn’t Have Done That by Liz Alterman is a fast-paced thriller about close friends and how far a mother will go to protect her child. Jane and Ivy have been best friends since their sons Brad and Cal were in kindergarten, and now the young men are living...

You Killed Me First by John Marrs

by | Apr 10, 2025 | Book review

I listened to You Killed Me First as an audiobook and having read Marrs’ dark future books and loved them, I found this to be quite different. It’s more of a conventional psychological thriller, with a very disturbing opening, portraying someone bound up and about to...

The Husband Before You by A J McDine

by | Mar 30, 2025 | Book review

I blame The Husband Before You for making me seriously sleep-deprived! I couldn’t stop reading A J McDine’s latest psychological thriller.   Alex’s first husband Freddie disappeared a decade earlier and now she’s married to his best friend, Carter. So when Freddie...