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...

The Crash by Freida McFadden

by | Mar 26, 2025 | Book review

With the exception of a couple of books, I’ve been a huge McFadden fan and certainly think she deserves the stratospheric success she’s achieved. Unfortunately, I wasn’t so taken with The Crash. The dual narrative of Polly and Tegan meant that sections of the book...

Three Little Lies by Danielle Stewart

by | Mar 20, 2025 | Book review

Three Little Lies by Danielle Stewart is a fast-paced domestic thriller about Jo, her husband Everett and their two kids, Megan and Ashton. We know early on that Jo has secrets but in many ways that’s a red herring. When British exchange student Eden comes to stay,...

It’s Always the Husband by C.L. Taylor

by | Mar 15, 2025 | Book review

You can always rely on C.L. Taylor to create multi-layered psychological thrillers with well-developed characters. It’s Always the Husband is narrated from the points of view of several school mums, but the principle one is Jude, who arrives in small-town Lowbridge...