I find that thriller/mysteries are great for train rides because they are fairly quick to read and entertaining. Taken has been on my TBR list for quite a while and since I had a long train ride back to Nice, I thought this was a good book to kill time with! Taken starts with an… Read More Book Review: #Taken by Tony Parsons
I’ve always enjoyed Jane Eyre retellings (even more than the original, for some reason) so when Wendy at Musings of a Bookish Kitty reviewed this, I was intrigued. I was reminded of the book when Wendy did a roundup of all the first lines of books that she read in 2021 and since I wanted… Read More Book Review: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The Doll Maker was recommended to me by a friend who enjoys serial-killer mysteries/thrillers and because we both enjoyed Liv Constantine’s The Wife Stalker, I ended up really enjoying this! The Doll Maker starts with two murders: one of a young boy caught up in a possible drug-dealing case, the other of a woman who… Read More Book Review: The Doll Maker by Mary Burton
I’ve been in the mood for a thriller and this was in my overdrive wishlist so it was a perfect fit! In The Perfect Couple, Gemma comes home from a work trip to find that her husband Danny has vanished. Naturally, she reports this to the police. DCI Helena, on the other hand, is investigating… Read More Book Review: The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler
I was in the mood for a thriller and Watching You by Lisa Jewell caught my eye! I quite enjoyed her other book, The Family Upstairs, so I was eager to dive into this. Watching You is told from the POV of many different people: Joey/Josephine: who meets one of her neighbours (Tom FitzWilliam) and… Read More Book Review: Watching You by Lisa Jewell
I distinctly remember hearing about this book from one or two of the blogs I follow, but I can’t find your post so thank you to anyone who has recommended this book earlier in the year! I’m a big fan of mysteries and I’m always looking for more translated works, so this book appealed to… Read More Book Review: The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz
Before we begin: this review will have mild spoilers because of things I want to talk about, so if you want to avoid all of that, please skip this post. I somehow missed Rebecca’s first review of this series, but her review of the second book, Perfect Prey, caught my eye and I decided to… Read More Book Review: Perfect Remains by Helen Fields
I must be in a thriller mood* because I’ve finished another one – Perfect Little Children (also known as Haven’t They Grown) by Sophie Hannah. Perfect Little Children has a premise that grabbed me immediately: Unable to resist her curiosity, Beth takes a detour to her ex-best friend, Flora’s, house. It’s been twelve years since… Read More Book Review: Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah
Since I have not managed to get my hands on a copy of Rules for Perfect Murders, I decided to try another one of Peter Swanson’s books: Before She Knew Him. Gotta say, if Rules for Perfect Murders is as interesting as this, I’m definitely going to like it. Before She Knew Him is a… Read More Book Review: Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
I found The Wife Stalker to be an amazing thriller, so I looked up the author and I realised that I’ve been hearing about The Last Mrs Parrish as well. Since I had such a good reading experience with The Wife Stalker, I immediately placed a hold on The Last Mrs Parrish. The Last Mrs… Read More Book Review: The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine