Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Publication Date: 18th July 2023
Genre:Crime/Thriller
Summary:
When a severed finger was found in her car four years ago, Kerry Grey was arrested as an accomplice to the brutal slayings of three young women. Unbeknownst to Kerry, her husband Lucas was not only missing, but a deranged serial killer. Finally out on parole, she is ready to start anew and reunite with her young son. However, when a vigilante group inflamed by fear and motivated by reward money sparks a fevered hunt for Lucas, the nightmares of her past return. Only one person can help Kerry evade the hysteria of the media her parole officer, Adam Nash. But can she trust him? Was his move to the backwoods town of Joy, Montana coincidental or does Nash have his own obsessive hidden agenda involving the Hatchet Killer mystery, her husband and sweet justice? It is not long before Kerry's new life turns dark when she discovers that Lucas has been secretly giving their son carvings made of bone. And when a freshly dismembered victim is uncovered in the forest, the law is after her once again. Left with nowhere else to run, Kerry escapes up a mountainous trail to find Lucas and, one way or another, put an end to the real-life nightmare. In a final twist of lies and betrayal, Kerry finds Lucas and the truth that will change everything.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Partners In Crime, Seventh Street Books and Susan Furlong for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
Now I'm going to do my best to not give a single thing away about this book if I can because of the twist at the end I did not see coming at all! I literally read this book in a day, picked it up when my small one was napping and couldn't bare to put it down. There was so much I really enjoyed about the way the book is set out, hearing from both Kerry and Adam's points of view was brilliant, especially as we often got to hear the same situation from both points of view but I have to say one of my favourite parts of the book was the transcripts. I loved reading them and getting to "watch" the episode that means so much to Adam and then how it switched to an upcoming episode about the Hatchet Killer, meaning we got to hear from other characters we've met in the book without having whole chapters devoted to essentially talking to the whole town.
I really didn't like Miranda, I thought she was quite the piece of work and the way she was with Adam made me feel so sorry for him but then we got little pockets of crazy appearing which I couldn't tell if they were because of the way his wife is with him or how his mother raised him. The way the characters were written was fantastic, you gradually got to see different sides of their personalities as we went through the book, and get teased with "what ifs". I did start to think I knew who the killer was around the halfway point, I was right but there was an extra twist that I did not see coming and I really loved that about the book.
I defiantly now need to go and find some more of Susan Furlongs' books, because if they are half as good as this one I've found a new auto-buy author.
I've popped the purchase links below in case you'd like to find the twist out for yourself, if you do read it let me know because id love to hear what you thought about it!
Now I'm going to do my best to not give a single thing away about this book if I can because of the twist at the end I did not see coming at all! I literally read this book in a day, picked it up when my small one was napping and couldn't bare to put it down. There was so much I really enjoyed about the way the book is set out, hearing from both Kerry and Adam's points of view was brilliant, especially as we often got to hear the same situation from both points of view but I have to say one of my favourite parts of the book was the transcripts. I loved reading them and getting to "watch" the episode that means so much to Adam and then how it switched to an upcoming episode about the Hatchet Killer, meaning we got to hear from other characters we've met in the book without having whole chapters devoted to essentially talking to the whole town.
I really didn't like Miranda, I thought she was quite the piece of work and the way she was with Adam made me feel so sorry for him but then we got little pockets of crazy appearing which I couldn't tell if they were because of the way his wife is with him or how his mother raised him. The way the characters were written was fantastic, you gradually got to see different sides of their personalities as we went through the book, and get teased with "what ifs". I did start to think I knew who the killer was around the halfway point, I was right but there was an extra twist that I did not see coming and I really loved that about the book.
I defiantly now need to go and find some more of Susan Furlongs' books, because if they are half as good as this one I've found a new auto-buy author.
I've popped the purchase links below in case you'd like to find the twist out for yourself, if you do read it let me know because id love to hear what you thought about it!
Krystina xx
The Purchase links;
Amazon
Waterstones
Barnes& Noble
The Purchase links;
Amazon
Waterstones
Barnes& Noble
Great review! Yes, I loved this one just as much!
ReplyDeleteMight I suggest - What They Don't Know, also by Susan Furlong. It is just as good!
Thank you 😊 I'll add it to My tbr!
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