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Aug 31, 2024 | 
canberradaily.com.au | Ruth Ware |Catherine Steadman |Lee Child
This week, Jeff Popple reviews three entertaining books for the start of spring! More of Jeff’s reviews can be found on his blog: murdermayhemandlongdogs.comSimon & Schuster, $32.99A reality TV show goes terribly wrong in this latest thriller by Ruth Ware. Lyla reluctantly joins her boyfriend at an isolated resort in the Indian Ocean where a new show is being filmed. The rules of the game seem simple.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
girl.com.au | Robyn Harding |Catherine Steadman
In this paradise you won't like what you see . . .
When Nina's father dies, she inherits a gleaming dream vacation home in a balmy tropical paradise - one she had no idea existed. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How did her sensible father ever have enough money for this? And why not tell her about it? Desperate to uncover why he hid such a big secret, she decides to visit.
Maria, once an ambitious medical student, is now a nanny for the super-rich.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
bismarcktribune.com | Flynn Berry |Jacqueline Winspear |Joseph Kanon |Catherine Steadman
BOOKS | REVIEWSThere's a world of trouble in five new thrillers, with locations ranging from rural England to blood-spattered Madrid and 20th-century China. 'Trust Her'By Flynn BerryBerry's debut, "Under the Harrow," was a twisty thriller that began when a young woman went to the country to visit her sister, only to discover her corpse and a mess of secrets.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Catherine Steadman
As a lifelong reader, I have always lived by the old adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” However, when you’ve read as many books as I have, you have to be somewhat selective of the titles that get added to your TBR pile. To that end, I typically look at the flap copy and blurbs from other reviews. Having checked out the description of Catherine Steadman’s latest novel, I admit to not being super excited and thought it sounded like a plethora of other psychological thrillers that I have read.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Catherine Steadman
There is no clearer, or more dynamic, thriller plot than a protagonist desperate to stay alive in a lethal game of survival, and the five thrillers listed below deliver that ‘in spades.’ These authors have taken the thrill and fun of the games, and sports, we all love and subverted their innocent pleasure into life-threatening competition.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
novelsuspects.com | Catherine Steadman
The call is coming from inside the house’…might be one of the most ominous phrases around but you can’t deny there is no better hook in a thriller than finding that the location itself is the life threating obstacle preventing a character from leaving, either in body or in mind.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Catherine Steadman |Joseph Kanon |Juan Gómez-jurado |Flynn Berry
There’s a world of trouble in four new thrillers, with locations ranging the Caribbean to blood-spattered Madrid and deceit-filled China. ‘Look in the Mirror’By Catherine SteadmanBoth the most surprising and, ultimately, disappointing book on this list is this British Virgin Islands-set puzzler.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
reshsusan.substack.com | Catherine Steadman |Resh Susan
Dear Reader,Did you light your candles this year? One of my favourite newsletters last year was the one I wrote about lighting your candles instead of buying new ones or keeping them for special occasions. One year since, I am happy to report that I have indeed lighted all my candles in my precious collection. And it looks like they will last a whole year more (all the more reason to not go behind consumerist culture of getting new stuff every season).
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
likewise.com | Alex Michaelides |Stuart Turton |Catherine Steadman |Ruth Ware
Suggested bySavanna Major and upvoted by 2 othersThe Pushby Ashley AudrainLiked by 5.7KGone Girlby Gillian FlynnLiked by 272.0KPixGone Girl is a gripping psychological thriller that tells the story of a woman who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary. The book delves into themes of deception, manipulation, and the unraveling of a marriage. It's filled with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat. To add a comment, download the Likewise app from your device's app store.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Catherine Steadman
We all love a tradition, don’t we? Whether it’s been passed down to us or we’ve adopted it ourselves, traditions bond us as families, friends or communities. They give us a warm, cosy feeling that we are part of something bigger, doing what others have done long before us, letting us pleasingly sink into a long line of ancestors and future offspring. We are safe in numbers, in tradition; the rules are set and all we have to do is play our part. And traditions are fun, right?
