Kate spends the entire stay there analysing her husband and her three friends, one by one, trying to find some clue as to which one of her friends was doing this. She had a week to find out the truth and she was determined to find it. But will she succeed in her quest? Will she uncover the identity of her husband's secret lover? The holiday soon turns into a nightmare for Kate. She becomes paranoid and tension between her and Sean increases. Their friends sense that something is not right, but they all have problems and secrets of their own. Kate thought she knew her friends, but it turns out she didn't know them at all. She knows one thing though, that in one way or another, over the years, she has wronged them all. Was this some kind of revenge by one of them? An intriguing, fast-paced plot, short chapters and a number of twists and turns kept me interested in the story. Towards the end, the plot took a surprising turn I wasn't really expecting, however, in my opinion, the author tried to hurriedly tie up all loose ends in one final chapter and that to me felt a bit far-fetched.

Outstanding and very well-written debut psychological thriller. So gripping I genuinely found it difficult to put down, K. L. Slater, on LIES The Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club breakout thriller. Now a major TV drama on NETFLIX starring Jill Halfpenny Well, this book gripped me from the terrifying prologue and kept me hooked till the end. The suspense builds up throughout, keeping me on the edge of my seat. Like Kate, I wanted to find the truth, but I knew that something terrible was going to happen before the identity of the mysterious person is revealed. We have a good mix of characters, men, women and children, all life-like and realistic. I liked the general setting of the story, the author's vivid descriptions put the reader right there, in this huge, isolated villa with its own expansive grounds, including vineyards and woods. Four families who are supposedly friends brought together under the same roof for a whole week, instead of enjoying themselves, doing their best to hide secrets and suspecting each other.

About this book

The gripping Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club breakout thriller. Now a major TV drama on NETFLIX starring Jill Halfpenny Four women, who have been friends since their university days, book a relaxing holiday in a luxurious villa in the countryside of south France, together with their husbands and children. Kate is the main character and the majority of the book is written from her point of view. The book begins in Kate and her husband Sean's rental car as they're heading towards the villa to start the holiday with their two children. Another great read from T.M. Logan. I loved the intrigue - it makes you think twice about going on holiday with friends, B A Paris However Kate arrives on holiday with troubling things on her mind. Her husband's behaviour has been different of late. He has been distracted, working out and paying a lot more interest in his appearance and most noticeably never far from his mobile phone. She has made herself believe that he must be having an affair. Her eldest child Lucy is also giving her cause for concern. She appears troubled and hardly talks to her mother at the moment. Is this just a part of growing up or is there something more serious going on?

Taking her literally (and having filmed their conversation) Jake set out in his parents’ car and ran Alex over. Only it wasn’t long before Jenny discovered the truth and after learning Sean had spotted her son that night, she manipulated Kate’s husband into covering it up or risk Lucy being seen as the instigator. He was struggling to keep this to himself ahead of the holiday to Malta, exchanging messages with Jenny about it. I loved the way he uses more than one character to explain the same scene. Allowing us to read two completely different views of a moment. This was particularly well done in a scene with Kate overlooking one of the other husbands as he sits by the pool. For fans of Harlan Coben and Shari Lapena, and from the bestselling author of LIES, comes the Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club thriller. Take a holiday you won't forget . . . But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends.I got side-swiped by the plot twists and was totally taken up with the unfolding family resentments and dramas. T.M. Logan is at the top of his game. 5* to the beach read of 2019, CJ Carver One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. On arriving at the villa, Kate finds some messages on her husbands phone cementing her idea that he is having an affair but to make the discovery even more heartbreaking the messages read as if from another member of the holiday group. One of her old friends. She is devastated. Which one of them could do this to her? T.M. Logan’s chilling solution to The Holiday’s mystery revealed that Lucy had been cruelly humiliated by a boy at her school, Alex Bayley, who’d taken a video of her without her consent. Distraught, she’d told Jake about this and unintentionally inspired him to murder the boy when she said, “I wish he’d just f****** die!”

I also thought the way he describes the children was very well done. Some very likeable, some not! He captures the teenagers particularly well, including the role their mobile phones play in their everyday life. In fact the mobile phone features in nearly every one of the character be it for work or personal reasons and its use is considered quite deeply within the novel. The impact it has on conversation, the distance it can put between parent and child and even it's use within modern day parenting. It also adds to the tension in Kate's idea of her cheating husbands and I enjoyed the moments where she steals a look at it at every available opportunity.Kate and her 3 close friends from university have met up, once a year, to re-bond and stay in touch, however work and family life have occupied most of their time recently so they haven't seen each other in a while. With their 40th birthdays fast approaching they have all made the effort and along with their partners and children, are meeting up in a luxurious villa in France, for a weeks holiday in the glorious Mediterranean sunshine. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Provence.