The police never found a little girl called Ellie Hutton she disappeared and never found .
Another girl went missing and she was never found straight away .
I had an Arc from Blood hound

Ten years ago Ellie Hutton disappeared while walking home from school. The case was never solved.

Danny, Rob, Josh and Kieran were school chums back in the day when their classmate, Ellie Hutton, disappeared. Being typical teenage boys they didn't pay much attention to the news. They had bigger problems, namely, Calum Shepperd, Danny's older brother. Calum enjoyed terrorizing the boys on a daily basis in the most humiliating of ways. Finally, the boys having had enough, decide to take matters in their own hands for all the mental and physical torture they endured at the hands of Calum.

Now, back in the present, Cassie Rafferty has gone missing in similar circumstances, does Danny Shepperd know what has happened to these two missing girls?

He tracks down, with the help of a private investigator, his friends from the past and beckons their return to help him find Cassie and hopefully right the wrongs of their past but do two wrongs make a right?

I thought this story was incredibly gripping and Mark Tilbury wrote one of the most menacing villains I've read about in awhile but there were definitely some things I just could not overlook and these small details did detract from my full enjoyment of this novel. Mainly, I do not believe for a second that this would have escalated to the point it had or that so many adults were oblivious to what was happening. That being said this was an enjoyable read with one heck of a villain and that is something that I always appreciate. 3.5 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley & Bloodhound Books for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a fast paced, interesting thriller. We know from the synopsis what happened to Ellie but we don’t know how does it connect to Cassie. The writing is superb and the editing is at its best! This book does not have an ounce of flab to it. It’s crisp and to the point.
The story is based on a really dark personality. The pure evil nature of Callum makes me shudder. His mere presence makes the ambience seem darker and murkier. The impact his evil behavior has on so many lives is truly devastating. The choices the boys make as teenagers and as grown adults are questionable. What bothered me about the book was how oblivious the parents were to what was happening to their kids. I find it hard to believe that parents can be this blind to such severe trauma. This premise makes this an extremely dark read. If there were fifty share of dark, rest assured this is the darkest there is.
The ending has a nice twist to it. It made me sad to read it because it really shows how one dark shadow can ruin everything it touches. The characters are well developed and I appreciate how the author has taken the time to build the characters based on what they went through. The books starts off as suspenseful and gets even more so till such time that we go in to the flashback of what actually happened. The story builds well on how much bullying can impact a child’s life.
The writing style and plot remind me a lot of Stephen King’s style and I’ll definitely read more by this author.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloodhound books for giving me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
#NetGalley, #YouNelongToMe

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This is slightly reminiscent of Stephen King's IT. A private detective is hired by Danny Sheppard to deliver a written message to four of his friends .. the message being ..It's happening again. Please come.

Danny is the only one who has stayed in his hometown ... all the others left as soon as they possibly could and never went back. It's been 9 years and they are still haunted by what happened to them when they were 15-16 years old.

One turned to God ... another turned to drugs and alcohol ... another one started cutting .. and another one dreams of ways to kill himself.

A schoolgirl disappeared years ago and was never seen again ... except for Danny, his brother, and Danny's friends. They know what happened to her and exactly where she was buried.

The middle of the story takes the reader back to when these boys faced more horror than they could ever have imagined. They have never told another living soul what happened .. how it happened .... and who was responsible. They don't talk about how they were bullied, traumatized, threatened with death .. or worse by someone they know.

Now another girl is missing ... with a lot of similarity to the first missing girl. Danny knows who is responsible and what has happened to her. He vows it's going to turn out differently this time.... come hell or high water.

The final chapters have Danny and his friends reunited. All of them are terrified ... none of them want to be there ...

Highly suspenseful, this is a well written psychological thriller with twists and turns that just don't stop until the very last word on the very last page. Parts of this book sent chills up and down my spine. I couldn't wait to get to the end .. and yet, I was dreading it, too.

Each character is finely drawn and has a unique voice. Some the reader will like, some the reader will hate, and one, in particular, the reader will fear.

Many thanks to the author / Bloodhound Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of YOU BELONG TO ME for my reading pleasure. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

You Belong To Me by Mark Tilbury

5 stars

A great plot with a twist I never saw coming.

A fifteen-year-old girl, Cassie Rafferty, has gone missing in Feelham. The police are baffled but Danny Shepheard is sure he knows who is responsible, his brother Callum.

Ten years previously, another young girl, Ellie Hutton had disappeared in exactly the same circumstances. Danny and his three best schoolmates, Rob Wallace, Kieran Clarke and Josh McBain had all inadvertently got drawn into this crime. Calum’s psychotic behaviour to his younger brother has been going on for years, attacking him, killing his puppy, destroying his school work and Danny decides to enlist his three friends in an effort to punish Calum. They lure Calum to an abandoned cellar in order to threaten him but to their horror found Ellie near to death having been kidnapped and starved by Calum. Calum forces Rob to bury Ellie’s body with Kieran’s jumper so his DNA is present and swears all four of them to secrecy. He insists that they will be blamed for the murder if they breathe a word to anyone and the terrified 14-year-old boys agree.

All of the boys have suffered terrible traumas due to this horrific secret. Only Danny remains living in Feelham with his chain-smoking alcoholic mother. Calum has disappeared whereabouts unknown. The other three are trying to make lives elsewhere, Kieran has a wife and child but self-harms constantly. Josh is living in a derelict bedsit with no job and Rob is plagued with nightmares constantly.

Suddenly they all receive a notification from Danny imploring them to come back to Feelham. Danny needs their help to find Cassie and ensure that his brother is rightly accused this time as well as ensuring he admits to the previous murder.

None of them wants to return to a place and an event that haunts their lives but reluctantly they agree to help Danny track down both Calum and force him to tell them where he has hidden Cassie. The way this is planned and implemented is brilliant and the ending was totally unexpected for me and so clever.

I loved this book, it was completely plausible and the author gets inside the heads of the four boys when explaining how their whole lives have been ruined by the tragic circumstances that they have witnessed.

I now need to read Mark Tilbury’s earlier books!

Dexter

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This is a really good read that will keep you on your toes.
Four teenage boys don't have the best that life has to offer, but they are getting by.
Until one fateful day when they decide to seek revenge against Danny's brother, Calum, for a lifetime of abuse that he has waged against all of then. What the boys do will alter their lives.
The book starts several years later and another girl is misssing. Danny contacts the others and asks for their help, but is it too late?
The four men come together against Calum, Danny’s brother, and the story is told from the present day and also in the past when the other girl was taken.
This is a good mystery which I enjoyed.
Thanks to Bloodhound Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

The story starts off great. Cassie leaves her boyfriend's house, upset, distraught, and never makes it home. She is kidnapped walking home; world falling apart. Soon she is handcuffed to a pipe in a basement. This is a big story for a small town. Danny is home with his mother watching the news when the story airs. He knows he needs to bring his teenage friends back home and deal with this threat, which goes back 9 years to the last time they all saw each other. A private investigator and a short note telling them that it's happening again.

Rob, Josh, and Kieran don't want to return but they all feel like they have to return. Return to what it took them 9 years to try to forget. None were successful. All are still living their mistakes. The story unwinds as we flash back to the scene of the original crime and watch it happen. Maybe I have read too many books lately with ridiculous twists that I was looking for any that came. I wouldn't call it a twist, in this case. It wasn't over the top. It was simply a plot point. Moving through the events we wonder: What did they do? What did they see? Why have they not spoken to each other since?

I couldn't help feel a nod to King here. Children in a strange, outcast group. Their bully. The big event that they need to return to in order to have closure. The adults feel very King-like when they are drawn to return. There is even the wise-mouthed bespectacled one. Thanks for the advanced copy.

First things first, when you use a hook like this one, predicting a 'brilliant twist' right next to the title, it darn well better deliver. This one did not. In fact, that hook along with the tag line pretty much led me to the twist early on. That said, the story telling did hold my interest. It's a little over the top on the believability scale, and I found myself wondering why characters reacted in certain ways or did certain things, but had they made what I would consider the logical choices, there wouldn't have been much of a story. The author is certainly talented and did a wonderful job of creating a sinister atmosphere while still addressing the complex relationships between the characters. So, predictability and suspension of disbelief aside, I still enjoyed the book and will check out other works from this author.

This book oh man! It was a thriller, it kept me on my toes, there were twist and turns and oh my gosh did that just happen moments. I enjoyed this book and probably could have sat and read it all in one setting but I had to work! All in all this book is already a wonderful thriller for 2019!!

Holy page turner!! I thoroughly enjoyed this incredibly fast read. It started off perfectly well and didn't slow down at all. If you're looking for a murder mystery with a twist, I suggest you pick up You Belong to Me. #YouBelongToMe #NetGalley

There is dark and then there is Noir DARK. You Belong to Me is on the darker shade of that Noir scale. It was so gritty that I had to take breaks, sit the book down and come up for air. Yep, it's that good!

Let me tell you first - THERE ARE NO SPOILERS HERE! Unfortunately, I read a review for this book that, quite literally, gave away the twist at the end. And what a great twist it is, too. Or, it would have been if I had not had it spoiled for me!! WHY do people do that!? Reviews do not include spoilers people!! The ending of this book is worth the reading of the entire book! I love great twists at the end. I love them!
Briefly, this is the story of four teenage boys who already are living on the wrong side of the tracks. They don't have the best that life has to offer, particularly Danny, but they are making it okay. Until one fateful day when they decide to seek revenge against Danny's brother for a lifetime of abuse that he has waged against all of them but especially upon Danny. What happens to these boys, what they discover about the brother and about themselves, will alter their lives to an extent that the four of them barely eek out an existence into adulthood.

Now it is several years later and events have aligned to bring these men back together again. A girl is missing, these men have seen this before. Can they find her before it's too late? What happens to them now will shock you to your core. Did I mention dark and twisty!? Tibury's writing will have you gripping the book and tearing through the pages to the end. The characters are sad and heartbreaking, some of them I didn't even like, but they were real and very dimensional. I cared about them and I came to care about their fate! The storyline could have been have placed in midwestern America as well as Ireland or any place in Europe. It's universal in its bleakness. It is a well told tale. If you like noir, psychological thrillers then this is absolutely the book for you!

Thank you to #Netgalley, #BloodhoundBooks and #MarkTilbury for my advanced copy of this - did I mention dark - thrilling book!

This story frightened, horrified and thoroughly captivated me. I couldn’t put it down. This tale takes you down some truly twisted paths that followed me long after the last page. I had to keep a Google window open to translate some of the British slang I was unfamiliar with. I’d not read this author before and I’ll admit it will take some girding of the loins before I read anything like this again. If psychological thrillers are your thing you will enjoy this book.

I received this book from netgalley in exchange for my review.
The summary of this one seemed interesting. It was not what I expected but still a good read. Dark, and deeply disturbing in some places.
I know that the “twist ending” has become an expected cliche, but this one was not what I was thinking the whole time.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. New author for me and I, emphatically, can say I will not read him again! This book was very difficult to get into and once you do it is confusing the way it jumps around. I hope others enjoy it more than me.

Interesting and suspenseful tale with plenty of "aha!" moments, even for those like me who often figure out the plot before it's intended. The protagonists easily instilled empathy, while the dastardly were sufficiently cringe-worthy. This is a great book for enthusiasts of late-night chills, and is definitely recommended!

I love reading books by this author, each time he brings something new to the table. A psychological thriller with more than a touch of horror this is just up street. This is a very dark read so be warned!!!!!
I devoured this book. Four young boys now adults unite with memories of what they did. It has haunted them ever since. The details of what they did are shocking and as for the ending WHAM!!!!!
This is a fantastic and a must read for readers of these genres. More please NOW !!!!!. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and an easy five stars.

I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me abit of Stephen King's Stand By Me for some reason.
Loved the twist at the end.

Another fantastic offering from Mark Tilbury although I would say this is definitely less dark and brutal than some of his others. That aside, one of this author's talents is the creation of totally loathsome and deviant characters, and another is his ability to totally mess with your head. Both of these are here in bucketloads! Fifteen year old Ellie Hutton disappeared on the way home from school ten years ago and was never found. Now another girl has gone missing. Danny Sheppard gets a message to each of three of his former school friends, none of whom have seen each other since leaving school - "it's happened again". Quite a portion of the book is given over to the four friends reliving what happened to them in the past at the hands of Danny's evil older brother Callum and the rest of it tells the present day story. These young men are all severely mentally damaged by past events, and it is clear that they have all had problems in either seeking or finding help. I think this difficult aspect was very well portrayed by the author. Now meeting up again it's clear that something or someone will crack soon but can they put the past right in time? The pace and dark intensity keeps up right to the end of the book with an ending that will surprise a lot of readers. Superb!!

An interesting read, but it dragged in some spots and felt like it could have been shorter. Certain party’s were really dragged out. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the copy in exchange for review.

Mark Tilbury books are renown for his style of writing which I personally enjoy.

This one was slightly moving away from his usual supernatural/thriller type books which I loved.

The style in which he compelled the reader to move forward step by step, inch by inch. I didn’t have to work my brain too hard with this one it was very enjoyable to sit back with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy this adventure the authors taken me on.

The subject matter involves something that happened in this group of lads youth.
When first reading I kept wondering what on Earth was going to be revealed to me, the reader?

When we move on to the present day it made sense.

Did I like the storyline?
I did.

I love this authors quips, I’ll just quote,,,

“Four eyes”? That’s original. I’d better write that one down and remember it for when I’m stuck for something intelligent to say”

I loved the quips and remarks between the lads. And even when they got older.

These are my thoughts, and I think a “review” is not sitting on judgement of a book, it’s a persons thoughts from what they took from it. And I loved it. It’s not “edge of your seat” but a very very enjoyable read.

My enjoyment was 10/10
My ratings are 3.75