This book definitely kept me guessing. At one point in the story I thought to myself, "Oh this book is only going to get like maybe 3 stars. I've got this all figured out." Then bam! I was completely wrong. It was the perfect combination of drama, thriller, and mystery all rolled in to one. There was even a splash of romance to tie it all together for me.

I will never look at Wednesdays the same again!
This book had me hooked from the beginning. It was filled with suspense and drama and I really enjoyed it. It was a little slow paced but the twists and turns keep me entertained nonetheless. I would definitely recommend this to psychological thriller lovers.

Thank you Netgalley and Amazon Publishing UK for an e copy of this book.

I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll is an entertaining thriller about a reporter, stalked by a mystery man, with no reason she can determine. Lots of twists along the way, including the reporter’s own past catching up with her. While the PI working her case keeps trying to track down the stalker, attention gets diverted to the reporter’s ex fiancée who has just been paroled. This takes our eye off the ball, and the final scenes are quite unexpected, with a fascinating reveal. A good read.

For Alice, a journalist for a small local paper, Wednesday's have become a nightmare. Every Wednesday comes with a new attack from an unknown source. Police become involved, as does a private investigator, hired by her boyfriend Tom. The attacks escalate in their threat and Alice fears not only for her safety, but that of her ill mother and sister. Hidden secrets come out that lead the police to a suspect, but are they on the right track?

The story is told from the perspectives of Alice, the private investigator (Matthew), and the stalker. We are lead through the development of fear in victims of aggressive stalking and the frustrations with limited ability of actions to protect the victim. I Will Make You Pay is full of suspense and is a very enjoyable read. And while it is a little predictable, I found myself second guessing my predictions many times.


Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC of this novel.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. This about Alice Henderson a journalist an you kind of get hooked on the storyline as it evolves. Would recommend.

An excellent thriller with drama and mystery that pulls you in with an underlying suspense and fear of what will happen next.
Some individuals are afraid of “things” but Alice is afraid of “Wednesday’s”. She is a journalist and one Wednesday she answers an incoming line of the paper and is threatened to be harmed.
Figuring it was just a crank call she refuses to be bothered by it, even though it seemed to be personally directed to her. When the next Wednesday comes and she receives a “gift” at the paper, she finally believes that she is being stalked.
As each Wednesday arrives her stalker seems to be escalating and her fear becomes more evident. There are plenty of misdirections and suspects to keep you guessing until the unexpected is revealed. Thank you Netgalley and Bookoture for an early copy. I voluntarily read this ARC and the above review and comments are my honest opinion

I Will Make You Pay is a slow burn mystery that still caught me off guard at the end. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into the novel and I was pleasantly surprised with the result.

Alice is a journalist and if you have read my past reviews, you know that I’m not a fan of journalists as main characters. I did like Alice even though she has made some questionable choices, both in present day and in the past. The novel also had a lot of Matthew’s view (the private investigator), which I was confused about. I’m not really sure how much of his interactions with his daughter and wife were necessary. It didn’t add anything to the story, especially to the main stalker story line.

I wish there was a bit more in terms of the stalker. The end of the novel did have the reasons for why the stalker was doing what they were doing, but I wish it was shown earlier. Also I didn’t see the creepiness factor with the stalker. I wasn’t as scared for Alice as I should of been.

I liked it, but there was still some things that I found were lacking or could of been improved upon. I will keep my eye out for Teresa Driscoll’s future novels.

Thank you to Netgallery and Amazon Publishing UK for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is a very well written psychological thriller. It is full of suspense and intrigue. It was interesting from page one. I will definitely read more of this authors books

Second book from this author for me and she didn't disappoint. The ending wasn’t what I was expecting and I wanted the book to explain a little more since to me something was missing.

Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This thriller was a really good, quick read. The chapters alternate between Alice's POV and "his - before". I enjoyed finding out the backstory of Him, and finding out his motives for the things that he was doing to Alice.
This book had me leaning backwards and forwards between a couple of people of who Him could be. Driscoll writes the novel so that you're always second guessing yourself once you decide on a person.
Thoroughly enjoyed and would definitely recommend.

There's an insurance commercial that makes me laugh when I see it. It's on the set of a scary movie and girls are screaming and running toward the bad guy. A voice says, "If you're in a horror movie, you make poor decisions." Isn't that the truth! Anyway, as I began I'll Make You Pay I had flashes of that commercial when I found myself talking to my ipad, "What are you doing??" and "Don't do that!"

Alice is a journalist and she is passionate about her job. She starts getting disturbing calls once a week on Wednesdays. She becomes worried when the calls get increasingly more personal and is convinced she's being stalked. She and her boyfriend, Tom, decide to hire a private investigator to look into the calls and provide security for Alice. Matthew is the investigator and he works closely with a friend in the police department. Together they try to provide as much security as they can while trying to get leads on the stalker. In the mean time Alice takes time off work and spends time with her mother who lives in assisted care. I liked the compassion she had toward her mother through the novel and let old wounds heal when her sister offers her support. Despite Alice's attempts to distance herself, the stalker closes in.

The novel is told in alternating viewpoints which moves it along. One is Alice presently and dips into her past a bit. The second one starts out as a young boy living with his grandmother until he is an independent adult. Who is he? The great aspect of this novel is that there were numerous suspects that kept me guessing. Twists and turns with a 'wow!' ending. This is a great psychological thriller, a good pace, and with characters I cared about.

Thank you NetGalley, Thomas & Mercer, and Teresa Driscoll for an advanced copy.

I received a free electronic copy of this British psychological thriller on September 8, 2019, from Netgalley, Teresa Driscoll, and Amazon Publishing UK. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest personal opinion of this work. This is a book I am pleased to refer to friends and family. If thrillers are your game, Teresa Driscoll is for you, too.

We see this novel unfold from the viewpoints of Alice Henderson, a journalist from the present; "Him", whom we visit from early childhood to full adulthood as he pops back and forth through time; and Matthew Hill, mid-thirties, a former cop, now a private investigator with a wife and a daughter two years old.

We have a mess of other distractions. Jack Trenter is a widower, a co-worker whom Alice invited to dinner several months ago and made an embarrassing overture, which was not reciprocated. Alice is secretive about her past and vulnerable where her family is concerned. Well, she thought she was secretive - except for her occasional personal column in the paper. Her sister Leanne is a wealthy Londoner with children, and their mother is in assisted living in the life-ending stages of COPD. The threats against them carry directly back to some of Alice's personal columns.

Alice is considered an up-and-coming journalist by her peers. She has covered, from its inception, the necessity for a tear-down of low-income housing in South Devon, with the temporary relocation of all the residents until they can be permanently installed in new housing to be built in the same location. No one can see a connection between her work and her stalker. There was really no opposition to the modern, additional housing needed for South Devon. She is interested in but not fully committed to boyfriend Tom Stellar. It is a fairly new relationship.

"Him" is a very damaged, unhappy adult, as he was as a child. Raised by his only living relative, his elderly granny, he was bright, but never learned to fit in with others, and with the recent death of his granny, he is lost.

By the second Wednesday's catastrophe, it begins to occur to Alice that someone really is out to get her. Or wait - this would be the third Wednesday in a row she was threatened. She didn't recognize the first episode except in retrospect. Though the police are now involved, there is no pattern to the threats other than their arrival on Wednesday. Alice is fairly sure that even were she to reveal her own personal secret, it couldn't help the police find her stalker. Wednesday becomes an impossible day for her to get through. Every week the damage escalates and Alice finds herself closed in, not able to work because it could jeopardize her co-workers, finding herself in constant fear for herself and her family, in daily contact with the police and Matthew, the PI Tom hired to shadow her on Wednesdays, and of course more and more dependent on Tom.

Then secrets begin to surface. Who is Jennifer Wallace? Why does Alice keep running into Jack? What - if anything - does the Maple Hill House Complex have to do with Alice's Wednesday terrorist? Who is "Him"?

3.5

Second by this author, even better than the first.

The story was interesting, great characters and I liked the three different narrators. It builds slowly but that’s not without some twists and turns.

Alice was a great character. She felt real, sensible and, unlike the tide of unreliable narrators, quite solid in her recollection of events. Matthew was likable though often sidetracked by his daughter and “the terrible two’s”. He does redeem himself a bit as time goes on. The third narrator (our possible stalker) is probably the most interesting bits and quite raw.

There are quite a few red herrings. When the conclusion broke I was surprised, which is quite fun. This was quite entertaining, would recommend.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and Amazon Publishing UK for a copy in exchange for a review.

Alice Henderson is a reporter at a newspaper. One Wednesday, she answers the phone and is told by the caller that they wish to hurt her with a cheese slicer. Of course this is some kind of prank, right? When the following Wednesday comes round and something else happens to Alice, it becomes time for everyone to take it more seriously. Her boyfriend hires a private eye and her paper tells her to take some time off until the police can get to the bottom of things. What Alice cannot figure out is who might want to hurt her or scare her. Could this be someone who is stalking her because of the articles she has written or is it something from the past? The police and private eye come up with something eye opening about her past.... will they stop believing that she is not responsible for what is happening to her?

Driscoll's book is a quick and easy read. The characters are believable, and I could not help but care about what was happening to Alice and I kept turning pages to find out what would happen next. There is no way to figure this one out.... the twist at the end took me by surprise. Driscoll is good at the slight of hand in this book. A good read.

Although I found myself starting slowly with this, I did end up enjoying it and actually read it pretty quickly once I gave it the time.
Literally everyone in the story was a suspect - and with good reason - at one point they all had things that could mame them Alice's stalker.
I loved that it wasn't obvious and although I'm sure many people will choose a different person to have as their main suspect, the reveal isn't until near the very end of the book, so keeps you hanging on.
The story was consistent, with no drop, so it kept my interest throughout.
I have only rated this slightly lower due to it leaning more towards a crime book than a thriller for me.

Having read ‘I am watching you’ by this very talented author I was very excited to have the chance to read her new book via Net Galley.
I enjoyed the story very much. The ‘then’ and ‘now’ storyline gives us the background on the perpetrator and why he is doing what he is doing, not wanting to give any spoilers!

Very well written, good depth to characters and a good pace to the story.

‘I am going to use cheese wire on you’ That’s what he says.
And so the story begins on a Wednesday afternoon when Alice answers the office phone to a distorted voice.
Is it a prank? Does someone hold a grudge against her? Then something happens the following Wednesday which makes her believe she is the target of some sort of stalker.
Can her skills as a reporter help her track him down?

Would definitely recommend this book.

Being stalked has to be really scary. Not to know who you can trust or what is going to happen next has to be the worst feeling. In this story Alice knows that Wednesday is the day to be extra observant and to expect nothing good. I wasn't sure who would turn out to be the stalker. Sure, I had my suspicions but in the end it was someone entirely else and the motive was something I didn't see coming.

“Every Wednesday ,like clockwork ,the terror returns.”

I Will Make You Pay is an emotional thrill ride. This psychological thriller has Alice, who is a journalist being stalked & threatened & it escalates into other aspects of her life. It starts with just a phone call. Her life is turned upside down with many twists & turns along the way. You will read 2 different points of views as told by Alice & the stalker. You will learn their life story. The ending is shocking as to who the bad guy is.I do love a thriller that keeps you guessing. I enjoyed her writing & would recommend this book. It was my first read by Teresa Driscoll.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author & Amazon UK Publishing for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book was phenomenal. I absolutely loved the main character, Alice, and how believable she way. I truly wanted to just give her a hug and tell her it would be okay. I think the scariest part about this book for me is that it could happen to anyone and it does happen everyday. Stalking is a real thing that happens and must be taken seriously. So often in thrillers the plots can be over the top and not have real life implications but this one very much does. I read most of it in one day and couldn't stop trying to figure out who the stalker was. In the end, I WAS SHOCKED. This book duped me and I'm not even mad about it. This book is one of the best thrillers I have read in a good while and I truly loved every second of it. Driscoll may be one of my new favorite authors.

This was a fast paced thriller that kept the reader turning pages late into the night. Driscoll did a nice job of showing the fear Alice felt and keeping the reader in the dark about the identity of the stalker. She paints a good picture of the why over time, but does a great job of hiding the who...she also did a nice job of throwing in the red herrings along the way. A little on the creepy side, it is also contains a very sweet story of the love between a mother and daughter. Well crafted and twisty, this was a very enjoyable read.