This book is exactly why Katerina Diamond is my favourite author. Shocking twists and turns if ever there were any!

Why has a girl gone missing 16 years ago and again recently? Flick has to go back to Sidmouth and try to figure it out but she must overcome her own fears from the memories of that summer. What happened to everyone?

Told from the perspective of Flick but then also from Jasmine's. Just as you came to a gasp-out-loud moment, Katerina starts a new chapter with the opposite narration. Brilliant. Flick is first person narrative and Jasmine is out with. You have to get used to that change.

So much going on but written with such ease in order to follow the plot. I was very much looking forward to reading a standalone novel by Katerina to see if there was a difference to her series but this is just as gripping.

Once again I highly recommend this book

A great whodunnit as always from Katerina Diamond. A young woman leaves her home town. Sets a new life with a husband and family. But what are the secrets from her past that she can’t share. When she hears on the local news that a girl has gone missing from her old town, she knows she has to return and face the demons of the past. It’s a painful journey for her to relive but she’s knows she must do it. A clever crime thriller with a massive twist at the end. Really enjoyed it! A page turning read during lockdown.

Utterly engaging, could not put this book down. I kept thinking I had it all figured out then another clue would drop to make me realise I had it all wrong.

I really enjoyed the story and the authors way of writing . Entertaining and twisted , everything I love In a book !!I would like to read more by this author !!

WOW!! Don’t start this one at night! You’ll never get the first wink of sleep! What a well written thriller!

It starts out pretty mundane with hubby, wife and 2 children in English suburbia (???). The wife sees something distressing on the TV news and knows that she must go back where she grew up to find out just what’s going on and to lay to rest the demons from her own life. This is the same situation that happened 16 years previous when she was living in that place.

The story is told in a series of alternating first person memories by our protagonist and her best friend who (we learned) died in that fateful time 16 years ago. This aspect of the plotting was confusing from time to time and I had to remind myself just who the speaker was. However, in the end I realized the author’s genius for doing it that way! Well crafted!

My only complaints about this book were the title and the artwork on the cover. Neither had anything to do with the story. I’ve noticed a couple of other new books lately with titles that have nothing – whatsoever – to do with the plot and have wondered about that.

I will definitely look for more books by Katerina Diamond! I’m so very thankful to have discovered her.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes psychological suspense.

Well, this book is a slow growing, hum dinger!

The story picked me up, spun me round, and dropped me back in my reading chair! 

This was a slow burner for me, with the first chapter feeling a bit weird. Like I had been dropped into a swimming pool to suddenly find that I needed to sit an exam in five minutes  - a bit surprising, out of blue and took me a while to settle in after this. But I am so glad that I kept reading.

The story is dark, emotional and so so clever. I love the snips of information that are drip fed for a reader ‘a-ha’ moment. The range of emotions portrayed is done so with an authentic telling. And I love the darkness which sits within the final pages!

The characters are deep, complex and have their own dark, if not sinister, secrets. Each character is fully developed, with a meaningful background. The revelations at the end of the book are ground breaking and shocking. This ending shows the strength of some and the evil in others. Sometimes evil can hide in the kindest of places.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publishers for asking me to read and review.
This story was a wonderful read.
It is well written with some great characters and as a reader you feel you are right there with them. The plot draws you in and keeps you turning those pages.
A brilliant, heartwarming read.

I raced through this book in one day
It leaps between the present and sixteen years earlier when Felicity was a teenager. The characters were really well drawn. And the ending came as a big surprise.

This writer conned me from the start. The deception was so brilliant that I had to back to the start of the book to check how deceived I was and so carefully. Clearly, Chris didn't know, but he was only the husband. So many times I believed what was coming next, sometimes it did and often it didn't. This novel takes a twisted story view of now and then to bring the deception together.

The twists and turns make the novel a wonderful read. I always wanted to turn the next page. It offers various options at each stage of the story and the reader wonders what will happen next.

I wonder how a girl keeps such a pack of secrets for so long. I'm pleased I wasn't there when the various confrontations brought the story to a head. I would have exited quickly..

Each character has at least two sides. This excellent writer shares each side as the reader wonders how the most recent evolution will bring out more clues.

A mystery and thriller, the unravelling must be read quickly. I can't wait to read more by this writer.

This is the first book by Katerina Diamond I have read and I enjoyed it for most of the time. I found it a bit over descriptive in parts but that was easy to skim through. Felicity hears that a 16 year old girl has gone missing from her home town in Devon. She feels the need to leave her home in the Lake District and travel back to try to save the girl if she can. What secrets from her childhood s she hiding? How is this affecting her marriage and family?

The book keeps you guessing throughout and you can't wait to find out how it ends. The ending is very good with lots of twists and turns along the way. A good thriller of a read.

Thank you to Netgalley, Avon Books UK and the Author Katerina Diamond for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
OH MY GOSH! All I can say is WOW! What an awesome book.
This book is the epitome of a psychological thriller.
Never ending twists and turns.
My first read by this Author and certainly won't be my last!

This is a very good book to read. I couldn't decide whether to give it 4 or 5 stars but decided on rounding down. The book offers alternate chaptering (not sure if chapter can be used as a verb!) between 'now' - Flick's return to Sidmouth and 'then' - details of the build up to what happened 15 years ago and why Flick left Sidmouth so abruptly.
The book is very clever and has a number of good twists and turns. I think I may have spoiled the book a little for myself as I had surprisingly managed to work out/guess the main twist at a fairly early point.
I have not read any of Katerina's previous books but I would certainly like to do so in the future.
Highly recommended

This is an amazing read. I was hooked from the beginning trying to work out who the murderer was. Definitely did not see the twist at the end coming - it’s a rabbit out the hat moment! I’ll definitely be recommending this book to my customers.

The Heatwave # Netgallery
It's 5.43 am and I have just finished reading the heatwave. It's another book that is the fight pace that keeps you wanting more and mote. I don't know if done of you get !like myself. I am tired and if at just one more chapter,at the end of that chapter you quickly glance at the click however you say again just one more chapter. Knowing full well when yor finish that chapter you are going to say it again and again, with a book so gripping like this one you just keep kidding yourself each time you say it. The twists and turns just keep coming like you have been whizzed around on the Walters in fairground after Tim tells Jasmine what he thinks it's not surprising she really is a bit messed up not wanting it to be right, there are times when you think no I i know who it is only to find yourself being wrong again. Although I neververw expected the final twists so once again another cracking book From such a brilliant writer Katrina diamind. Ps I am making a few brilliant

The Heatwave is a fantastic British mystery/thriller that kept me reading late into the night. I haven't read anything by Katerina Diamond before and have to admit I had never heard of her. After reading Heatwave I want to read all of her books! Felicity, a mum of two, returns to her hometown after she finds out a teenage girl has gone missing. Felicity hasn't been home since she was sixteen. She left town, never to return, after a teenage girl from her school disappeared. Somehow the disappearances are linked and Felicity wants answers. With thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my ARC.

Another great book from this author. This time we follow Felicity who is travelling back to the place she grew up in and left 16 years ago due to the disappearance of a young girl. As the story echos one of her past she is forced to confront her demons and finally face up to the past as she tries to solve the mystery not only of the current missing child but also what happened 16 years ago. Are these disappearances connected and if so what is the link to Felicity. Dark and twisted it will keep you hooked till the very end.

A book set in two different time periods, then and now. I found I enjoyed the ‘then’ elements far more than the ‘now’ as I found Felicity’s narrative quite annoying at times. It was ok when she was dealing with the here and now but there were too many hints and vague comments for me. I presume it was to add to the suspense but I find too much dramatic tension without any substance rather off putting.
It was not enough to make me stop reading though, just made me roll my eyes although it did improve in the last third of the book.
The ending was good however and tied together all the different elements. Overall a fairly easy to read book with mystery and twists. I would rate it around 3 and a half stars.

Tense chilling Katerina Diamond is an author’ who never fails.A true page turner multi layered kept me guessing to the end.A thriller Inwill be recommending.#netgalley#avonbooksuk

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I really like this author and this book did not disappoint, fast paced, page turning thriller that will have you hooked all the way through.

I think I set my expectations too high for this book.

I'm a HUGE fan of Katerina's Detective Imogen Grey series, it's one of my favourite series ever so I suppose subconsciously I was expecting the same wow factor that each one of those gives me.

I also think the fact that this is my go to genre might have ruined things for me because you come to expect a certain 'pizzazz' from a physiological thriller and this just didnt quite hit the mark.

It was quite slow going and didnt overly excite me, there wasn't much suspense and in all honesty I didnt feel a connection to any of the characters, it felt more plot driven than character driven so they weren't as developed as I'd have liked.

Now don't get me wrong, its extremely well written, easy to read and flows seamlessly, like all of this authors books and I'm 100% sure that if it's not your usual genre or you haven't read the authors previous works you will LOVE it, I think I just prefer the series of books instead of the stand alone (by this author!)

Also a small point that niggled me, i found the cover and title quite misleading. The title is quite irrelevant as apart from a small mention of a heatwave and the fact is was the summer it doesn't really fit with the story and the cover reminds me of some exotic location with a good old murder mystery.. but that's purely my opinion obviously!

Personally I think it's more a mystery than a thriller but would be a good book for a first in this genre.

3*

Thanks to netgalley and Avon Books UK for the ARC.