I am left speechless! Brilliantly written suspenseful thriller! The story jumps from past to present with ease. I can not believe how many twists and turns this book had. If you have not read this book, then why not?!?! Go! Buy it now, I promise you will not be disappointed.

Katerina Diamond has very quickly become one of my favourite authors and when I found out that the new book would be outside of the realms of the regular Gray and Miles series I was intrigued and thankfully I was not disappointed.

Following 2 separate timelines we meet Felicity and Jasmine, two best friends from Devon, whose lives change dramatically over one long hot summer. Set in the present Felicity is completely shell shocked when she learns of the disappearance of a teenage girl from her childhood hometown. She knows that this is not just a one off and becomes intent on returning to the past to try and get to the bottom of this mystery but how does her past life have any impact on what is happening now? Jasmine's narration, on the otherhand, takes us back in time to the summer of the first disapperance in their home town and introduces to the mysterious and suspicous Tim. Jasmine is automatically suspicious of Tim when her parents move him in as a lodger. Could he have something to do with the disappearances? As both timelines reveal more and more detail suddenly the story twists in the most spectacular way and the true story is revealed in the most shocking way.

As always Katerina Diamond knows how to keep the reader hooked and hanging on her every word. I mean you get a twist and then the twist twists again! Bravo! Definitely made my lockdown a lot more interesting.

This was not the best of Katerina Diamonds books but I still enjoyed it, thank you netgalley for giving me. The opportunity to read an early edition of this book.
Felicity ran away from her home to escape the terrible things she knew.
Sixteen years later she is married and with two children, but felicity knew she had to go back to her childhood home to,see if she could put right all the terrible things she knew.
On her return felicity had to face her nightmares and try to find the missing girl.

Wow! This is one gripping psychological thriller! I absolutely devoured this in an afternoon, seriously could not put it down. Katerina Diamond’s stand alone The Heatwave is just as intense and twisty as her Miles and Grey series. You need to read this book, you really do. This book deserves to be a massive hit.

The story begins with Felicity watching a news story about a missing 16 year old girl in her hometown of Sidmouth in Devon. A hometown that she never talks about. She immediately packs her bags and leaves her husband and kids and heads back to the beachside town. She is convinced that this disappearance is somehow connected to her and wha happened when she was 16..

From here the story jumps between the present with Felicity looking into what happens to the girl and the past, told by Jasmine, Felicity’s best friend growing up. Slowly the truth of why she has returned becomes clear. The demons of her past are coming back to haunt her, a past that she has tried she hard to forget.

Thanks to Avon Books UK and NetGalley for my advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and are in no way biased

Wow!
I felt that at the start of this book I kept getting easily distracted, it did take a bit of time for me to start getting drawn in and understand what was happening.
The book flips between Now and Then and pieces of the puzzle gradually start falling into place.
Then everything is blown out of the water and it just gets crazy!!!
Twist after twist until your head is spinning - I absolutely loved the second half of the book when I couldn’t put it down. Well worth the build up to get to the point of complete free fall into psychotic thriller world!!!! Yes a new genre called psychotic would fit the characters in this novel quite well!!
I would recommend this as a fabulous summer read and rated it 4⭐️.

This is an odd mystery in that it is difficult to discern the ending...usually this doesn’t happen. The protagonist returns home to face the ghosts that formed her life...the guilt and the memories. As the reader journeys with her, there are surprises at every turn. Although it would have been better to k or more about her present life, the story is totally in the past. Characters come and go and one doesn’t get to know any of them well. That being said, this is a mystery that makes the reader want to know more.

The story is told from two different timelines, present by Felicity and past by Jasmine. It definitely played with my head as how those two timelines will merge together. Felicity decided to go back to her hometown when she heard about missing girl in the news just like what happened sixteen years ago.
Absolute brilliant story !!!

My first book by this author and it certainly won't be my last. I was so invested in this story and I was shocked with the twists and turns. Shockingly good.

No1 Thriller Read of 2020.
This story is epic, I read this book on a day I was hooked from the first chapter, a very special book to do that. It's the most exciting take I have read for a long time. I have read all Katerina's books and really enjoy them so I had high expectations of this book and it exceeded my expectations.

The story and Jasmine is told in the past and your never quite sure who is telling the now story. The deaths are fascinating, really they are how and why and not until the end do we find out who did it as any good book aims. I was so confused trying to work out who did it all the way through, it's why I could not put it down. I had to know.

Beautifully written with excitement and intrigue in buckets, character development is A plus, you get to feel like your in Jasmine's shoes willing her to seek and find. This is straight into number 1 in my 2020 reads. Fantastic Thriller, anyone who loves a who dunit will love this book.



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The Heatwave by Katerina Diamond is another intriguing thriller from an author who never fails to miss her mark. This one drew me in immediately, and continued to keep me enthralled throughout.

Told in alternating timelines of 'then' and 'now' which, as a sidenote, I find most effective, we learn that Felicity has returned to her hometown sixteen years after the disappearance of a young woman. It seems that history is repeating itself, and once again a young woman has gone missing. Are the two cases connected? Felicity suspects that she might very well be the link to unravelling the mystery, and must revisit a past that has haunted her for so many intervening years.

This is a well-crafted mystery, and more than once I could feel a trickle of dread running down my spine, in both the past and present narratives. Well done Ms Diamond for a highly enjoyable read.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for this ARC.

As ever, Ms Diamond writes tremendously well even with the dual timeline (not always my favourite) which she labels 'Then' and 'Now'.

The book open with Felicity travelling from her home in The Lake District to her childhood home of Sidmouth in Devon where she is made to face her past - following the disappearance of a teenage girl. A similar event happening sixteen years ago when Felicity was living with her parents.

The schooldays past is where we meet Felicity's school friend Jasmine and her parents and the mysterious Tim who is their lodger. Jasmine is more reserved whilst Felicity is out there and wanting attention from boys. Different characters but great friends. No stone is left unturned by the author in characterisation of these three, Flick, Jazz and Tim - superb.

A slow, meandering start to the book with Felicity trying to piece together the two events. Plenty of twists in this believable, classy psychological thriller with a brilliant ending which I did not foresee!

I am not sure about the title - mine would be "Sunshine and savagery in Sidmouth'?

Thanks to Net Galley and Avon Books for the chance to read and review.

Finally a thriller that actually delivers thrilling pages and a few big twists towards the end. I read this very quickly because it is one of those books that you really want to know how they end. I had a few suspicions and some proved to be right but the twists were many and some quite unpredictable.

Felicity lives in the Lake District with a lovely husband and two kids, she hears on the news that in the village where she lived with her parents a teenage girl goes missing. She decides to go back to investigate because a girl went missing there 16 years before and she thinks the cases could be linked. Strange as the person who she thought was the killer of the first girl died, or so she thought.
This is a complex story with plenty of dark secrets that will keep you awake.

It is a psychological thriller but it is also one of those books with two timelines one set 16 years earlier and the second one follows Felicity in the present trying to solve a mystery linked to the past. It is the second book I read by Katerina Diamond and I will certainly read more, it might not be great literature when all is considered but in the psychological thriller genre is definitely well above average.

This is not my first Katerina Diamond book. I've read all her books so far, but this book is a standalone. I was excited and a bit nervous reading this one,but Katerina did not disappoint.
The book flits between past and present, at first i got confused but after a few chapters, i was on track.
The story centres around the abduction of 2 girls in a seaside town 16 years apart. Throughout the whole book i had a hunch, and much to my surprise i was totally wrong!! Katerina delivers twists and turns in this book that in my opinion were completely unexpected.
Im a huge fan of Katerina's books, and my heart has always been with Miles and Grey, but The Heatwave really shows what a great author she is. After having such a successful series, Katerina has gone for a standalone which did not disappoint. I didnt find this book as dark aa her other books, but The Heatwave was still a brilliant piece of writing. 100% recommend if like me you are a Katerina fan.
Thanx to net galley for allowing me the chance to read in exchange for this review

Exciting book to read. Started with a bang which had me hooked from the off. It was well written. Great plot and I really enjoyed reading it,

Firstly a big thank you to Avon for approving my request to read on netgalley. I am a huge fan of Katerinas books so was excited to read her first standalone thriller!
It didnt dissapoint and this will be a roaring success.

Fast paced and completly unpredictable.

Will have you hooked straight away.

Chilling yet steamy as set in a blistering heatwave. Atmospheric writing that captures these elements and transports you there.

Relatable characters and we all have skeletons in our closets dont we?

Highly recommend whether you are new to her books or a loyal fan.

This was a really dark gripping psychological thriller, with a twist at the end which I just didn't see coming.

In this book you follow a woman called felicity, who lived in a town where one hot summer a stranger arrived and a girl disappeared. 16 years later, another girl goes missing and she goes back to her home town to face the truth of what happend all those years ago.

This was a really well written pacey psychology thriller. I love Katerina Diamonds books and this one certainly didn't let me down.

This would be such a perfect read for the summer. I can defintely see this being a popular thriller this summer season. The setting, of the heatwave makes this a perfect pool side read.

If you love the trope of following someone coming back to their home town to solve a mystery a long time later, I bet you will love this book.

I did not see the ending coming. There was a massive twist. But there was some smaller twists throughout the book which I thought were really clever.

I loved that it was set in a British seaside town too, I could really picture the book in my head while reading.

Overall, I really enjoyed this dark psychological thriller. I really recommend you pick it up this summer!

TW: inappropriate adult minor relationships, suicide, violence and murder

I’ve read a couple of Katerina Diamond’s books before and really enjoyed them, even though they can be pretty dark (if you’ve read The Woman in the Water then you’ll probably know what I’m talking about 😅), so I was excited to find out she had written a stand alone book that wasn’t part of her detective series. And I wasn’t disappointed! This book is fab - flitting between the past and the present as a missing girl case draws parallels to something that happened in a coastal town when the main character was a teenager. The main character seems very dubious and unreliable at first, not giving much away apart from a sense of mystery, but as the book goes on, the pieces start to fall into place and all becomes clear. This book provides twists, turns, red herrings and keeps you guessing right up until the very end - a great summer read. The Heatwave is published on June 25th 2020 in the UK and is available for pre-order now.

Katerina Diamond is one of my favourite authors I was very surprised this book wasn't in the Grey and Miles series that I have grown to love so much. But in reality that didn't matter because this book was fantastic, full of twist and turns throughout. There were so many moments when I found my self saying out loud 'what, no way' and that was throughout.

The heatwave follows two characters Jasmine and Felicity. We are in teo different time zones Jasmine is telling us the past and Felicity is in the present. Felicity finds herself drawn to a news broadcast about a local teenager who has been kidnapped. The reason she is drawn to this story is because the very same thing happened 16 years earlier. Throughout the story we get to learn alot about Felicity and Jasmine, their friendship and why Felicity had left 16 years earlier. The two stories come together extremely well.

As always Diamonds writing is fantastic I love the way the chapter flip seamlessly from first to third person when description are being used. She does such a great job to convince us that our versions of the characters are correct. Ha how wrong I was. .

I absolutely lived this book for it so easy to get hooked on and I constantly found myself wanting more. Even when it ended I felt I want more to find out more information, even though everything had been explained and explored. I felt I wanted to just be a fly on the wall of the future.
Highly recommend if you want a summer read, but like me love a good psychological thriller this is the book for you.


Thank you Avon books UK and netgalley for allowing me to have an early copy of this book

I have to admit Katerina Diamond is one of my favourite authors, so I was jumping for joy to get the chance to review this book.

Felicity is dismayed to see on the news, a young girl going missing in her home town of Sidmouth in Devon. She hasn’t been home for 16 years and left when another girl had disappeared . She returns home to find out about the missing girl and see if there is any connections between the two girls.

The story is told from Felicity’s point of view and of her childhood friend Jasmine. Jasmine’s parents Frank and Lisa often go abroad to do charity work, they have offered their cabin in the garden to Tim a homeless man, but he unsettles Jasmine.

Loved how the stories merge together in a nail biting way that had me completely hooked!!

An author I couldn’t recommend enough!!

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

I really enjoyed the story, it gripped me from the start and kept me guessing throughout. Well structured plot with a twist.
Recommended to fans of mystery/ thrillers.