I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Such a great story with so many twists and turns. I was at the last couple chapters and I thought the book was over and was shocked to find more surprises in the ending of the story. This would make a great book for a book club discussion. there are so many different aspects to discuss

I really enjoyed this mystery! I loved the secretive, cozy setting surrounding a family disappearance a decade prior. The story kept me engaged and wanting to read on. I felt the modern day family was as equally interesting as the family who vanished from the very same house long ago. What I thought was going to be a predictable ending turned out to be quite surprising. I cannot think of any plot holes or untidy end points! I recommend this book and give it 4/5 stars!

“Ivy Cottage loomed into view…it was a place tainted by murder, nestled in a village of the damned.”

The Harper family disappearance has been an unsolved mystery that Naomi has obsessed over during her career as a crime journalist. Newly married to a man eager to please his bride, Naomi convinces him to purchase a cottage home in the sleepy village of Nighbrook. But what Naomi fails to reveal is they will be moving into Ivy Cottage—the very home the Harper’s disappeared from 10 years ago.

As Naomi begins questioning the villagers, she quickly learns they are close lipped about the events from that night, and they immediately let her know she and her family are unwelcome. What began as a plan to solve a cold case, escalates to uncovering long-kept secrets…deadly secrets…

Will Naomi and her family survive the darkness that surrounds the village? Or will the truth set them all free?

While reading THE VILLAGE, I quickly saw the villain and thought the outcome would be predictable, but oh how I was wrong! Applauding the author for the little twist at the end! Thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to fans of this genre!



**I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book that I received via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own. **

Caroline Mitchell knows how to keep my attention going with an exiting book.

This story is about the Harper family who disappeared from the face of the earth ten years ago. Their home gives no sign to what could have happened. It always remained a mystery where they could have ended up.
Enters Naomi, a crime journalist. She is keen on solving the Harper-mystery and seems to carry this to excess. Only problem: the locals are not to happy with Naomi snooping around.

I really enjoyed all the characters and the suspencion building up throughout the story.

Thanks #Netgalley #Amazon Publishing UK for this gripping ARC

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing me with an eARC Uncorrected Proof of The Village.

I was drawn into the idea of ‘The Village’, a small town with a ten-year-old secret that revolves around a family of three disappearing without a trace. As an adult who grew up in a small town with the typical everyone knows everyone and their business stereotype, I could relate with the townspeople when the community got together to discuss the new family moving into the Ivy House. The curiosity of who these new people could be, though there really wasn’t a whole lot to search for people on the internet. But, for the villagers of Nighbrook, their safety is above all. Even with the small hint that the area of England they are located in is silently questioned for running out newcomers as soon as they move in. For the townspeople, their secret is more important than their reputation. In a sense.

I was a bit disappointed about how the plot was covered throughout. There was too much jumping between the three primary characters and the point of view of what had happened ten years prior to the events of the book. I was excited to see Naomi piece together the puzzle with the evidence she had put together and see it through to the very end. Especially since she was a cold case writer and, in my mind, could have easily cracked the case without having to worry about her significant other being away or having to form any sense of relationship with her step-daughter. But, alas, Naomi had more struggle with those of the village and her step-daughter. This took away to the mystery of the Harper family away and more towards the relationships that were either too rushed or non-existent.
Because this edition was unedited, I would probably pick it up when the final edition is published.

When crime journalist Naomi sees that the cottage that the Harper family disappeared from ten years ago is up for sale she jumps at the chance to buy it. She has been obsessed with the mystery and thinks living in the house will get her the answers she craves.
She moves into the house with her new husband and his teenage daughter.
Not everyone is happy about her moving there and she has her work cut out to settle into the village and make friends.
A story full of mystery, secrets and lies that was hard to put down.
Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you so much to Amazon Publishing UK for allowing me to read this ARC in exchange for a review.

Ten years ago, the Harper family mysteriously disappeared from their home in Nighbrook, with the television still on, the water running, and the locks engaged from the inside.

Crime reporter Naomi has always been obsessed with the case, so when the home goes on the market, she jumps at the chance to move her family there. But the town is not the welcoming place she was hoping for, and no one wants to answer her questions. As it becomes clear they've all got something to hide, Naomi worried just what danger she has put her family in.

The premise of this book, as well as the Scottish setting, drew me in. Unfortunately I was a bit underwhelmed. I was hoping for a little more suspense, but as the book wanders from POV to POV in both the past and present, it became tedious, and took me longer to read than usual. It just never really held my attention.

Naomi encourages her husband to buy Ivy Cottage, a dilapidated home in a sleepy little village without telling him, or her stepdaughter, why she wants to live there. Ten years earlier, the Harper Family vanished. The kitchen sink was still running, the television was still playing cartoons, and no trace of the three family members was ever found. Naomi is journalist with a passion for true crime and hopes that with unlimited access to the house she'll be able to solve the mystery. It quickly becomes obvious that Naomi is not welcome in the village. The villagers are actually holding meetings to discuss the new residents and how to deal with them. Her own stepdaughter is determined to sabotage her whenever possible and isn't the slightest bit subtle about it.

Chapters set before the family's disappearance gave me an idea what was going on, although I didn't guess all of the twists. I'm not sure what Naomi expected to find in a house that had been occupied by various sets of renters over the previous decades, in a town that was so hostile to outsiders. But it was an entertaining read and not a bad way to spend a couple of evenings.

Caroline Mitchell is one of those writers whose books are either a hit or a big miss for me and I am happy to report that this one was a hit. I love books with investigative journalism and if I didn't have a job dealing with books I'd have loved to do something along the lines of a newspaper reporter. I really liked that there were not one but two surprising twists at the end of this story, surprising being the operative word. This was such a creepy story too, perfect for fall evenings leading up to Halloween. I would have given this one 4.5 or even 5 stars but I did find some part were repetitive. all in all an excellent story about the obsession of criminal journalism.

Thanks to net galley and the publishers for this arc.

I absolutely loved this book with its eerie story and murder cover up, I read the book late into the night as I had to find out how it ended.

I will be looking out for more books by Caroline Mitchell in the future

This book has so many twists in it!! Right off the bat it was giving me vibes of the movie The Village, (although this was wayyy better). I loved the growth between Naomi and Morgan. This is the perfect creepy book for a rainy day. Very well written!!!

This book was a page turner from beginning to end. Things are not always what they seem. Things are not what they seem and will have you guessing until the end. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Amazing, this is a well written story with fantastic characters. Once I started reading I didn't want to stop.

I always find Caroline Mitchell very readable... it feels like the pages almost turn by themselves.
This book was no exception.
I found a lot of it fairly unbelievable,but it didn't detract from the story.
A few twists and turns to keep you hooked.
Good read. .

Thankyou to NetGalley, Amazon Publishing UK and the author, Caroline Mitchell, for the opportunity to read an advanced readers copy of The Village in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
I loved this book. Very hard to put down once started.
The atmosphere, the characters and the storyline keep you hooked.
Well worth a read.

The sleepy village of Nightbrook attracted the attention of the media for all the wrong reasons. Ten years ago, the Harper family, Mum, Dad and their terminally ill daughter Grace, appeared to vanish from the face of the earth. In reality, that is very unlikely, and crime journalist Naomi intends to find out the truth. So when the Harper’s home, Ivy Cottage, comes on the market, she persuades her husband Ed to buy it, though he doesn’t know about its mysterious past. Naomi’s stepdaughter Morgan will be joining them, and that in itself is a nightmare, because she hates Naomi.

Nightbrook couldn’t be more different from the bright lights of London, Naomi’s previous home, and if that were the only problem, that wouldn’t be so bad, but the people of Nightbrook don’t like answering questions about the Harpers, and are unwelcoming to the point of being hostile. Although she senses danger, that won’t stop Naomi, because she’s certain they’re all hiding something!

I do love a good mystery, and this didn’t disappoint. It certainly kept me guessing, and the end came with not one twist, but two!

Yet another fantastic book from Caroline Mitchell. Highly recommended.

I really enjoy her Amy Winter books, and was intrigued to try one of her other works. I was not disappointed, and will certainly be reading any of her books that I have miss.

I have read a few other books by Caroline Mitchell and thoroughly enjoyed them. For me, this book did not live up to the others that she has written. The description of this novel is amazing and I could not wait to get stuck in. It took me a while to get into the book and found it hard going.

The main story is a few years a go where mysteriously the Harper family disappeared. Naomi is slightly obsessed with the how and the why?! She is recently married and has new step daughter - their relationship is not the best. They move to the actual house of the Harper disappearance, only Naomi that this is the place of the ghostly disappearance Naomi being a journalist has an usual need to find out what happened to the Harpers and sets about her investigation, which as expected does not exactly go the way Naomi wants it to.

The Village is a good read if you like a mystery/thriller with different twists and turns along the way..

Thanks to NetGalley, Caroline Mitchell and the publishers for an arc of this novel in exchange for my review.

“This is a tragic story of lies, love and deceit.”
These are the words Naomi uses to begin her true crime story on the strange happenings in the village of Nighbrook. A crime story that nearly killed her.

Ten years earlier, the Harper family disappeared from Ivy Cottage. Martin, Susan and Grace vanished leaving unfinished tasks and their dog behind. They were never seen again and their bodies were never found. Determined to solve the case, Naomi and her husband Ed, a wealthy film producer, have purchased Ivy Cottage and plan to renovate it. They’ll live there with Ed’s daughter Morgan. There are two immediate problems: neither Ed nor Morgan know the history of the cottage and Morgan hates her stepmother. Things quickly go wrong. The villagers are less than welcoming. They, led by police chief Lloyd and his wife Joanne, want Naomi and her family to leave. How far will they go? And what did happen to the Harpers?

The Village is a quick, creepy read full of twists and turns. You can easily guess the identity of the villain but the ending? Totally shocking! 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Amazon Publishing UK and Caroline Mitchell for this ARC.

I REALLY do not like to give negative reviews, but this book was just a bit too far out there. The amount of "bad guys" was just too ridiculous. Not only do we have the villager bad guys, but we also have bad guys in the main characters' personal lives and then they all intertwine? On top of that, Naomi? Seriously? How on earth could you be so obsessed with the original crime? Also, there was an error about 65% of the way through the book that completely gave the ending away. :(