Hmmm, this one definitely kept me engaged in the novel! The main character was quite a complex character and I wasn’t sure her qualities were consistent throughout but I sort of wanted to root for her.

I guessed the ending but I don’t think most people would? Actually maybe they would but the motive…. Man you make it break it on the motive after the big reveal and I felt like it was a little break on the motive for this one 😩

The ending did at least make sense though so it had that going for it even if I wasn’t convinced. Solid 3 ⭐️ execution and will recommend to others.

I struggled to finish this book and I am usually a very fast reader. I found the writing style difficult and the pace very slow moving. The idea of a group of people being murdered who are linked by a school photograph is excellent. Even the idea of one of them being an investigator on the case held promise but, in the end, the promise largely failed to deliver. Readers who persist while find that things get better towards the end, but I suspect many will give up before reaching that point.

A decent mystery but I found the characters difficult to really engage with and that made some aspects of the story drag a little. The writing style was different and I think that is a good thing. It’s nice to read things which are presented in innovative ways.

*4 Stars*

Copy kindly received via NetGalley for an honest review.

This was a good read with good characters. The ending surprised me.

This book was everything I wanted it to be. It had me turned pages without even realizing. It was so good!

This was a pretty good thriller. The story has been done but I was kept guessing as to who was the culprit. Some great red herrings.

I really, really enjoyed reading this book! It had me glued to the edge of my seat. It started off a bit slow, but once it picked up it was awesome.

Thank you NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for allowing me to read this advanced digital copy of Any One of Us.

In Any One of Us, Ruby is working as a profiler and gets a call from home that her classmates are being murdered one by one. Unfortunately, the story sounded really interesting but it was just not the book for me. I had a hard time getting into the writing. The chapters were long and dragged on. There seemed to be a lot of filler that did not help progress the story forward.

I don't typically like mysteries from the perspective of the detective trying to solve the case. However, Any One Of Us was alright. The beginning was really good and hooked me in, but there were definitely some long chapters that didn't need to be that long and detailed. The ending chapters come at you pretty fast, which is not something you'd expect when the build up took that long to get to, but those final chapters are pretty good. Just when you think you guessed what was happening, you realize you've missed the mark, which I always enjoy. Overall, it was a long read, but a decent one — especially if you like following a detective as she tries to find the killer.

I started this book with great hope because we'll title and cover was very interesting. I was expecting twists and turns that will put me in edge but literally nothing came upto 40 percentage of book and i dnfed it after that.
I couldn't take it anymore. It was written in such a slow place and narration was scattered.
I was hoping so much more from the book but sadly couldn't get any.

At the beginning, it was really hard to get into the book, the whole story seemed kind of vague, and I confess I didn't understand Ruby's motivation to go help, one second she was completely detached of her past and estranged from her friend, and then suddenly her friend's death makes her leave everything to join the investigation.
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My problem, also, was Ruby herself, she sounded so robotic, which after completing the whole book was explained because of her taking drugs and being kind of shamed for showing emotions and weaknesses, after the first third, she actually grown on me, I kind of sympathized with her.
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The story was really engrossing, I had my guess about who could've done it before the reveal, but that didn't take anything from my enjoyment of the book.
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*thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this bool in exchange of an honest review*

I really enjoyed reading this book. The main character was well drawn and the ancillary characters were interesting as well. The psychology of reunions was described beautifully. Lots of twists and turns, and as you approached the end, the suspense drew you right in. Highly recommended.

An enjoyable read that is well written with a well developed cast of characters and a storyline that kept me engaged the whole way through with the right amount of tension and pacing.

I received an advance copy of this book from netgalley and am leaving this book voluntarily.

I liked the concept of this book and felt it did not disappoint. While working in Australia Ruby, a criminal profiler, receives news from an old friend that two of her school year have been murdered. When Elizabeth then stops responding to texts Ruby discovers to her horror that her friend has become victim number three. Ruby reluctantly returns to her home town to investigate.

The book has a lot of strong characters who are well written and relatable. It deals with a lot of issues such as bullying, guilt and grief.

There are a lot of twists and turns in the book and I genuinely did not see the final twist coming, I thought it was really cleverly written and actually although dark very realistic.

Very much enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading more from the author

Thank you to NetGalley for the arc. This review is wholly my own.

I should have paid attention to the other reviews mentioning that this book is DNF worthy. They were not wrong. Man, this was a sleeper and wish I had not wasted time reading it.

The cover reminded me of Every Last Fear and The One, but it was nowhere close to similar.

Writing style was hard to get into. The chapters are SUPER long, which I despise. Not a fan of the 2 page chapters either, but chapters that are 20+ pages long are just a bit much and make me lose interest really quickly.

Ruby was not a likeable character nor were most of the others so it was hard to get invested in them.

The twists & turns were unoriginal. Not one I would recommend.

I really enjoyed this one.

While I’m not often a fan of books where people from high school are suddenly being killed (I guess I just left high school behind so completely myself), this one was actually compelling. I really liked our main character and was definitely intrigued by our mystery.

I’m happy to say that the author kept me guessing. All of my ‘obvious’ solutions were completely wrong, yet the actual reason and ‘who’ behind everything wasn’t a cheat.

My first book by the author, but I’ll happily read them in the future!

• ARC via Net Galley

This book was a strange one for me, and also the closest I have ever been to DNFing a book. It took me an absolute age to read, and I think that's because I just didn't really get on with the writing style. The sentences are quite choppy, and there was lots of filler writing that I just skimmed over. secondly, the chapters are really long, so I just wasn't engaged throughout the book. The pace definitely picks up in the last quarter of the book, but it was a struggle to make it to that.

I wanted to read this as it gave me 'one of us is lying' vibes, but adults and British! The premise of the book is interesting but doesn't quote love up to the potential. I did guess who the Killer was pretty much as soon as their character was in the book, and this did mean any suspense was lost for me. that isn't to say it wasn't a good twist, but it was quite predictable for me. Also if you didn't guess who it was, then I think the reveal comes as almost too much of a shock - I didn't really pick up on too many hints throughout the book, and it felt really sudden when we do get to the reveal. I did enjoy the story, and could definitely see this working as a good TV adaptation.

Ruby was a really difficult main character for me to like. I'm a bit tired of the main female character with a secret drug addiction storyline, and there was so much more that could have been explored in that. It just felt like her addiction was only there as an excuse for her memory loss. Another disappointing character was Frank. I actually really loved his storyline but was disappointed we didn't find out more about him and his past. Maybe this was intentional, but I felt like this open-endedness to his character was quite disappointing.

Overall if you're into BBC/ITV crime shows I do think you'd enjoy this, but I think the writing style is definitely personal preference, and for me, it just didn't work for a murder mystery book.

I enjoyed this twisty murder mystery suspense. Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this advance copy.

In the first few pages I was hooked. The murder of a former school friend in Ruby’s hometown in the UK brings this perfectionist “behavioral investigative advisor” AKA criminal profiler on a journey into her past from her home in Australia.

It turns out there is a serial killer on the loose in Missbrook Bay. As the mystery unfolds more people die and it seems Ruby is certainly in danger. Everything seems to be related to a high school incident.

There’s a strange relationship with two of the classmates that’s not fully explainable, but it serves to provide a murder suspect and moved the story forward. Ruby’s addiction to a stimulant medication, which she gets illegally, is a bit of a misalignment with her hyper-perfectionist personality, and is explained as keeping her “sharp.” In a convenient plot action the medication may be contributing to Ruby’s forgetfulness. She also ultimately seems to be a very poor profiler.

I found the final killer reveal engaging, but the killer’s motivations, once revealed, annoyed me. I didn’t think the final act was in alignment with the killer’s behavior throughout the story. That said, I was interested through to the end and it kept me reading.

Ruby is a profiler in Australia and she receives a text from her best friend from school letting her know two of her classmates were murdered.
Soon her best friend stops responding to texts so Ruby finds herself returning to the UK to work out what is happening.

This book took some effort getting into but in the end it was a good read with a possibly unreliable, definitely erratic narrator.

Actual rating: 3.5

Have you ever found yourself reminiscing about the past, wondering where your old classmates are up to, what your old school looks like now, and just about that 'good ol' time'? Me too! But have you ever been pretty much forced back down memory lane when you get the news that there has been a series of murders in your old town and that the victims were your classmates? That's exactly what happens to Ruby.

Working as the equivalent of a criminal profiler, Ruby goes back to her hometown to investigate the murders and find the culprit. And soon. Because it seems that whoever is committing those crimes might have a vendetta against people in her class, and she might be next.

I quite liked this read. It was fast-paced and gives only snippets of information about the case, just enough to only really allow you to guess who the murderer is about halfway through the book, keeping you on your toes.

My biggest complaint would be that for someone working in the police force, she does talk about evidence and theories with just about anybody, including suspects, quite a bit. Then she wonders how the murderer was one step ahead of her. Come on now...