I love Alice Feeney books so it's no surprise that also really enjoyed Good Bad Girl. There were a multiple characters and jumps in time that were a little hard to follow along as an audiobook, so I ended up taking notes to keep everything straight. Everything comes together by the end and it was a satisfactory conclusion to all of the groundwork Feeney laid.

4 stars
Many thanks to @macmillanaudio for the ALC of Good Bad Girl. All opinions are my own.

Could not - would not - stop listening. I kept guessing & was WRONG at every turn ... which, I absolutely LOVED. Alice Feeney is climbing my "fav authors list" at a quick pace. In the beginning, it was hard to hear, because of the circumstances, but after that moment (which was necessary for the story) the story flowed quickly. I had my audiobook playing as often as I could, carried it everywhere with me & listened. My husband would even attempt to guess the next turn of events - even off the little information he was hearing. We have already been recommending this book to our friends & family.

I love how Alice Feeney always keeps me on my toes - as soon as you think you know what is going on, she cackles and turns everything on its head haha! This plot is more complex than her previous books so be sure to pay attention to who is who. Once you have that figured out though this book will fly by. I listened to the audiobook and admittedly making heads or tails of the characters and how they were linked took a big to navigate but the narration was great and it is worth the read/listen. There are multiple POVs and admittedly, I cared about certain ones more than others. But once everything started converging, it didn't matter whose POV it was, I was hooked. The twists got me in this one, I didn't expect that ending!

CW: Kidnapping, murder, death of a parent, grief.

Thanks to MacMillan audio and NetGalley for the ALC. All opinions are my own.

First of all, the book was incredibly confusing with so many female characters and little to differentiate them. I found it so hard in the beginning to keep track of which characters belonged together because they all had a similar vibe. The book does take an interesting look at mother/daughter relationships, though.
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Secondly, there were no thrills in this thriller. I could easily predict where this was going.
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Finally, I was just bored through most of this. I know Alice Feeney is beloved by many so as usual take my opinion with a grain of salt.

A slow-burn mystery that starts off a bit disjointed, making it hard to fully connect with the story at first. However, the narration is well done and helps keep the listener engaged. While it’s not my favorite Alice Feeney book, the signature twist is still satisfying, even if the buildup feels a little uneven. Overall, a decent listen but not as gripping as some of her other works.

This was a really good read. Just when you think you know what's going to happen, everything changes. "The world is full of people, who are good at being bad."

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.

Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl is a compelling psychological thriller that masterfully intertwines multiple narratives, keeping readers hooked from start to finish. Feeney skillfully develops her characters, making them feel real, complex, and often unpredictable. The alternating perspectives add depth to the story, and the twists are well-timed, delivering the right amount of shock without feeling forced.

The novel's pacing is well-balanced, with enough suspense to keep the pages turning. However, some of the plot points can feel slightly convoluted, which may require readers to pause and reassess the connections. Despite this, Feeney's writing style is engaging, and her ability to build tension is top-notch.

Overall, Good Bad Girl is a gripping read that fans of twisty thrillers will thoroughly enjoy. It earns a solid 4 stars for its intricate plot, strong character development, and the sheer entertainment value it provides.

Thank you Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for an ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney was quite the page turner! If you’re looking for a book with:
-plot twists
-edge of your seat suspense
-murder mystery
-deep mother- daughter bonds
Then this most definitely is the book for you. You’ll see first hand how easy it could be for a good person to do bad things for the right reason.

I highly recommend. 4 stars! Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for an audiobook in exchange for my honest review. The narration helped elevate this storyline as well as the built up suspense at the same time. I couldn’t stop listening.

I have never read Alice Feeney before but I would like to read more from the “Queen of Twists”. This kept me entertained throughout. I’m going to give this another listen so I can write a better review.

An incredible book with wonderful characters and a beautiful setting. It will keep you guessing until the end.

I tried to get through this audiobook multiple times. I didn't enjoy the narrator and I was confused with the story. I have enjoyed Alice Feeney in the past but this one just didn't engage me. Perhaps I'll try the physical book.

thank you for the opportunity to access this audiobook

*NetGalley review*

This is my second Alice Feeney audiobook and I continue to love them! Yes, there are a ton of characters to keep track of and remember their storyline, but Alice Feeney makes you feel like you are involved in solving the mystery. I actually feel like I'm in a game of Clue, except this one I guessed wrong! I needed to get lost in a book right now and I'm thankful this one did the trick for me. I will continue to seek out and read Alice Feeney books. She's made a fan of me! Thank you to NetGalley, Alice Feeney, and MacMillan Audio for giving me the opportunity to listen to this one in exchange for an honest review.

"A good book can be a light in the darkness. A good book can cure loneliness, change minds, or even change the world. A good book is nothing less than magic."

I am definitely an Alice Feeney fan, however, Good Bad Girl was a difficult one for me to get through. It took multiple readings for me to parse what had happened to whom, which took away from my enjoyment.

What a wild ride! The author keeps you guessing the entire book and intertwines the stories so well that you feel like your lost and end up on the other side with quite a story to tell.
There are moments of heartbreak and triumph through this story but it well mimics the different parts of humans and their mental health and difficult family relationships.

Fabulous! At my school, my students flock towards this author. They mostly read print books, but we have recently launched an audiobook option and I will press this title. A superior way to read this series!

I really enjoyed the audiobook version of Good Bad Girl. This was an excellent suspense/ thriller, and the narration was fabulous. I have come to really love author Alice Feeney and narrator Stephanie Racine. I always enjoy their work in combination. Good Bad Girl was a slow burn that kept my attention and kept me guessing until the very end. I would recommend it to any lover of mystery, thriller, and suspense books.

"Good Bad Girl" by Alice Feeney promises a gripping mystery woven with drama and unexpected twists. Two decades after a baby vanishes from a stroller, a murder at a care home reignites the cold case, suggesting a hidden link between the two crimes. Eighty-year-old Edith, determined to escape her nursing home, forms an unlikely alliance with Patience, a caregiver concealing her secrets. Meanwhile, Edith's daughter Clio grapples with her troubled past as ominous figures approach her door. As these women navigate distrust and deception, they become entangled in a web of mysteries involving three suspects, two murders, and one victim. Feeney's novel is poised to unravel the truth behind the missing baby, the grieving mother, and the intricate connections binding them all together.

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney is an intense roller coaster ride of a mystery. With twists and turns and more than a few red herrings laying about.

Summary -

"...I stare at the empty stroller, wondering if I left the baby at home. I was so tired yesterday I put my phone in the fridge by accident. Maybe I forgot to put the baby in the buggy before I left the house today? But then I remember the elderly woman on the street, she saw the baby. The friend who is now a stranger saw the baby too. I saw the baby, five minutes ago. Maybe ten. When did I last see her? The panic rises and I spin around, looking up and down the supermarket aisle. She's gone. The baby is too young to crawl. She didn't climb out by herself.
Someone has taken her..."

Twenty years before a baby is stolen from a stroller, now a woman lays murdered in a care home. Somehow the two events are connected. But what is the truth that links the two events?

Edith was tricked by her children into living in the nursing home. Now her own daughter Clio refuses to speak with her. Her son she never sees. But there is someone who cares for Edith. Someone who will help her. Everyone thinks because she is old that her mind is frail but the opposite is the truth. Edith is planning her escape and the young girl Patience is all the help she needs. But what Edith does not know is that Patience has so many secrets of her own.

"...I am working but I don't work here,' says he young woman, speaking in riddles and tucking the silly strand of pink hair behind her heavily pierced ears. She studies Clio in a way that Clio normally studies others and it is unnerving. Clio waits for her to say more but she doesn't. Sometimes the gaps between a person's words are more interesting than the words themselves.
'Sorry, I don't understand,' Clio says eventually.
'I'm a detective,' the woman replies, as though that should be a sufficient explanation.
Clio flushes with embarrassment and something else but soon recovers. 'Then you do know about my mother. She's the one who has gone missing. I presume that's why you're here?'
The detective shakes her head. 'I'm not here about a missing person. I'm here about a murder..."

Frankie did a bad thing twenty years ago but it was for all the good reasons. Now things have changed and she is not sure is what she did will ever be made right. Her own secrets have left her estranged from her daughter, but now the past is intruding on the future.

"...The food she orders arrives quickly, but her phone beeps inside her bag before she can take a bite, which means she doesn't see the police car drive past the window. Her phone hasn't made a sound for almost a year-unless it was an alarm she set herself-and the unexpected noise makes her jump. She checks the time on her Mickey Mouse watch, and presumes it must be work getting in touch to see why she hasn't turned up today. But it isn't someone from the prison. It's her daughter. Almost exactly a year since she ran away.
The text message is short, just three words.
HELP ME MUM..."

The past converging on the here and now, Frankie, Clio, Edith and Patience must find a way to join together before the secrets they keep; end up with another dead body.

Review -

Hot on the heels of one of my favorite books of 2023, Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney has delivered another murder/mystery that will tease and twist and challenge the reader to their utter delight in Good Bad Girl.

The key to this mystery is who is who. Early on you think you know just who the characters are but as the tale moves forward each person slowly evolves into someone completely different. Who is the victim and who is the savior. Who is the protagonist and who is hero. Feeney does a terrific job of juggling all these in the air as she drives the story forward at an frenetic pace.

What Feeney does so well is weave a web of mystery and subterfuge that the reader is challenged every chapter to rethink what is the actual plot of the novel. Her mysteries are not easily solvable and intriguing with each new morsel of plot that unravels.

Good Bad Girl is a terrific read!

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Good Bad Girl
By: Alice Feeney
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Pub Date: 8/29/23

Another spectacular thriller from Alice Feeney! This one begins at the end. A baby is kidnapped from a supermarket but it takes a while to workout who the baby was taken from. There’s a whole cast of characters. Frankie, a young mom who works hard to provide for her now adult daughter, Patience. She works in a prison library and thinks of herself as a good, bad girl.
Patience who has just turned 18 and has run away from her mom Frankie after she refuses to tell her who her father is. She works in a care home.
Edith is 80 and lives in the care home. She was once a supermarket detective but her children treat her terribly.
Clio is Edith’s daughter. She’s a therapist who just plain and simply doesn’t like people and is obsessed with shoes.
Patience meets Edith on her first day working in the home. When she finds her crying in her chair she takes all of her savings to go save her dog from the pound. They become fast friends. When Edith, who just wants to go home, comes up with a plan to escape she gets Patience to help her but a murder has taken place. The director of the care home is dead in the elevator and there is about to be trouble.
When DCI Charlotte Chapman arrives for the murder she also discovers there’s a missing resident. She has 3 suspects, Frankie, Clio and Patience. But who’s guilty?

“A captivating thriller that delves into the complexities of female friendship.”

In “Good Bad Girl,” Alice Feeney returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.

Edith, an eighty-year-young resident of the nursing home, plans her escape. Patience, a caregiver, bonds with Edith but is lying about almost everything. Edith’s daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her, and someone new with ominous intentions is about to knock on Clio’s door.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, “Good Bad Girl” keeps you guessing, and the twists come fast and furious.

If you enjoy psychological suspense with unexpected turns, this book is worth a read