Leah lives on a quiet street with her husband Cain and their life is picture perfect. But when 18-year-old Charlotte knocks on their door saying she’s looking for her biological parents the walls start to crumble and long-held secrets threaten to finally be unearthed…

OMG. This one hell of rollercoaster ride! Tense, twisty and thrilling, I stayed up reading this one late into the night and read it in under a day. Carla Kovach is an autobuy author for me and I know whenever I read one of her books she’s delivering a riveting thriller that I’ll love. And while I’m a big fan of her Gina Harte series, I do look forward to her standalones so I couldn’t wait to dive into this one.

Fast paced, cleverly written and cunningly plotted, this has secrets, lies, suspicion and loss. All the relationships are dysfunctional, creating one big cluster of toxicity and mistrust. I couldn’t even be sure about Leah, vacillating between believing what she was saying and thinking she was hiding something more. It is a complex and intricately woven maze of trouble that didn’t go in the directions I thought it would AT ALL. The twists and turns kept coming, deviating into completely unexpected directions again and again until I finally stopped trying to figure things out and decided to just enjoy the ride.

So if you love thrillers that make you feel lots of emotion, keep you on your toes and surprise you, then this is a must read.

**Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an opportunity to review an ARC of this ebook**

3.5 stars rounded up!

I'm a huge sucker for domestic thrillers, stressed and wary wife, husband who is possibly full of secrets that are yet to be uncovered. I ate this up.

The main character annoyed me a lot, I can't stand the naïve wife who is always making excuses for the terrible husband. I suppose she was meant to get under our skin, but she was dumb.

This book got off to a slow start for me, but even so I wasn't able to put it down. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, and really unsure of how this story would continue. It is fast paced and easy to read. About half way through, one thing happened and I had to finished it in one sitting. It was intriguing and so much was happening at once that I just needed to know what was going to happen next. For fans of Tarryn Fisher, I think this is a great next read!

Lee doesn’t trust her husband came due to past dalliances , so when a girl shows up claiming Lee’s house is where her biological parents live she immediately thinks it must be Cain‘s daughter when the girl explains to Lee that her mom Jean told her everything Lee is shocked. She believes her mom even at the time of her death wanted to ruin her life from beyond the grave and this is the reason this girl is there but because she knows things and she has items that prove what she saying Lee decides to meet her at a local restaurant. When Lee arrives she asked the girl to take a DNA test which the girl agrees to. Soon however Lee is getting threatening texts telling her to stop looking in to the girls story. It doesn’t help that she has to go clean out her moms house because being there only brings up bad memories that she would rather not think about. Nor does it help when she finds A lone daffodil left on the bed in her childhood room. She immediately leaves knowing she has a stalker and with the threatening notes and texts it all just becomes too much but doesn’t stop her from wanting to find out the truth but will she live to learn what really is going on? I really did like this book more than I disliked it I especially liked how she told her best friend Zara everything I also really liked Lee and the teenage girl and was totally rooting for them but I didn’t like how weak Lee was when it came to Kane. I do however know how it is when you want to be wrong about something you know deep down inside you’re absolutely right about. This is a solid read and although they do have a few I Rowling moments it’s still entertaining and quite thrilling. I want to thank Bookoucher and Net Galley for my free Ark copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

Everyone is lying here. No one is what they seem to be. Everything gets weird extra fast and then it gets extra weird. Twisty, fast-paced, chilling read that begins as a somewhat slow burn and then picks up the speed and gets addictive.

While I am a fan of the author’s Gina Harte Series, this is a stand alone and a good way to jump into reading something by her.

There were lies, secrets, misdirections and omissions galore. I didn’t connect or like the characters, but was interested in finding out what was up. Was Charlotte Leah’s daughter? What was up with Leah’s husband and the couple he was trying to woo? And her Mom? And her friend? There was so very much going on. I did for a minute get a little confused with the characters in the middle, but I think that is intentional in keeping me guessing who was in on which part of the story. There was hinting or foreshadowing of where some of the characters belonged.

The complex plot is staged in a unique way. First I read the story from Leah’s POV, we then also from Charlotte’s POV. It really filled in some of the details of their complicated relationship and history that second time around and wasn’t repetitive. I did have moment where I wanted to yell at both of them in their poor decisions, but I find I do that a lot in my reading lately.

And that last twist I had no inkling whatsoever. Kudos!

If you’re a fan of domestic thrillers full of family secrets and twists, you should pick this one up.

In this standalone thriller by Carla Kovach, Leah and Cain have a strained relationship. Leah is positive that Cain is cheating on her. He'd done it before. More than that, Leah has a huge void in her heart whenever she thinks of the baby that she lost.

Leah recently lost her mother, and was left everything her mother had. This leaves Leah with mixed feelings because she had a difficult relationship with her mother, one that left her with mental scars.

A trio of three girls, it becomes clear that they have a very specific purpose in mind. One of them, Charlotte, apparently is looking for her biological parents as she recently learned that she was adopted, and is certain that Leah is her birth mother. However, keep reading the story. This is where the twists really begin in this book.

While the story had a bit of a slow start, it gained traction as the story went on. I loved the drama that this story told, albeit the sad moments in this story. Then the conclusion. Done in a fabulous manner and my eyes were glued to my Kindle.

Many thanks to Bookouture and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Bookouture for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

On a Quiet Street was such a good book once I got into. the beginning was very slow but once it picked up there was no turning back. Every emotion was hit as well as murder, cheating, (Trigger warnings also, slight mention) lies and secrets.

Although the book started slow I definitely want to check out more books by Carla Kovach because I enjoyed the majority of this book so much.

You'll read this book in one day! Well, one day if your day ends at 1:30 a.m. because you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!

This was such a complex mystery, of identity, he said, she said, cheating husband, lying husbands, wives, and mothers! There was a stalker, threatening texts, and break-ins.

Kovach takes us on a whirlwind quest to find out who Charlotte is, if Leah is her mother, and if Leah did what her mother said she did. There was a little repetition in the retelling from different points of view, but that by no means took away from the horrible truths that are unveiled.

A solid 5 stars. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an advance reader's copy!

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookouture, and Carla Kovach for an advance copy of On A Quiet Street in exchange for an honest review. First off, HAPPY PUB WEEK to this gem of a book!! I am new to Carla Kovach and Im wondering where this author has been my whole life? I found myself instantly sucked into this one and I couldnt put it down until I knew what the heck was going on. The characters were so fun to read about and I loved seeing how everything worked out for them all in the end. I definitely wasnt expecting the ending and thats always a great thing for me! If youre looking for a thriller that will keep your heart pounding and you on the edge of your seat, look no further then this one! This one is out now! 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 for Goodreads.

Here is my review for On A Quiet Street by Carla Kovach

I got into this book straight away and enjoyed reading it immensely as it was a psychological thriller. I read this book in two sittings as it was an easy book to read and set in an easy reading style. The plot was a good one and one I hadn’t come across before. The writing style is good and the prose is excellent with everything being explained concisely and clearly with a brilliant eye for detail. A young girl visits a house where she thinks her mother lives, what she doesn’t realise is the nest of lies she is releasing after all these years. A brilliant read that shows how much research has been done by the author to make the book seem more realistic to the reader.

Blurb :

Every family has its secrets. Some are more deadly than others…

I live on a quiet tree-lined street with my perfect husband Cain. But when 18-year-old Charlotte knocks on the front door, what she says has me questioning just how well I really know my husband.

‘I was adopted as a baby and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was told they live here.’

My heart races as I fear Cain has been keeping a huge secret from me. Does he have a child he never told me about? And has he been lying all these years?

I can’t trust anything Cain says. Desperate for answers, I agree to meet Charlotte in secret. But it’s Charlotte who is full of questions: about our lives, our relationship. It’s only when she lets slip the name of the road I used to live on, that I realise how much she knows about me, too…

Cold fear floods through my body. My husband may not have told the truth, but his lies are nothing compared to mine. If Charlotte knows my darkest secret, my whole life could fall apart. How far will I have to go to keep the truth hidden?

Interesting thriller. Long lost secrets and mystery will keep you on edge. I liked Leah, Zara and Angel and hated Cain from the start. Told through Leah's and Angel's point of view, it's a mysterious and suspenseful read. The ending is perfect. Good cozy mystery. Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC.

On A Quiet Street is the seventh book of Kovach's I've read. It's a brilliantly twisty domestic drama that held my attention from beginning to end.

It's moderately paced for most of the first half and speeds up on the second as we head towards revelations and the truth.

Secrets, lies and deceit are hot on the menu along with a bunch of deceitful characters, making the book a truly compelling read.

This book was full of suspense, there were parts in the book that I enjoyed more others, this is my first book I've read by this author so I wasn't sure what to expect I will definitely be reading more.

I really enjoyed this page turner! The perfect mix of lies, betrayal and suspense! The characters were fun and I was 💯 invested. Carla did an amazing job of weaving a wicked tale of deceit in this suburban drama. I can't wait to read more by this author! The ending was perfect and it hit me like a freight train!

Thanks to #NetGalley and #Bookouture for the book #OnAQuietStreet by #CarlaKovach. This is an interesting book about a woman pulled in many different directions and stressors. Who can she trust? Her world is falling apart.

This is a book by a new author to me and I enjoyed her writing style. It is a book written in several parts from different POVs. Even though the start was a bit slow it took a faster pace during the ending that kept me interested until the end.. I liked that the story had enough twists and turns and a nicely tied ending
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for access to this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I haven’t read this author before so I was keen to try her. I enjoyed Part 2 of the book a lot more than Part 1, as I found Part 1 a bit repetitive and Leah a little frustrating, but overall it was an enjoyable read with so many twists that it kept me interested. I have heard Carla’s Detective Gina Harte series is good so I’m going to get stuck into those. Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for letting me read and review this book.

On A Quiet Street by Carla Kovach was a solid read although it was slow in parts. It kept my interest and I was invested in finding out the truth. What would you do if a young woman showed up on your doorstep claiming to be the biological daughter of your husband? First of all, I think I’d lose my mind and second, I’d probably faint or throw up.

There is a lot of lying and untruths packed into this book with a few twists. A good book for a rainy afternoon!

The plot:

I live on a quiet tree-lined street with my perfect husband Cain. But when 18-year-old Charlotte knocks on the front door, what she says has me questioning just how well I really know my husband.

‘I was adopted as a baby and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was told they live here.’

My heart races as I fear Cain has been keeping a huge secret from me. Does he have a child he never told me about? And has he been lying all these years?

I can’t trust anything Cain says. Desperate for answers, I agree to meet Charlotte in secret. But it’s Charlotte who is full of questions: about our lives, our relationship. It’s only when she lets slip the name of the road I used to live on, that I realize how much she knows about me, too…

Cold fear floods through my body. My husband may not have told the truth, but his lies are nothing compared to mine. If Charlotte knows my darkest secret, my whole life could fall apart. How far will I have to go to keep the truth hidden?

Out now!

What will a mother do to rescue her child?
The twist and turns in On a Quiet Street take us on a rollercoaster ride leading us to the craziest answers. The mother- daughter relationships in the novel are fraught with pain, tension, and mystery leading to an explosive conclusion. This is a suspense thriller unlike anything else I've ever read. At one point, I thought I would have to take notes to keep up!