WOW I really enjoyed The Perfect Nurse an exciting fast paced psychological thriller by Daniel Hurst. Book 1 of 2 (kindle edition)

Darcy works as a Nurse in the private sector and is the perfect nurse always putting patients before herself but looks can be deceiving as time goes by.

Darcy works alongside Pippa when they are engaged by Scarlett's husband Adrian to take care of Scarlett who is suffering from amnesia at their affluent home where everybody in the neighbourhood can leave their curtains open and their doors unlocked.

Both Scarlett, Adrian and Darcy are all keeping secrets they do not want to share between each other.

An intruder has broken into Darcy's home and she becomes paranoid as she was sure she had locked up before she retired for bed and she infroms the Police who do not seem too concerned as there does not seem to be any forced entry and Darcy has a feeling that she is being followed as she goes for a walk.

There are a great many twists in this thriller and what an amazing ending.

This was the first book I’ve read by this author after a recommendation. I found the start a bit tedious and found Darcy quite annoying due to her less than committed ways to her job and responsibilities. However, after the enormous twist the pace sped up and although somewhat far fetched in places, it certainly delivered a unique storyline. Without giving anything away it is difficult to say too much but the twists are clever and absorbing and from then on becomes a real page turner. The build up is important for the shocks to have a full impact.

You cannot go wrong with Daniel Hurst he is the master of suspense and always has you hooked from page one.

The edge of your seat thriller and if you like a mystery and suspense then read this. You will not be disappointed. I love the twists and turns and every time i thought oh wow that was great another bang comes and you don't expect it.

I will forever read anything that Daniel Hurst writes.

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read and review.

WTG Daniel Hurst you have once again mastered another novel.

A book filled with twists you won’t see coming. I like this authors writing style because it draws you into the story. He also has twists I never would have thought of and they keep coming. A quick, satisfying read.

Thank you to NetGalley, Daniel Hurst and
Bookouture for an ARC of this novel. Overall, slightly disappointed. The storyline was rather predictable and somewhat all over the place at the same time. This wasn’t for me.

I found this to have a very slow start. Darcy was paranoid, impulsive, reckless and I had a hard time relating to her. She didn't really think much through. Her story kind of changes and I was tempted to feel a little more sympathetic but she was a little difficult to like.
The second half improved and had several twists that I really didn't see coming. It was much more thrilling and I started to enjoy the book a little more here.
I would have rated this three stars (slow first half, more exciting second half) except that after finishing the book there are some things that just don't make sense to me.
spoilers ahead


Why did her parents try to make themselves look suspicious? What was with the lock your door comments, and what do you think of my husband nonsense? I'm tempted to think that after talking to Pippa they wanted to give her something to make her feel she needed to come back, but if they were role playing to try to get closer to her and be a family again, making her not trust them seemed like the wrong way to go about it. ALSO the prologue just doesn't make sense. At the end of the book she remembers getting into her accident after fleeing the scene of the murder of Melissa after arguing with Laurence. Yet the prologue has her going home and burning her scrubs and ID card and anxiously awaiting the police to come after her. And it specifically states that the woman is dead and she didn't do anything to prevent it. The two events don't seem to fit together.

I wasn’t sure where this book was going to take me but I’m so glad I stuck with it as once you got to the second half, the pace increased and there were some great twists. It kept me entertained and the twists added to the plot. Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author for the chance to review.

I could not put this book down!
Darcy is a private nurse and is offered a new client. Her and her colleague, Pippa, go to care for a wealthy man's wife who had an accident which resulted in a head injury and memory loss but is all as it seems? Darcy is suspicious and starts investigating to see what she can discover.
I highly recommend the book.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC

Great book… I love a thriller where it keep me on my toes.. have me keep turning the pages. I love Darcy and Pippy relationship. It all makes sense why Pippy was so caring for Darcy.
The perfect nurse was a fun book to read.

I think Daniel Hurst is a new favorite author of mine. This is the second book of his I have read in the past 2 months. The Perfect Nurse has the perfect unreliable narrator. This fast paced book had me at the edge of my seat; the many twists had me guessing what would happen next. I like to consider myself an avid thriller reader, and even I was shocked by some of the twists.

Darcy has been assigned to be Scarlett’s nurse, but Darcy is having a hard time believing what happened to Scarlett was an accident. She thinks her husband Adrian might have had something to do with it. The kicker is that Darcy isn’t very reliable herself, so can we really believe what she thinks is going on?

I very much enjoyed this, and am excited to read the next book in the series! This was a great psychological thriller that I would recommend to my friends. Fast paced, short chapters, with some great twists.

Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture, and Daniel Hurst for the copy of The Perfect Nurse.

This story was my first read of one of Daniel’s books. The reading was easy flowing, but I did find myself somewhat confused as to where it was going. I will try another one of his books though.

This book was amazing. The amount of twists and turns left me unable to put this book down. I had to know where it went! I work in the health care field so I love reading book in that area, especially thrillers. I will be recommending this to anyone who asks and buying the physical copy when it comes out soon!

This is Daniel Hurst back in fighting mode! After a small dip in form with his last book The family trip, Daniel Hurst comes back with a vengeance.
The Perfect Nurse is fast paced (as always) with many cliff hanger chapters or chapter endings that left me saying "what?!" You just have to know what happened next and they just keep on coming. The other fun thing about this book is that it really got me. As an avid thriller reader I'd consider myself not too shabby at coming up with theories (some of which are right to my dismay as I love a good unexpectedly twist) but I did NOT see these ones coming. I had theories but it was no where near!
Plot:
Darcy is a home nurse. When she starts on a new patient Scarlett who suffers from brain damage after an accident, Darcy starts to suspect all is not what it seems. As she crosses the line and starts her own investigation into her new patient, this rollercoaster of a book will take you places you never saw coming.
A quick and addictive page turner. I'm do glad I have the sequel 'The nurse's lie' ready to read!

Many thanks to Bookouture who granted me a copy of the book through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

"My name is Darcy, I'm your nurse, and I'm here to help you." I repeat the words I've said so may times. Except this time, I don't mean it....

If you saw me walking down the street, you'd think I was pretty ordinary.... I wear a crisp, white nursing uniform, my hands are scrubbed clean, and you'd have no reason to believe I was anything but a good citizen. A good nurse. But looks can be deceiving. You shouldn't trust me - because I don't even know if I can trust myself. Now I stare at my reflection in the mirror - dark smudges under my eyes, and blood on my hands - listening for the sound of police sirens. Because the truth is, I had to do something terrible. I broke all the rules a nurse should follow. I wanted someone gone so badly. And now they're dead because of me. I'm looking over my shoulder everywhere I go, because I'm sure someone knows my secret. Then, when my home is broken into, I know the simple truth: this isn't over yet....

Darcy and Pippa are nurses. They are looking after a wealthy woman who had a nasty fall, and is now suffering from memory loss. The story starts off slowly but gains momentum throughout. I never read the premise to any of Daniel's books, I just get them and read them. With lots of twists, this gripping read hooked me in and did not let me go until I'd turned the last page. You do need to suspend reality a little, but that's not a bad thing. Darcy is a bit paranoid, she believes that someone is following her, and that someone enters her house at night. I did enjoy the second part of this story more.

Published st July 2024

I would like to thank #NetGalley #Bookouture and the author #DanielHurst for my ARC of #ThePerfectNurse in exchange for an honest review.

This latest book by Daniel Hurst is an interesting one, with a twist, of course.
Darcy is a nurse, with a severe case of memory loss, which resulted after a serious car accident. She has no memories of her past, other than a few random flashbacks.
Her reality now is her work as a home care giver, with her friend Pippa as her co worker. Helping an older woman with similar memory loss issues, Darcy becomes suspicious about this woman and her husband, and what she discovers is nothing we, the reader, ever expected.

This is an entertaining , quick book to read.
A second book in this series is soon to follow!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC, in return for my unbiased and honest opinion.
4 stars

"The Perfect Nurse" was an engrossing read, filled with unexpected twists and turns that held my attention from beginning to end. It also featured intriguing characters that were a pleasure to discover.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC.

Darcy is a nurse and she is working with a new couple to help with an ailing woman. Then people are breaking into her house and she is being followed. Why? What has she done?

This is my first Daniel Hurst book and I devoured it in one day. I am mind blown by the twist that I never saw coming. I can’t wait to read the next book!

Thank you to Daniel Hurst, Bookouture, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’d like to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Perfect Nurse’ written by Daniel Hurst in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Darcy Miller and Pippa Simpson are nurses caring for private patients in their own homes. They’re sent to the home of Scarlett Hoffman to help her husband Adrian look after her but from the moment Darcy walks through the door she gets the feeling that there’s something about the house and the people who live in that feels wrong.

I’m a great fan of Daniel Hurst and his thrillers so I’ve been looking forward to reading ‘The Perfect Nurse’. It starts as a straightforward psychological thriller and I was so gripped I read the first half really quickly, but then the plot gets convoluted with the characters’ actions so unbelievable that it took me a bit longer to take it in and understand what was happening. It’s still an enjoyable thriller that I got through in a day although I didn’t think it was quite as good as some of his previous thrillers. But despite this, I’m very much looking forward to reading his next one.

I've never been disappointed by Danuel hurst. I was however thrown by the burb a clever misdirection and changed my expectations of what i would be reading and made it irrelevant.
The story didn't really take off for me until the .middle with the omg curveball twist which blew my mind and explained why this was a part 1 if a series. Darrcy grew on me as the story went on. Pippa seemed a more complex character who I would love to see more of in the future. Some of the final reveal felt a little convenient that all if a sudden it came together. However this was realistic. I'm left anticipating rhe next one. Feeling sad it's over but want to see where this goes as the ending gives so many options. I wanted so much more. As always 5 star highly recommended but I would suggest the burb is revisited as its not what is says on the tin and alrhough misdirection works you have to read the whole book to get it.which is clever ut many disappoint readers expecting a mote killer based read.
Thank you netgallery and publisher and author for this cracking 5 star read.

The Perfect Nurse by Daniel Hurst is a book with MANY unexpected twists and turns that I wasn’t expecting. It’s about two home health nurses (Darcy and Pippa) who are assigned to take care of a patient. Once they get to the house Darcy starts to notice things are not all as they seem.

As a nurse I enjoyed reading some of the relatable thoughts and feelings of “am I good enough to be a nurse?” Or just having bad days and wondering if you’re cut out for nursing anymore or need to stop and find something else especially after working through Covid like Darcy did.

I had a couple tiffs with the book the writing seemed stiff. It just lacked that ease and fluidity that I want and expect from a really good book. I felt like at times the story line was repetitive and there were several missed opportunities for extra dramatic effects by stopping at a certiain point to start a new chapter to really make it a page turner. Also the description of the book doesn’t seem to match the plot of this story.

Otherwise, the story was fast paced and in general throughly interesting and I’m very grateful to Daniel Hurst, Bookoture, and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this advanced copy of The Perfect Nurse before it comes out July 1st, 2024 where books are sold and Kindle Unlimited.

Rating 3/5