T.M. Payne has done it again with her latest DI Sheridan Holler novel, Play With Fire…it was totally fiery and so twisty-turny that I am still getting my bearing back to normal.

Payne has the unique ability to craft unique characters that are rounded, despite being minor players in the plot.

This time, DI Holler was tasked to find a missing person for a seemingly distraught husband, after she went missing and he found what seem to be letters to her lovers.

Then, the truly bizarre things begin to take place, and it’s DI Holler who is able to keep a cool and deductive head about herself, despite chaos reigning down on everyone.

The ending was a total shock to me, as I am sure that it will be for everyone who picks up this amazing mystery.

Thank you to NetGalley and Brilliance Publishing for this brilliant audio ARC!!

Play with Fire is a detective Sheridan Holler mystery/thriller written by T.M. Payne. I was ecstatic to be given access to the advanced copy of the audiobook narrated by Heather Bleasdale and immediately hunkered down to get started. As you can guess this story follows Detective Holler in her investigations. We accompany her down the twisted path of a pretty standard missing persons investigation where all signs point to the woman leaving of her own volition and a seemingly unrelated issue of a burned and severed hand being delivered to someone’s door. There is a lot happening in this story and the way it is written, a lot of the story is revealed without giving you much in the way of who is doing what and the real reason behind everything. Once it drew me in, I was absolutely and utterly hooked. I devoured this within a couple days. Payne knows how to write a thriller and while I had theories, I most definitely had no idea which way was up for the majority of the story. But I had a fantastic time on the journey.

I’ll be the first to say that a narrator can make or break an audiobook. I have been guilty of not finishing books because a specific voice just pulls me right out of the story. This was not one of those time. Bleasdale is a fabulous narrator who did just enough to keep me invested without distracting from the words and the story itself.

This was actually my first Sheridan Holler book and I have immediately found and obtained the other two. If you like mysteries with good twists that keep you guessing Until the very end, give this a read or a listen. Just trust me (but maybe don’t trust anyone in the book).

Thank you to Brilliance publishing for making this audiobook available for review via Netgalley. All opinions are my own.