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Het leest supervlot en de afwisseling tussen het heden en het verleden vond ik echt goed in elkaar steken (vooral het verleden vond ik heel erg interessant). Why does the councils decision to give the go-ahead for a nature trail on a track behind Alex and his wife Beth‘s home turn his limbs to dust and horror fill his heart? this was my first Candlish and i had pretty high expectations bc she’s one of the most popular UK thriller authors. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.
As for those around him, Louise Candlish is adept at creating believable and three dimensional characters who could easily have been people from your own life. Rick meets a woman named Mariana and falls head ber heels for her and would do anything to protect her. The council town has approved a nature trail project that crosses his backyard and that's when his quiet life starts to be not so quiet.THE ONLY SUSPECT, THE HEIGHTS, THE OTHER PASSENGER, THE SWIMMING POOL and THE DAY YOU SAVED MY LIFE have all been optioned for the screen - I'll share development news as soon as I can. Louise Candlish entered my reading sphere back in 2018, when I read one of her most popular novels, Our House. PS: I never give trigger warnings, but you may get a laugh out of this one: I think I have a phobia of house guests that overstay their welcome, because there was a part in the book where I felt myself becoming very anxious, with sweating palms and a racing heart, and perhaps discovering some slightly murderous tendencies within my own heart towards one particular character. I can't wait for you to read it and and tell me if you're Team Ellen or not ;-) The book is in development for a TV series, so watch this space. Alex never actively mingles with the neighbours, he steers clear of social media and, although not a loner, he does keep to himself.
Told over 2 timelines with 2 different POV’s the present follows Alex and the 1990’s where we are introduced to Rick. Louise Candlish's "The Only Suspect" received stellar reviews from my trusted GR reviewers and friends. Candlish adopts an engrossing past to present style narrative in The Only Suspect that had me hooked. Tightly plotted and brilliantly written with twists so perfect they made me gasp out loud on more than one occasion. There was also a sense of nostalgia attached to this mid 1990s timeframe, as I remember being a teenager in the UK at this time.The only downside was that the ink smudges too much and some was transferring to my hands/ fingers, which is why I knocked off half a star. While it did ratchet up the suspense in the sense that I REALLY wanted to get to the point and find out how if my predictions were correct (spoiler: they were) but I was waaaayyyy too tempted to skip ahead vs. One such activity is the proposed development of a walking trail on a disused piece of track behind the estate where they live.
Every single book of hers that I have read has left me gasping out loud, and The Only Suspect was no different. This new Louise Candlish novel follows Alex, a man who seems to live a happy and settled life with his wife Beth.and for me personally the story itself just wasn’t interesting or twisty enough to warrant such a long drawn out book. Alex is surprised when his wife Beth tells him about the nature trail that is going to be built near their house. Alex is gelukkig getrouwd met Beth en ze wonen in een mooie wijk, vlakbij een gebied met een heleboel bosjes. Candlish explores how well we really know those we love and what lengths we'll go to get what we want. Een geheim waar hij al heel lang voor op de vlucht is en dat het einde van zijn zorgvuldig opgebouwde leven kan betekenen.
In classic Candlish style, she pulls readers into the backstory and reveals just what we need to believe the story at THAT moment, then she plants a seed of doubt, a single word or phrasing, that has readers questioning everything they've read up to that point. Oh, and lets invite a homeless colleague in to our home, who happens to be pregnant, without discussing it first. Told in alternating timelines from 1995 to the present, we meet Rick, a young single man, who falls head over heels with the mysterious Mirena. The more we learn of the present, the more the tension ramps up in the scenes set in the past, the two threads feeding off each other and making it a story I couldn’t help but race through.Even though he and Beth have only lived in Silver Vale for ten years, he knows a lot more than he’s letting on about the murder that happened twenty-five years earlier, and he’s worried what might be unearthed if someone starts digging.
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