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The Book Club

'I raced through it' Harriet Tyce

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The Book Club

By: C. J. Cooper
Narrated by: Mary Woodvine
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About this listen

 EVERYONE IS HIDING A SECRET. ONE OF THEM IS MURDER.

'I raced through it - edgy, tense'
Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

'I for one am terrified of the woman next door!'
Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger

'Tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping'
Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They Grown

'Dark, twisty, claustrophobic'
Jo Spain, author of The Confession
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The book club was her idea, of course.

It was her way into our group. A chance to get close.

I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted.

And I was right.

Alice didn't come to the village for peace and quiet.

She came for revenge.
_______________

A deliciously addictive psychological thriller about a book club that unravels dark and scandalous secrets between one circle of neighbours. The perfect page-turner for fans of Big Little Lies and The Rumour.

What readers are saying about The Book Club:

'Wow. What a page turner'

'Couldn't put it down!!!'

'Truly a five-star debut'

'Absolutely addictive'

'Seriously page-turning, totally gripping'

'A thrilling read, found it hard to put down once I'd started. Loved the ending'

'Brilliant, a proper page turner'

'Dark and creepy'

'Loved it!'

'Gripping to the last page'

'Fast paced and will make your blood run cold!'

'Had me on the edge of my seat'©2019 C. J. Cooper Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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Critic reviews

I loved this book - tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping and likely to make you want to avoid book groups for the foreseeable future!
I raced through it - edgy, tense and wry with great foreshadowing. No one has ever asked me to join a book club - now I think it's for the best!
A dark, twisty, claustrophobic read. I love those locked room novels (albeit locked village in this case!) . . . A thrilling psychological debut
Intensely twisty
Just finished The Book Club and I for one am terrified of the woman next door!
Intricately plotted, this gripping thriller is written with great style and has a host of wonderful characters to be loved and hated in equal measure
Smart, sassy . . . Midsomer Murders meets Desperate Housewives. Immensely entertaining, the growing sense of menace - of 'where have I seen you before?' - grips and chills in equal measures. An excellent confident debut!
An irresistible slow descent into darkness, with twist upon twist upon twist. C.J. Cooper's page-turner debut kept on surprising me right to the end. Brava!
A fabulous, page-turning read! Beautifully written and I loved the humour . . . Highly recommended!
Intuitive and addictive - a great debut
All stars
Most relevant
slow to start but then had me gripped all the way through. Leaves you wanting to know what happened next - so many questions.

Gripping

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Started strong and I enjoyed that it was from different character perspectives however fell majorly flat towards the end and a disappointing (and dare I say, predictable) ending.

Poor ending

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I nearly gave up on this book but as it was our Book Club book I persevered. Glad I did. I wish each chapter was intrigued with a chapter heading stating who's perspective it was as it switched between characters.

Slow start but intriguing story

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Trying to work out who Alice was ,was on wrong track to start. Enthralling story well worked out

Build up of suspicion about Alice

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I liked the premise, reviews and narration were good but it all fell a bit flat for me very quickly and I gave up.

I think I guessed the motive for the attempted murder very quickly, but then it was made very obvious, so unless there was an amazing twist that I did not hang on for, it just seemed a bit dull and unbelievable.

I also did not care for the story being told also from the perspective of the incomer to the village or her backstory of having some sort of psychological problem that meant she found it very hard to mix with people and they found her "creepy" and she knew this, as it just made me feel sorry for her.

No spoilers, but I am presuming she was the stalker and would be murderer and I just felt sorry for her as she was written with no social skills as if perhaps she was on the spectrum as opposed to being a manipulative, scheming mastermind bent on revenge.

Perhaps I did not listen to enough of the book, or read too much into it, but it began to feel uncomfortable for me as opposed to thrilling, intriguing and ultimately entertaining.

Life is too short to listen to an audiobook which is making you feel a bit queasy, so returning and hoping the next one will be more my cup of tea.

A bit too cosy a mystery for me

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