A story with lots of promise and intrigue and a varied host of characters in this house full of secrets.
A slow burner, but by the middle and towards the end it became more of a thriller, and less of a drama. I enjoyed it.

This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Omg wow this book is amazing it's full of twists and turns it will keep you up all night I really enjoyed this book

A brilliant tense read that had me hooked from the first page. A gripping storyline, gorgeous scenery and fascinating characters and a plot that ends with a bang!
Would highly recommend

Vicki has a secret crush on good friend Niall and she’s over the moon when he invites her to accompany him back to his childhood home in Ireland. But with all the family together in over twenty years since their mother’s death in a tragic accident, there is a certain tension in the air.
When I decided to pick up this book, I thought it would be a thriller of sorts. If you’re looking for that type of book it is definitely not that, in fact it turned out to be more of family secrets with a little bit of suspense
There were some deep and dark undercurrents between the siblings and it took a long time for that to come to a head. There were some instances where it was a little slow and then I almost felt the ending was quite rushed but it did tie up all the loose ends.
This ended up being quite an enjoyable story but not what I was expecting.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy to read.

I loved this book, the way the story unfolded, the plot was unveiled in a brilliant way, with strong characters. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Zoe Miller for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

It was the beautiful cover that drew me to this book, and I had the idea it was going to be a psychological suspense - which it isn't! There is a big old house and a very dysfunctional family (who could use a lot of therapy), and it's one of those stories where everyone has a secret. And I enjoyed it a lot.

A House Full of Secrets is mostly told from two points of view: Jenna, who is married to Alex, the eldest son of the glamorous Blake family, and Vikki, who is friends with the troubled youngest brother, Niall, but is hoping for a lot more, especially after he invites her to spend the weekend with his family. Twenty years ago Alex, Niall, and their sister Lainey were poised on the brink of glittering careers when their mother died and their world shattered. Alex ran away to New York, where he met Jenna, and Niall headed to London. Only Lainey stayed in Ireland. Alex and Niall have not spoken to each other since that summer but now they have been summoned back to the family home, Lynes Glen, and the tension is mounting by the minute.

I loved the characters, even the bossy Lainey, but I especially loved Jenna, who cannot understand why her husband Alex is so on edge and why the family never talk about the mother they obviously loved so much. I also loved Vikki, who had some horrific secrets in her own past, and the way she was trying so hard to fit in with the upper-class Blakes. And I always enjoy stories about big old houses that have a mystery at their heart!

Most of the story is set in the present day but there are some chapters set in the 1960s, showing how the siblings' parents met, right up to the 1990s when their mother died. I would have preferred it if there had been more of these set at regular intervals throughout the story, because there came a point towards the end of the book where the segments clustered together, detailing each character's take on exactly what had happened the day their mother died. But the negative for me was the villain, who became a bit pantomine-y towards the end, and I'm afraid I skipped the big confrontational scene.

Despite this, I really enjoyed A House Full of Secrets and I would definitely recommend it to fans of authors such as Lulu Taylor, Eve Chase (Black Rabbit Hall), and Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca).


Thank you to Zoe Miller, Hachette Books Ireland, and Netgalley for my copy of this book, which I received in exchange for an honest review.

Excellent book with a brilliant storyline and great main characters. I would recommend this book.

Secrets and the failure to confront and address them appears to be a prevailing theme of the Irish writer Zoe Millers work and this enthralling mystery is no different. We have a Agatha Christie setting taking place on an isolated estate on the west coast of Ireland where no communication is possible with the outside world and a storm is forecast. Here members of the Blake family including the estranged brothers Niall and Alex are reunited after a twenty year absence following the tragic death of their glamorous and much missed mother. A weekend of activities has been arranged by the controlling sister Lainey to reconcile family relations but the past intrudes on this thin veneer of family togetherness as strange and unexplained events start occurring.

Seen from the perspective of several of the characters and going back also to the past, the tension builds up layer by layer as the reader tries to work out what actually happened on the fateful day of the mother's accident and who in the present is behind and orchestrating the sinister incidents that begin to occur. I enjoyed this book very much both in regard to the plotting and the characters involved. It is certainly something of a page turner as we reach the dramatic finale. The reader is always given just enough of an idea of what is going on but not the full picture. Although by a series of deductions I came to the correct suspect about half way through the book it was not until near the end that I understood why.

I certainly enjoyed this immensely and if you like the proverbial country house murder mystery then this should. be for you.