Thanks to Random House UK, Transworld Publishers and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this novel for review.

I really enjoy a psychological thriller so was very keen to read this book.

Within a couple of years, the main character, Tessa, has lost her job, separated from her husband, become estranged from her eldest daughter and to top it off her youngest daughter is attacked coming home from a party. She also has ailing, elderly parents to support. Understandably, she finds this all difficult to deal with and as a result, takes the law into her own hands.
After her daughter's attack, the witness becomes close to Tessa and her daughter and is initially a good support for them. However, she becomes too close for comfort.
The story is mainly told from Tessa's point of view, but there is another mystery narrator who is eventually revealed.

Generally, I didn't like Tessa as a character, I found her irritating and a bit flighty, jumping to conclusions and being very impulsive then afterwards realising what she had done was maybe a bad idea. The other characters were well done and I didn't find them so annoying.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. It was easy to follow the story and engaging enough that you wanted to find out what was going on. I felt some parts were dragged out a bit so it could have been a bit more fast paced. A good holiday read.

I would happily read more by this author.

This was a new author for me and I wasn’t disappoint, to start with the storyline was steady and held my interest to keep reading and I’m glad I did. I was able to feel for Tess, a Mum wanting to protect her daughters but at the same time having her approach and methods questioned. I won’t give any spoilers but I did start to have inclinations about some of the characters and where it would lead but nothing is confirmed till the last few chapters. This was a great read in my opinion and certainly made me question and open my eyes to the manipulation human beings can have on each other. A good book that had twists and turns I wasn’t expecting and some I was, Tammy tells the story so that it keeps you reading and wanting to find out the truth.

I did enjoy this book but I felt so many parts of it dragged on and it didn’t keep my attention. Good book but not up to the usual standard I expect from this author

I enjoyed the idea of this book however I felt that the story was dragged out in places and took longer than necessary. I had guessed the ending early on in the book and felt that there were a few bits in the book that were just fillers and weren't really relevant to the story.

Not bad overall but wouldn't necessarily recommend to anyone.

Review posted on Goodreads

A mother's job is to keep her children safe.

Tess is a single parent to teenage daughters Rosie and Emma, she's done things in her past that she's not proud of and is trying to make amends, then 16 year old Emma is attacked on her way home from a party but the perpetrator walks free. When Tess thinks she has seen the person responsible, in the street close to where they live, she is determined to get justice for her daughter, but at what cost to her family and her own sanity?

This story is told from Tessa's perspective, although there are short sections in between chapters that could be another person, it doesn't become apparent who this person is until later in the book and these give a somewhat creepy element to it all. This is a tale of obsession and intrigue which kept me gripped throughout, it didn't blow me away hence only the four stars, but it was a book I couldn't put down and read in a matter of hours. The plot of this story is based on a real life event and will resonate with any parent, because we only ever want to be able to keep our children safe. I've loved all of this author's books that I've read so far and would definitely recommend this one.

I'd like to thank Random House UK Transworld Publishers & Netgalley for the approval, I will post my review on Goodreads now and Amazon on publication day.

Thank you to Netgalley for the loan of this book by Tammy Cohen (Stop at Nothing)
The book kicks off well with the main characters daughter being attacked, and the fallout of such, and I identified with the mothers angst thereafter, but felt her actions were a little extreme, (although I suppose you cannot know how you’d react if the same were to happen to your daughter)
The women who came to the daughters rescue becomes fixated on the family, and that where the real story starts....
Overall it was easy to read but I found it predictable, having guessed early in the book who was the “villain”. Not sure I’d read another of her books, I like something a bit more twisty fuelled with adrenaline that I cannot out down. Sadly, this book didn’t have that, so although it wasn’t bad, it was too predictable to give it more than 3 stars.

Stop at Nothing by Tammy Cohen.
What a fantastic book! Drama, family life, hurt betrayal and guilt! I loved getting to know Tessa and her girls and, be honest, who wouldn’t appreciate a Frances in their life. Disturbing, frustrating and twisty. A great read- but bang went my day as I couldn’t put it down until I’d finished

This story opens with the attack on a young teenager, Emma, by an unknown man and the impact on her already unstable mother. Tessa, previously a confident and successful career woman with a husband, two children and beautiful home was already feeling seriously diminished by energy sapping events. Dependant parents, redundancy, the ongoing symptoms of the menopause and the final humiliation of her husbands affair resulted in a tenuous hold on a crumbling lifestyle . An ill conceived decision had caused a family rift with her oldest daughter ; this threat to her youngest child was the final straw. A driver luckily passing by had witnessed events, come to the rescue, and believed herself to be intrinsic in discovering the identity of the perpetrator In the mothers search for justice and revenge. Unhinged by events compounded by guilt at allowing her daughter to travel home alone on the night of the attack results in an escalating series of bad decisions and inability to perceive the long term results of her actions. Escalation in a series of unexplained events heighten the mystery. A missing dog, a dead member of her family and a sudden apparent lack of support from lifelong friends compounded by little if no interest or involvement from the law, leave Tessa fearing for her sanity, the safety of her children and uncertainty on who she can trust or rely on . We the reader can only hope for a satisfying conclusion even though events tend to suggest our protagonist may lack the strength and ingenuity to save her family from this terrifying threat.

This is the first Tammy Cohen book I have read so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought the first third of the book was quite slow going but I persevered and I’m glad I did as the rest of the book made up for it. It was nice to read a thriller where there were no deaths and blood/gore. I thought I had guessed the ending but I was wrong as there’s a twist at the end. Overall I really enjoyed this book and will look to read more by this author.

I really like this author so was really pleased to be sent this advanced copy. Thank you to tolhe publisher.

The story centres around a mother of two daughters called Tess. Tess isn’t in the best of positions with her husband recently leaving her for another woman, she has hit 50, made redundant from her highly successful job and has a strained relationship with her eldest teenage daughter who has moved out. We find out more about this relationship as the book progresses.

Things really kick off in the book when Tess is woken one night with a stranger at her door named Frances who by chance was passing as her youngest daughter got off a bus and was attack by a man, Frances stopped to help.

As the story goes on, Frances is ever present and Tessa is hell bent on getting revenge on her daughters attacker who she believes she sees in the street after a police line up she attended with her daughter.

From here on in with the revenge on her mind the story does get really dark and touches on some current social issues such as the impact of social media and technology. I would say I was gripped half from around half way through the book and couldn’t put it down. The characters (although some frustrating) are realistic and well thought through.

If you are after a gripping read with some surprises along the way, this is the book for you!

First of all, the formatting of this book in the version that I received was terrible. At times there were
single words on lines
few words on lines
and a word starting half way through the line and then finishing on the next line

I couldn't flip between chapters on my Kindle and the next chapter started on the same page as the last
I feel that this had a negative impact on my enjoyment of the book.

Overall, I really enjoyed the story. I found the initial first chapter very gripping and I instantly wanted to know more. After this I found that the book was a bit slow for the first 20-25 percent after this. I thought that I had the plotline of this book sussed however I was wrong and I am pleased that I was wrong as I thought that the last 30-40 % of the book really made it and I was hooked, desperate to know if I had been right. I liked the characters of this book and I felt that the book was very well written.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK for the opportunity to read this book before its release.

I love this author’s books and many of my reading friends have recommended it - but I found it too difficult to read. The dark sinister overtones made me really uncomfortable and the relationship with the mother, the victim/daughter and the witness/“friend” just too unsettling. Perhaps that’s the skill of the author, but with a child on the cusp of teenagedom, I couldn’t read on.

Has the makings of a great book, but just not for me!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK for an electronic copy of this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
I have to give Tammy Cohen a lot of credit for some of the things I feel she did very well with this book. The strained family relationships, although caused by a more extreme circumstance than a lot of other parent/teenager relationships, was explored very well and demonstrated perfectly. Extremely realistic. Tessa, looking through some of the other review comments she was not a popular character, which I wholeheartedly agree with, I found her incredibly frustrating. She apologies for anything any chance she can, claims to be the cause of all problems, and a fair amount of the time is! However she is meant to cause this frustration in the reader and for that I applaud the writing here. My score for this novel was difficult to decide on, I teetered between giving it one extra star for the above reasons as well as the occasional interjections of the secondary, anonymous narrator which I enjoyed and kept me guessing. In the end I have gone with 3 stars, a good score for a good book, only missing out on 4 due to me finding a little too much repetition in the narrative, I don’t need to be told things over and over, and there were occasional passages where I found the tone changed too drastically into humour, which sort of interrupted the flow for me.

I was looking forward to reading this book after reading the synopsis it sounded perfect. unfortunately I did find it fairly slow going but continued on and I am glad I did as the story picked up. It did take me longer to read than normal I found it to be one of those books that you put down and pick up at intervals.

Tessa is a woman with a lot going on in her life, her husband had left her for another woman 2 years earlier, she was going through the menopause, her eldest daughter isn't talking to her and is living with the father that reveal comes later in the book, she had been made redundant from her job at a magazine publishing business having worked long hours that has now gone. So she now freelances. Most of her friends have dropped her after she had had a total meltdown in public which under all these circumstances is easy to understand why. She has a webcam set up in her parents house as her mum has Alzheimers/dementia and her dad is getting old and is his wife's main carer. She checks the webcam frequently to check they are both ok and that its not too much for her father.

However, the story begins when her younger daughter Emma is attacked when walking home one evening by some man, she is punched in the head and he is trying to drag her off. Until a driver passing by rescues her this is when we are introduced to Frances. Both Emma and Frances are invited to go to the police station to do a video lineup. Tess is watching her daughters face to see if there are any signs that she recognises the person responsible. She is convinced her daughter had picked the person number 8 who she later finds out his name is Stephen. But Emma says afterwards she couldn't be sure and when Frances comes out she also says she wasn't sure but she thought it was leaning towards number 8. Tessa wants to see the man punished for what he has done to her daughter. But her initial concern is her daughter who is struggling with the aftermath of the attack. A few days later Emma sees the same man coming out of a building near the tube station Tessa was with her and saw her reaction to him and took his picture on her phone. From then on she becomes obsessed with getting this man even if it could put herself and her family in danger. Frances has managed to involve herself in Tessa's life almost taking over she turns up at many places Tessa does and feeds her information about the guy who Tessa believes was the attacker. Frances has also become very friendly with Emma which initially Tessa understands but then begins to resent a little. But is Frances as good as she seems? Is there more to her story?

As the story progresses the pressure mounts up and strange things start happening. There is someone else in the story which I found confusing as I couldn't work out who it was or where it fit you just knew when it was that person as the writing went to italics. All is revealed later in the story.

I was a little bit disappointed with the way the book finished. As it seemed to be a little open ended it could possibly lead to another book or you could just be left to wonder. But that is probably just me I like things tied up neatly at the end.

This is a very well written story showing how far a mother is prepared to go for her children and I think most mothers would feel the same. Not sure whether I would rather rely on the police route though instead of going after someone who could or could not be the perpetrator. But that could be something you never know unless you are in that situation.

I would recommend this book if you like psychological thrillers if you find it a little slow stick with it as the pace goes a little faster later. Obviously this is just my opinion many people like a slower paced book.

Thank you #Netgalley #Transworld Digital for letting me read and review an ARC This review is my own unbiased honest opinion

How does a mother react when her daughter is attacked and saved by a woman passing by.
Frances helped Emma and her mom, Tessa is so very grateful. But this is just the beginning of this book and all it’s twists and turns.
Will Emma get over the attack? Will they find the man who attacked her? Will Frances become a real family friend, or is there more to her than seems at first sight?
Read and find out.

This read hooked me from the start and didn’t let go until I could finally draw breath at the end. It’s a well-written page-turner that pulled me off in one direction only to thrust me along a totally different path, complete with a mysterious unknown commentator and loads of misdirection.
When her daughter, Emma, is attacked, Tess becomes convinced her assailant got off scot free and is living in the neighbourhood. On top of that, Emma now seems to confide in her rescuer, the kind and gentle Frances, rather than her mother. Tess starts to come unhinged. She’s already alienated her husband and her older daughter, Rosie, refuses to talk to her.
I was torn between enormous empathy for her and total horror at her seemingly deranged behavior. Tess will stop at nothing to protect her daughter, but the way she goes about it had me shaking my head in disbelief. She’s totally out of control. I wanted to tie her down before she did something even more irrational. On the other hand, I could sympathise absolutely. I admired her for wanting to take control, but not the way she went about it.
Stop at Nothing is tension-filled, clever, twisty and ultimately horrendous. Although you may well predict some of the twists, you’ll never guess exactly how the story unfolds.

Tess' daughter Emma is attacked coming back from a party but fortunately a passer-by, Frances, intervenes. However when both Emma and Frances fail to identify the attacker in an identity parade, Tess becomes obsessed with a man she believes to be the perpetrator, gradually drawing herself and her family into danger.

Tess is I'm afraid,, a most unsympathetic character. She consistently makes poor choices which are so bad as to be laughable. I have read several of Tammy Cohen's previous books and really liked them so I was especially disappointed in this one. I found it to be quite a tedious read and struggled to finish it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC.

I’ve been fortunate to have read some of Tammy Cohens other books! This one didn’t disappoint. It had so many twists and turns and left me going from one character to the next in search of answers! The ending left me shocked and again another twist that was unexpected. A thoroughly enjoyable book, that kept me on my toes, had me guessing right up to the very end.

Tammy Cohen is one of my favourite thriller authors and I was looking forward to reading her latest. Having finished, I must be honest and say it is not my favourite of her books, but it is one of her most personal – her reasons for writing it are at the end of the novel – and it is certainly very emotive.

Tess is asleep when a stranger brings back her daughter, Emma, sixteen, who was attacked after getting off a bus and walking home. Soon, she has a crying daughter, an unknown woman, Frances, who brought Emma home, and the police in her house. Before long, Tess is feeling powerless, and judged. Recently divorced, her career in women’s magazines damaged by the internet, and with her other daughter, Rosie, not currently living with them, she is vulnerable and horrified by what happened.

What follows is Tess’s attempts to make sense of what happened and to protect her daughter. This leads to her making some very, very bad decisions, which cause a bad situation to get much worse. I do not wish to give away the plot, so I will just say that it is full of twists and turns. Although you question Tess’s behaviour, as a mother, I completely understood her desire to protect her daughter, in the way she thought best and had a lot of sympathy with her and the situation she found herself in.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, for review.

I would like to thank Tammy Cohen, Random House UK and Netgalley for the ARC in return for giving an honest review.

I would have liked to have given 5 stars as I was gripped and read my copy in 2 days, but Tessa as a character was very annoying throughout and for a character who had worked as a magazine editor you would have thought that she would have had a grip on things.

The story opens with Em, Tessas daughter being attacked on her way home after getting off the bus late in the evening. Em is bought home by a woman who saw Em being attacked and rescued her.

After a failed ID parade by Em whilst Tessa was watching and then learning that Frances also failed to pick the correct man, everything starts to snowball for Tessa. She is convinced that the attacker was in the line up and starts a one woman crusade to make his life a misery after spotting “him” whilst she is in a cafe.

You learn that Tessa has a failed marriage and also that she became fixated on her husbands now partner Joy and her other daughter Rosie is now living with her dad after a car accident involving Tessa and Rosie’s friends whilst she had been drinking, now making her tee-total.

Early on in the book I had guessed who may be behind everything that is going on with Tessa and her life, but I was still engrossed in the story with its twists and turns.

The only part that I found not believable was when Tessa finds her dad dead via her video cam and the situation that lead to it .... maybe a bit too far fetched.

Overall a good and quick read