I Will Make You Pay is an amazingly fast paced thriller that I just couldn't put down: flying through the pages one minute and then covering parts with my hands so that my eyes didn't see before I'd read it all word by word!

Alice Henderson’s world is suddenly torn apart  when she receives a threatening call at work one Wednesday.

Reporter Alice then begins receiving packages, threatening messages and worse, every Wednesday, causing her to obtain the help of private investigator, Matthew. She becomes truly terrified as things escalate each passing week, everyone seems to be a suspect. Her secret past ends up becoming exposed and police begin to suspect a link.

I love that the story is told from multiple perspectives through different timelines, it made you feel almost like you were Alice as you read, dreading what might come next. 
What is the significance of Wednesday?

I was very drawn to the chapters taken from the stalker’s perspective because I was intrigued to find out why he was targeting Alice in particular. I love thrillers that keep me guessing, and this one didn't let me down! I originally thought I knew what was going on but I was very quickly thrown off the trail only to have it come back and bite me at the end...brilliant!
The author (Teresa Driscoll) also managed to make me actually care about more than one of the characters in the story and the way she wrote about the relationship between Alice and her mother was simply beautiful.  

Fantastic read! 

Thank you so much to NetGalley, the publisher  and Teresa Driscoll for my ARC in return for an honest review.

You can tell that Teresa Driscoll is a journalist, since her style is so direct and easy. Her lead character Alice is herself a journalist, who is suddenly being stalked. The problem is not what the creep does, but how fear starts invading her life, imbuing everything. She has a good support system and, more importantly, her boyfriend and sister have means, so she can hire a private detective. Recurring character Matthew Hill is there for Alice, as well as super-cop Melanie Sanders. It’s nice to see how their lives have evolved, but the rest of the characters are also well rounded. The disintegration of Alice’s psyche and self-esteem are interesting enough, but the mystery behind the stalking is a doozy. I had no idea what was going to happen and all of my theories were wrong. I’ve loved all of Ms. Driscoll’s mysteries and this one does not disappoint. Thank you, NetGalley/Amazon Publishing UK!

I will make you pay is fast paced and you won't want to put it down.
Alice has a stalker but who? Certainly wasn't who I thought it was.

Journalist Alice is having a perfectly ordinary Wednesday at work until she gets the phone call. A robotic voice simply states: "I will use cheese wire on you". Shaken but certain that she has simply been the unlucky recipient of a hoax call, she goes about her business. But soon it becomes clear that Alice is being deliberately targeted by someone with a deadly grudge - someone who will stop at nothing to terrorise, harass, and possibly even kill her. 

I found this thriller very engaging, and thought that the depiction of Alice's anguish as her stalker ratchets up the violence was well done. The book is saturated with her fear and dread as she begins to wonder who she can trust. The stalker's back story was also well-crafted, to the extent that at times I almost empathised with him! That said, I did find elements of the novel predictable and found myself frustrated with Alice, as she made unintelligent decision after unintelligent decision, unnecessarily placing herself in harm's way purely to further the plot. All in all, a quick, enjoyable, but somewhat lacking read.

This book was good, solid, writing was beautiful. IT was fast paced and enjoyable. My first book by this author, and I will definitely read her again.

100% a Teresa Driscoll fan! I loved I am Watching You and The Friend. I Will Make You Pay did not disappoint! I could not put down the book, I had to finish it to see the outcome. Who is it that is messing with Alice every Wednesday! While I was reading, it was a Tuesday and I got scared just because I thought something was going to happen on Wednesday. I really enjoyed the way this book was written and how I felt like I was with Alice dealing with everything that was happening to her.

I Will Make You Pay is one of those incredibly fast-paced thrillers that makes you want to race breathlessly to the end. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, with its multiple strands and hidden layers. In the author's note at the end, Driscoll mentions how she wanted to tell this story with a side to counter the negative. This came through wonderfully with the relationship between Alice and her mum. 

It was good to see Matthew and Melanie make another appearance - their scenes always offer an additional insight into the case and the ways in which the police (and private investigators, of course) both view and deal with them.

Oh no its Wednesday!  I loved this book - could not wait to get to the end to find out the villian!  I am normally good at weeding out the baddie but in this case I really was stumped.  The author successfully draws the reader into the life of journalist Alice the main character and weaves the tale around her life also taking the reader back in time to an unknown boy's life whom we assume is connected to or is the stalker. Some books I've read go thorugh a "boring" stage but this did not.  For fans of a good psychological thriller and page turner look no further!

Beautifully written and suspenseful, this tense thriller vividly draws on the author's experiences with a very satisfying result. Equal parts police procedural, thriller, and psychological why-done-it, this haunting novel will please fans of Val McDermid. Highly recommended.

Every Wednesday, like clockwork, the horror returns but why? And what will be the next terror?
Fabulous story line, kept me guessing the whole way through.  Would definitely recommend.

This book had all the twists and turns that I hope for in a good thriller! Journalist Alice gets threatening messages and gifts every Wednesday from a mysterious stalker. Who is determined to make her pay. The author kept building up the suspense and kept me eagerly anticipating who the stalker was and what his/ hers motive was. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy in exchange for review.

4.5/5

After reading I Am Watching You, I was excited to delve into Teresa Driscoll’s next story. She is one of the few authors who writes psychological thrillers that do not rely on jump scares and excessive twists. She terrifies readers precisely because she does not require us to suspend our disbelief- the plausibility of these stories happening in the real world makes them infinitely more terrifying than the majority of books in this genre. Driscoll also develops her characters as individuals and by their relationships with each other, giving her books depth and merit outside of the central mystery. I read this book in one day and it wasn’t until I closed it that I realized I had been filled with a quiet yet persistent feeling of dread from the very first page. The plot was original and managed to misdirect and surprise me without overdramatic reveals. An excellent novel.

And here I was, feeling awfully smug, thinking that I've got all figured out way before the end of the book.
Guess what? I got it all wrong! I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the ending left me with my mouth hanging open. Minus one star because the protagonist Alice didn't fully come to life for me and remained kind of unapproachable. 
Thanks to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for this eBook!

I did not enjoy this book. About 100 pages in, I’m giving up. The plot seemed so interesting yet nothing has really happened yet. And the chapters go back and forth between characters that I forget who is who so I lost interest. 

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy. Just wasn’t my cup of tea.

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5 stars from me

I have read a few books by this author now and think this may be her best yet. The thought of being stalked in this was is absolutely terrifying, and it was a very believable fear from the main character Alice. Great to see the appearance of Matthew and Melanie from the previous books, and I really loved how the story built. Really kept me guessing.

What can one say other than you never know what you have till it's gone~!
Sometimes things aren't as they appear and Alice may just be one of those cases.
Sure it appears she's a target of a madman but what if it's all in appearances?
Perhaps her past is cloudy at best and there's more to this entire story than meets the eye.
Perhaps hiring a private eye is helpful but in this case we alternate between two story lines the present and the past with equal pressure to solve it.
In the past we have a young man living with his gran and she truly is upset she must leave him to tend to her other job tending to patients in a care home.
What's left to say other than there's plenty of twists and turns here.
Get this one ASAP!!

When Alice a journalist recieves a sinister note threatening her life her husband hires a private investigator to track down the culprit, secrets start to immerge surrounding Alice, secrets she has kept from her husband... are these the reason for the threats or an article she has written that has upset someone

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 omg mindblown! @tkdriscoll_author you did it again! I devoured this one. I could NOT figure it out and I think I was just as shocked as Alice was when she figured it out!! Every fan of reading a  psychological thriller should pick up a copy of i will make you pay on October 10. Thank you netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

My first time readung this author. The book kept my attention throughout. I wasn't expecting the twust at the end.

Well executed thriller - not hugely earthshattering but engrossing and fast-paced just the same with fleshed out and believable characters. Certainly kept my interest and laid several false trails which had me going for a while! I'd certainly recommend it as an entertaining read and I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. This was the first book by Teresa Driscoll that I've read and I'm looking forward to reading more by this author.