Gabe is heading home , following an old car covered in stickers he sees his daughter in the back of the car . He arrives home to find the police there and finds out his wife Jenny and daughter Izzy have been murdered. His father in law ,Harry , identifies the bodies as Gabe becomes a suspect in their killing . He is cleared but cannot believe Izzy is dead . He gets an old campervan and patrols the motorways day and night trying to find the car he followed . He gives out fliers at motorway service stations and elsewhere with a picture of Izzy but has no response . He has sought the help of a man he calls the Samaritan who contacts him to say that he has located the car in a small lake . He is attacked in his motorhome and threatened . This is when he finds out a "payback" group called "The Other People" who operate on the Dark Web to bring justice to victims of crimes , however when you use them they use you to do jobs on their behalf with no backing out. A girl called Alice is on the run with an older woman called Fran , who is protecting her , but from what ? A well thought out story with a paranormal undercurrent which comes to a head in the final chapters.

There was something so deja vi about this story. I found myself continually trying to remember which book I've recently read that I could compare it with but I couldn't because I began to settle in to the storyline which turned out to be quite enjoyable and wanted to find out the reason behind everything.

Brrrrrrr - that's me trying to shake off the goosebumps after reading The Other People, which I should also mention that I started yesterday morning with the intention of reading a couple of chapters and before I knew it, it was 6pm in the evening, I was still in bed and had finished the book.  If that doesn't tell you what I thought of The Other People, then I shall try to elaborate:

The Other People is CJ Tudor's third standalone thriller and, in my opinion, her best yet!  It's creepy as f*ck, weird, scary, hair-raising and spine-chilling and that's just the first chapter!!

Can you imagine stuck in traffic on the M1 and a little face appears in the back window of the car in front... it's your 5 year old daughter and she's mouthing DADDY... WTAF.. well that's what happens to Gabe.

The story then picks up three years late - Gabe is a broken man after the murder of his wife and daughter but he doesn't believe it was his daughter who died as he saw her in a car 3 years ago.  Katie is a single mother who works the night shifts in a motorway service station and has watched Gabe for years searching for his daughter.  Fran is on the run with her young daughter Alice trying to hide from someone who wants her and her daughter dead.  How are these people connected and what really happened to Izzy?

I won't say much more, except this really is a book you can't put down.  Each chapter leaves you gripped and gasping for more.  All the characters are fascinating and the pace of the story keeps your heart rate raised throughout.

I absolutely LOVED this book and although it's only 13 January 2020 it goes straight into my TOP TEN books of the year so far.

Gripping, well crafted thriller with a touch of the supernatural - it starts out pretty conventionally with a murdered wife, a missing daughter and an obsessed, broken dad trying to find her, but you realise soon not all is as it seems at first. Lovely combination of genres that completely floated my boat and made me read this in one session. Fabulous book - my first book by this author but I will seek out the others post haste!

This story is told from multiple perspectives, but I think Gabe is the protagonist of this novel. He is an absolutely crushed man, his wife was murdered, and his daughter is missing, even though everyone tries to convince Gabe that Izzy is dead, Gabe refuses to accept it, because he saw her that day in the rusty car. There are many various characters in this book, and they tell their own stories, but it is incredible how the author knitted their stories into one, a beautiful and absorbing masterpiece. The characters are so complex and intriguing, in the beginning, I was left guessing, why this random service station waitress is sharing her life story? But the more I read, the more addicted I got. :D I loved to get to know each and every character in this book.
The narrative is amazingly entwined. I really don’t know how the author was able to pull it off. :D It has everything, magical powers, mysticism, complicated family relationships, suspense and plenty of turns and twists. For me it is quite hard to put this book into one genre, it crosses so many of them. The plot never left me bored, Gabe’s thoughts throughout his chapters, were like peace before the storm, there were always surprises lurking in every chapter and I loved that.
The setting of this novel always keeps changing, depending on the character. The writing style of this book was impeccable. She chose perfect characters and weaved a perfect plot. The chapters have a very decent length and the whole book just flew by for me. The ending rounded the story very nicely, and I was very satisfied with the outcome. So, to conclude, this book is already in my TOP 10 of this year because it is filled with complex characters, very dark and intriguing plot, that kept me guessing, absorbed and absolutely hooked. C.J. Tudor is a Master of what she does, and I can not recommend her books enough.

Another fantastic read from this author, and I always feel I’m in a safe pair of hands when I pick up one of her books!
I don’t want to spoil too much of the story but once into it I was hooked.
Recommended read.

Thank you to Netgalley, CJ Tudor and Penguin Michael Joseph for my arc of The Other People in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis: it's been three years since Gabe's life fell apart. The day that his daughter and wife were killed. But Gabe saw his daughter that day, been driven away in a rusty old car. Problem is nobody believes him. Now Gabe has made it his mission to find that car, maybe in finding the car he'll find his daughter.
Katie works at a service station and sees Gabe every day, she feels for him and his search for his daughter because she lost a loved one once too. Her father was murdered and her sister disappeared the same day.
Fran and Alice are always running, Fran is desperately trying to put miles between them and the people who want to hurt them. Because Fran knows the truth about everything, she knows who wants to hurt them and why, and she knows what happened to Gabe's daughter.

Review: every book I've read by CJ Tudor has blown me away. She is a fantastic thriller author who will keep you up all night to finish her books. The Other People is no different, a brilliant twisty thriller which is so sinister it makes you frightened even as you can't stop turning the pages.

I really enjoyed this book so much. It has a really great plot, superb main characters and I read it in one sitting. I would highly recommend this book.

Absolutely thrilling and spine tingling! I love this sort of book as it keeps me enthralled and I never want to put it down. Always a sign of a good book!!! Thoroughly recommended #NetGalley#TheOtherPeople

Wow - an excellent book - the best I have read for a while. I had read the previous book from this author and really enjoyed it, although I wasn't entirely convinced by the supernatural element - but I found this one to have less of a supernatural element and as a result, I enjoyed it much more. It was well written and captivating and I would thoroughly recommend it.

This is a truly atmospheric page-turner, terrifying and gripping. It has so many twists and turns, culminating in a dramatic and unexpected ending. You won't want to put it down!

As expected, The Other People was pretty great! C.J. Tudor is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors. In her latest book she confirms her skill to create a suspenseful story with a supernatural element that is not overdone and still sends chills down your spine.

"Clickety-click, the pebbles whispered." 
"The Sandman is coming."

The Other People opens with Gabe driving home when he sees his 5 year old daughter in the back of a car in front of him. Gabe is almost sure he is mistaken as his daughter Izzy is supposed to be home with his wife waiting for him to turn up for dinner. When he calls home the police tell him there's been a robbery and both his wife and his daughter are dead. Fast-forward three years and Gabe is still searching for his daughter, refusing to accept that she died that day. When he discovers new proof that Izzy might be still alive and learns about the other people, things escalate quickly.

The Other People is a compelling multi-layered story, full of twists and tension that is bound to make you keep reading until you know all the answers.

C.J. Tudor is rapidly building a reputation as someone who is able to build twisted, dark thrillers with a supernatural edge and The Other People, her latest offering, doesn't disappoint.

This is a very intricately weaved story. Nothing is unimportant. Prepare to feel a range of emotions for the lead characters, from pity to fear to understanding and many others along the way. Gabe is a lost soul, desperately searching for the daughter everyone else insists is dead but he knows is alive; Fran spends her life on the run to protect her daughter from the same fate which befell Gabe's; Katie thinks she wants to escape from her life of drudgery as a single mother but is terrified of making the leap into the unknown which might bring about change. As their lives veer closer together, savvy readers will be able to put together clues and come up with some answers, but don't bank on those being the right answers. At every turn, Tudor is ready with another shock, another new piece of the puzzle, until the understated yet heart-thumping climax.

I think this might be my favourite C.J. Tudor novel to date.

4.5/5
I don’t think I have enjoyed a thriller this much in a long time. The other people. Just W.O.W. I’ve not yet read anything by CJ Tudor (there will be no stopping me now!!), so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I didn’t know this book was going to take me… THERE!

The other people has a lot going on, it’s a complex story with a fair few sub stories that you will be wondering for a while how they all link together – don’t worry, they do. The characters … I lovedddddddd them! I loved their individual stories and trying to piece together how everything fit. The characters all had fantastic, well thought out backstories, they had such depth to them that I felt there was really so much to get to know them by. I loved it.

I won’t say anything on the plot itself, I feel like it could be easily spoilt… but it was engaging and captivating with a surprising spooky twist – I’ve recently found out the supernatural aspect is Tudor’s style. It works so well with this story! Could not put this down, if you loved The Chain, you will LOVE this.

Well, The Chalk Man and The Taking Of Annie Thorne were both excellent, but this is even better! The story is riveting, the writing taut and the portrayal of character superb. What starts off as a tale of a man searching for his daughter, whom everybody else swears is dead, leads to so much more, and any reference to the twists and turns of plot would spoil the tension. What a great way to end one decade and begin the next!

This is the first C J Tudor book I have read. Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed the majority of the story - finding out what happened to Gabe and his daughter and how Fran fits into the story, I was not a fan of the supernatural element of it. It didnt really feel like it fit into the story of the characters and felt like it had been forced in, it made little difference to the actual plot I felt.
That being said the overall story was very good, and I would never have guessed what was going on!

I was lucky enough to be able to the read the opening chapters of this book beforehand I knew I had to read the book no matter what.

The story unfolds through three main characters Gabe, Fran and Katie. Gabe’s wife and daughter were murdered 3 years before but Gabe is convinced his daughter is still alive and we follow him on his search to find her and to prove he hasn’t  crazy. Fran is on the run from something or someone and then we have Katie, who works at a service station and frequently see’s Gabe come and go. I can’t say to much more about the plot, but what I can say is that this felt very original and I thought the pacing just right for me.

I have to admit at the start I was a little confused as to what was happening, and think this was because of the changing timeline to past and present, but as the plot unfold everything cleverly started to make sense.

The Other People is a cleverly written book that had me gripped from start to end. I was hooked by the engaging and captivating story that kept me at the edge of my seat. and couldn’t stop reading till I got to the end.

This  was a great engaging and captivating story that kept me at the edge of my seat, and if you’ve read and enjoyed her previous two books I think you will love this one too. I can’t wait to see what C.J.Tudor has in store for us next.

I can’t wait to add the physical copy to my other two books which share a space on my Stephen King book collection.  

I would like thank the publishers Penguin UK, Michael Josephand NetGalley for my eARC in return for an honest and unbiased review.

5 mysterious stars
It’s been a long time since I wanted to read a book by the author and I’m grateful to the publisher for my review copy.
A fast-paced read that I couldn’t stop reading from the first page till the last one. It’s not an ordinary suspenseful, psychological thriller, I found it much more interesting and unpredictable than anything I’ve read or better said expected. I really didn’t know where this story will take me and there are many moments when I was dreading the next scene because, having children is one of my dreaded fear, to come home and find out that your child was kidnapped and you don’t know how and if you’ll find them.
The narrative voice is everything in this story and all the different characters, twists and turns are making this book a must-read.

At first, I was confused, I wasn't 100% sure what was going on with the plot or who the characters actually were. But, Tudor cleverly linked the characters and the plot and everything just slotted perfectly together. I felt really sorry for Gabe and no matter what he had done, I willed him to feel complete as a person again and find his daughter, I also loved the character of Kate and wondered throughout whether she was more than a coffee shop waitress sideline character.

The book is cleverly written and I enjoyed it so much that I read it in one sitting. I always look forward to any book by C.J. Tudor.

You know that feeling when you pick up a book and you just know that you are going to love it? that was how I felt when I dipped into the first chapter of The Other People by CJ Tudor. I really am a fan of the author's work, it's always exactly the kind of book I love to read, but I have to say that I think this is my favourite one yet.

This is a dual narrative story, half of the book focused on Gabe, a man adamant that he had seen his daughter in the back of a strange car and who devotes his life to trying to track her down, even though everyone would have him believe she is dead. And, to be fair, there is overwhelming evidence that this could be true, every reason to doubt what Gabe thinks he saw. On the other hand we have Fran, a woman on the run, trying hard to protect her own daughter. But as to what she is on the run from and how these two stories tie together ... Well that's where this book becomes very very clever.

I don't want to say too much about the story as to do so would give too much away. But it is a kind of six degrees of separation kind of tale of the most thrilling and heart stopping kind. CJ Tudor has infused this book with . such tension, such compelling narrative, that you really don't need to work hard to suspend disbelief and let yourself be carried away by the tale that evolves in front of you.

I really felt for Gabe, for the broken man that he becomes and the way in which he feels haunted by his loss. But underneath it all there is a determination, a focus which endeared him to me and I wanted to see him come good. His relentless trawl up and down the motorway in search of clues feels both futile and heart-wrenching. He is not billed as the perfect man, and the more you read on the more you see the fractures that were spreading through his marriage and the surprising truth about his past. He is human, he has made mistakes and paid possibly the heaviest price as a result. But he is likeable. I was instantly drawn to him as a character.

Fran is an altogether different matter. You get the sense there is something hidden about her, and not just because she is running away. There is a tension in all that she does that adds to the dramatic feel of the scenes she features in. You know she is hiding the mother of all secrets and yet she remains one hundred percent focused on protecting her daughter, so despite a certain lack of trust, I did warm to her too.

CJ Tudor's stories are always infused with a sense of the supernatural or the spiritual, and this is no exception, although far less so obviously than the previous two novels. In this book the threat is far more human, and has a far darker feel as the basic premise is entirely possible. This is a book about the lengths, both good and bad, that someone will go to for family. There is an underlying tension, an atmosphere that comes from knowing the danger can been seen and felt quite clearly.

If you love CJ Tudor's books I am sure you will love this. Laced with mystery, suspense and heart pounding moments of action and intensity, it had me completely taken from the very first page.