Hannah’s life is almost perfect. She’s a full-time mother to two young children and married to successful cardiologist Daniel.  
The only thing missing is a project of her own. So she has poured heart and soul into converting their stone barn into a beautiful holiday rental.  
Things take a dark turn when visitors Mike and Nadia come to stay. They are noisy, dirty and disrespectful. Hannah is incensed by their behaviour, worried they may wreck her lovingly restored barn.  
But she gradually realises that property damage is the least of her worries. Nadia and Mike aren’t here just for a holiday - they have a deeper, darker purpose, one that threatens to destroy Hannah’s entire life.  
Thanks to NetGalley and Publisher for giving me an advanced copy.

This book was great. 
Scary and exciting to read. Would so recommend this to other people who ask. 
5*****

This book, as always was well written and actually pretty terrifying. Amazing and scary to think this could happen to any one of us.

I always love reading a good thriller, and this book does not disappoint.

The author nicely writes the book. It’s hard to put this book down once you start reading it. The author writes the story using short sentences that grabs your attention. Moreover, the plot is gripping, that holds your interest. The author also nicely paced the book. It starts slowly but picks up gradually, which leads to an exciting climax. Also, the ending had a nice twist to it that I did not see coming.

However, I thought the story ended abruptly and felt rushed. Moreover, while I enjoyed the plot, I did not care for the characters much. I felt Hannah came across as a weak character. At times, I wanted to shake her because she makes faulty decisions. It takes a while for her to stand up for herself. Daniel also unnerved me.

Nevertheless, the author writes the story in such a compelling manner that I could not put it down. Overall, “The Visitors” is a good mystery thriller that I enjoyed reading.

We all have a favourite author where you are guaranteed a great story and for me this author is one of mine. I have loved all of her other books!!

Hannah’s husband Daniel is a successful surgeon. She has converted their unused barn into a luxury holiday let and is hoping this new enterprise and her 2 children will keep her occupied, whilst her husband spends many nights working from home. 

Along comes the Jones family. Mike, Nadia and Kayleigh who is nine. They have booked to stay in the barn, but all is not well, let’s just say that they are not people you would want as your neighbours!! 

Without giving anything away the Jones’s complaints spiral into something more threatening and Hannah realises that her life will never be the same again!! To think at the beginning she was worried about a bad review from this obnoxious family and now she just wants them to leave!!

I was completely enthralled with this book and would highly recommend reading it.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

What a story!  I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller.The characters were realistic and some that you will love to hate.  The final twist was a little anti-climatic and I didn't particularly like the ending but all in all a very entertaining read.

I was intrigued by the premise of this one. The writing was compelling and I was curious to see where the story would go. I kept waiting for a big twist to happen during the final pages but the ending was just an okay conclusion to a mystery that happens later in on the book, in my opinion. I believe other readers might like the final reveal more than I did. The Visitors is a good read nonetheless.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview The Visitors by Miranda Rijks.  This is a UK thriller/suspense novel about Hannah. A married woman with two children and a husband who is a respected doctor.  Hannah is bored, so she opens up what we call an ABB and in the UK, a holiday cottage.  All is well until she has some visitors and they are from hell.
Mark and Nadia from day one are not only strange but are "Tone Deaf".  They appear to be rude, unclean, and overall not the kind of visitors Hannah expects in her lovely cottage.
Things go from bad to worse and soon Hannah realizes she can't get them out - they change the locks, they have all kinds of issues, and soon someone will face an unexpected end.  And Hannah is helpless to stop this madness and her world is suddenly not the same and won't ever be again.
Good UK thriller.
3.5 stars.

Fantastic edge of your seat thriller about the holiday rental guests from hell. When Hannah renovates her barn to be a holiday guest rental she has high hopes. With beautiful high end finishes, she expects to have no problem renting out the gorgeous property. What she doesn’t expect is Mike and Nadia and the chaos they bring. Extremely fast paced and addictive with an unexpected twist at the end, this book is a must read.

This is a great thriller. I enjoyed the plot, even if it was predictable at times. I read this book in one sitting, I would definitely recommend it.

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a copy of this E-book to review via Netgalley 
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Absolutely loved this book , loved the characters and the tense story with the slow build up . In fact I loved everything about this book , can’t rate highly enough . I will definitely be reading more from this author

The perfect(ly horrid) guests: lots of nervous suspense😳

4-4.5🌟 stars
Miranda Rijks is a new writer to me and I liked the constant suspense as heroine Hannah is constantly waiting for the next shoe to drop after she rents her holiday accommodation barn to a family of three and trouble ensues.

Hannah seems a perfectionist and a timid woman, a bit leery of her surgeon husband's moods and obsessing about getting good ratings from her paying guests.  She's terribly vulnerable on her isolated property with her husband away for days and increasingly demanding paying guests Nadia and Mike.  

Yes, in my armchair I kept questioning why she lets people keep pushing her without standing up for herself, but ultimately she does go on the offensive and that's when the story really took off for me.  There are numerous twists, some pretty predictable, but Rijks did a great job maintaining tension and mystery right through to the confrontational climax.  And then she gave Hannah a real opportunity to get her own back:  I loved the final scene at the prison!

On the whole, a solidly good whodunit that moved quickly and kept my interest beginning to end.

Thanks to publisher Inkubator and NetGalley for providing a complimentary advance copy of the book;  this is my voluntary and honest review.

Very good book, I loved it. It finally got me out of my slump of not reading. I loved all the crazy things they were doing in the barn and the first half of the book really kept me on my toes.

I’m praying that Miranda Rijks is holed up in Covid quarantine and writing twenty four/seven cos I could read her books every day of the year.  They don't follow a predictable formula  and it always feature some of the most despicable characters in psychological thriller land.  No exception here.  Holiday rentals and Airbnb seem like easy money to some but often they are the stuff of nightmares with awful stories in the press of trashed rooms and destroyed property.  Hannah, happy and somewhat naive quickly learns that some visitors should never, ever, be invited into your home, your family and your head.  Another of those just-one-more-chapter-books from this brilliant writer until you finish it  - and then can’t sleep as you can’t get over  what you just read.  And pray another is on it’s way.

A well written story with a predictable plot. As the story progresses one could easily guess where it is headed, nevertheless the writing style of the author kept the pace going. Any deviation and the reader would feel like closing the book. The conclusion felt inadequate as though the author was in a rush to finish it. An easy read with nothing heavy to dwell on.

After the conversion of her barn into a holiday rental, Hannah can’t wait for her new guests to arrive. But little does she know, that her new guests are going to become her worst nightmare…

This story is also my worst nightmare and exactly why I could never do what Hannah and others in the real world do by owning anything of this nature. My anxiety is at a all time high as it is, let alone dealing with unsavoury guests!

And how unsavoury they are! Miranda Rijks has created the worst kind in Nadia and Mike, who is just so vile! Nothing that Hannah does is good enough for him and I wanted to reach into my Kindle and smack him one. Basically put, they trash the place and are so disrespectful to Hannah.

As the story progressed, so did my sympathy for Hannah. While dealing with her nightmare guests, she also is dealing with a passive aggressive husband and as the cracks start to appear, there were so many times I just wanted her to stand up, regain control and take back her power over both situations.

The Visitors is a dark and twisty tale that Miranda Rijks has perfectly plotted and executed. This book is so much more than what the blurb suggests and when it really gets down to it and motivations are revealed, makes for a thrilling build up to its outcome.

I love Miranda Rijks books and she has delivered another cracking read with The Visitors. She is now on my list of favourite authors in the psychological thriller genre and I will be eagerly awaiting to read what she will come up with for her readers next.

Thank you to Miranda Rijks, Inkubator Books and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of The Visitors, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

This book greatly reminded me of the saying “No good deed goes unpunished”. The protagonist׳s decision to provide a couple of strangers a place to stay comes back to haunt her, with a vengeance...

I received an ARC copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for my,honest opinion of it. Hannah is leading the perfect life married to surgeon Daniel. They have two children and she teaches music on the side. She and her husband transform the barn on their property to a beautiful getaway that Hannah rents out to people. Along come renters, Nadia and Mike and their daughter. From the moment they move into the barn, Hannah and Daniel get bad vibes about them and then it all gets crazy. I so enjoyed this book and would highly recommend this very suspenseful novel.

I was drawn to this one for a number of reasons. Firstly, I have read a book by this author before and I found it to be original, suspenseful and well researched. Also, the title sounds mysterious and the striking cover completely pulls you in and mames you ask questions about who is visiting and why.

Hannah and Daniel’s life looks perfect from the outside. They are a well off family, Daniel has a good job and Hannah manages family life perfectly well, though she sometimes has to go it alone due to Daniel’s frequent trips to work away in London. Therefore, she can’t help feeling a little lonely and inadequate at times. She decides to throw herself into a barn conversion which she is going to turn into a holiday let. However, she gets far more than she bargained for with her first visitors…

The characters in this book are mostly realistic and definitely flawed. Hannah is easily influenced and manipulated, Daniel is an ignorant workaholic, and the guests are rude and selfish. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed disliking this these characters and shouting at them in my head!

One of the main things I love about Miranda’s books is that the suspense and tension is so subtle. It takes form as a very quiet and eerie sense of foreboding, as things go from bad to worse and inexplicable or unexpected things happen…

The tension builds very slowly and then there is a brilliant, shocking twist as we discover why Mike and Nadia are really there…

Overall, this has been a book which has completely pulled me in and gripped me in and one I would recommend to fans of psychological thrillers.

The Visitors is the latest standalone psychological thriller from bestselling author Miranda Rijks. and while her books can often be hit and miss for me, I felt this was her most accomplished and nerve-wracking to date. The prologue lands you right in the middle of the drama and details the thoughts of an unidentified murder suspect handcuffed in a holding cell. We then rewind to two weeks earlier and the lead up to the arrest. The story follows married couple Hannah and Daniel Pieters and their two children: eight-year-old Rosa and six-year-old Joel. Daniel works long hours as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon and is an arrogant, narcissistic guy, while stay-at-home mum Hannah has been busying herself with a renovation project. Best View Barn, a disused building on their stunning rural Cheshire property, has taken seven years of blood, sweat and tears to bring up to the Pieters’ exacting standards. Hannah had taken this on almost single-handedly, along with her family obligations and job as a piano teacher, as Daniel works away in Manchester and London for the majority of the week. With the intention of turning it into a successful business venture, Hannah has equipped it with a country-style kitchen with handmade tiles, fresh lilies and fragrant sweet peas adorning the rooms and beautiful furniture; all top quality and stylish yet hard-wearing.

The last couple to rent had been older and kept to themselves, but Hannah hopes the next visitors will be more interactive. Nadia and Mike Jones and their daughter Kayleigh, from Sussex, have paid in advance to spend a week in this idyllic Peak District location. Mike makes some unkind comments and she notices they have more luggage than they need for their short break. Hannah does her best to accommodate the couple, even baking them a Victoria sponge cake to welcome them, but nothing is ever enough for them and then she works out who they are. Is a terrible secret from her past finally coming back to haunt her? Well, this is enough to put me off wanting to rent out our second home as a holiday let, that's for sure. It's a terrifyingly realistic story with intense drama and palpable tension running throughout, and I enjoyed the slow-burn nature of it. The cast is mostly full of detestable characters but they are memorable, and I felt sorry for Hannah who feels trapped in an unhealthy, abusive marriage. Rijks has once again created a thoroughly gripping and compulsive psychological thriller, which had me quickly under its spell. From the very beginning, I was engrossed in the story and it's evident that the author is learning more and more about how to scintillate her readership with each new book she publishes. Undoubtedly, her best so far. Highly recommended.