It’s New Year’s Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh’s best postcodes. It’s a moment for old friends to set the past to rights - and move on.
The night sky is alive with fireworks and the champagne is flowing. But the celebration fails to materialise.
Because someone at this party is going to die tonight.
Midnight approaches and the countdown begins - but it seems one of the guests doesn’t want a resolution. They want revenge.

I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley to read in exchange for a review before it is released in April!
I was definitely not disappointed by this book. I was hooked from the first page and felt that I was involved in the book. I felt the book was well written jumping from her teens to her current life situation. I felt it was an easy read that kept you wanting to read more and more. I had a little suspicion regarding one of the main characters which turned out to be true and other thoughts that I had completely wrong! I felt the book really picked up towards the end and feel the ending wasn’t rush at all. Definitely a book worth reading. I highly recommend to my fellow book people!

I rate this book a 4.5 🌟

The story starts at a lavish Party in Edinburgh New Year’s Eve. Everyone is having a good time with Champagne and canapes. It is an end of a year and a start of a new one and new beginnings. When things go wrong and 2 people fall off the roof and die impaled on the railings.
The story is then told by Sylvie a legal professional who hopes to be a judge and Tess who is Sylvie’s friend since school. They not always seen eye to eye and had their fair number of troubles. When they were younger, they were witnesses in a court case which later comes back to haunt them. Tess is married to Marcus. They are currently going through a rough patch in their marriage so when Tess is diagnosed with a brain tumour, she decides to renew her vows.
The story tells of the toxic relationship that all have for each other. From when they were at school together until that fatal night when two of them are killed.
Thank you Headline for a copy of It ends at midnight by Harriet Tyce. This is the first book from the author that I have read. But I heard good things about her previously novel ‘Blood orange’ I couldn’t wait to read it.
This has a great storyline that builds up with tension after we discover what went on in the past and present time. But I found hard to connect to the characters especially Sylvie. I didn’t think she was very likeable and a bit hypocritical of her younger days and trying to be a judge. I only got really engrossed in it about the last third of the book. 3.5 stars from me.

3.75⭐️
It has dual locations and time frames. The central characters are Sylvia and Tess who have been life long friends.
At the start we know that there are 2 bodies.

I didn’t like the main characters, they are self centred and manipulative. It would have been good to have one character who I was really rooting for.

It’s a slow burn. The tension is built by constantly alluding to the ‘bad thing that happened’ with facts being gradually revealed.
Although it’s a plot device, the revealing that there’s some information that the narrator is privy too but delays revealing it to build tension I find irritating.
There’s a few twists and turns. There are some small revelations along the way but most are kept for the finale. Even then I wasn’t sure 100% who was telling the truth. There were a few things that still didn’t seem to add up for me. I didn’t think that it had a strong ending.

It was an enjoyable read, It has a great hook, but I don’t think the book delivered to that very good opening.

The book starts with dead bodies and a fox licking up blood so you know there are deaths to come, and is told in flashbacks to Sylvie's teenage years, her present life and also mini chapters from the people discovering the bodies afterwards for added insight. The story was fascinating and totally kept my interest. Thank you so much for a great read. I will be looking out for future books by this author.

After reading previous books by Harriet Tyce and enjoying them I was very pleased to receive a copy of her third book, due for release in April.

‘It Ends At Midnight’ is set on New Years Eve where a house party is in full swing to celebrate Hogmanay and what better place to celebrate than back in Edinburgh where it all began for a group of old friends. However it soon becomes clear that some guests won’t be setting any resolutions a midnight but will instead be taking revenge…

Throwing you right in from the very start, but technically with the ending, the scene is set for piecing together the story and for you to figure out just who the characters are that are found in a very alarming predicament. The story flows at a really good pace and you are kept captivated by what’s coming next. There are some quite crudely described scenes at times but fits with the context of the narration and the content discussed. I did guess some elements at quite an early stage but it still kept me intrigued enough to carry on going to find out if I was correct and obviously the end result.

Another enthralling read from Harriet Tyce that would recommend!

It Ends at Midnight is a gripping, emotional thriller toggling between events in 1989 and now, for Sylvie and Tess. You'll need a strong stomach at the start- a fairly gruesome scene is depicted, and the whole story builds up to how it happened. Sylvie is a likeable character, Tess less so, but I was really invested in what Sylvie was going through. I really like Harriet's writing style, really easy to read and get inside the MC's head. A fab exciting read! Well done! Highly recommend.

`Having loved Blood Orange, I'll always pick up a Harriet Tyce book. This one started with two bodies, immediately hooking the reader in. Throughout the book, we are fed small details from people working at or part of the crime scene but not enough to know the identity of the victims. Other than this short chapters, we read exclusively from the point of view of Sylvie, meaning we get a really intimate insight into her thoughts, feelings and past. That said, I'm always aware of a potential unreliable narrator and Sylvie was no different. I didn't find I warmed to any of the characters in this book and it's no wonder, being full of toxic relationships. I always enjoy that Harriet's book typically follow a member of a legal team and her expertise and experience of the environment as a former barrister always shines through. The case over which Sylvie presided also offered an interesting juxtaposition. Unfortunately I figured out the big 'twist' pretty early on but there were a couple of smaller ones I wasn't expecting. Overall this was a well-written, easy read that builds suspense from the first page.

I enjoyed this book & being from Scotland. I loved the Edinburgh connection. Thanks for the opportunity to read & review this book.

An interesting take on nothing is as it seems. It tells the story of Sylvie an aspiring judge in a new happy for once relationship and her toxic friendship with Tess who is dealing with a brain tumor. It is told in multiple timelines, what happened when they were teenagers and the guilt from those secrets, the current and even more current when we know a woman and a man have died. Our perceptions of who is good, who is innocent and who is not changes as the book goes on. 4.5

At a New Year’s Eve party in festive Edinburgh, two party guests fall from the roof and are killed. Is this a tragic accident from people having a bit too much to drink and maybe being on a roof when they shouldn’t have, or is this something more sinister?

This book follows Tess who, after recently being diagnosed with a terminal illness, tries to reconnect with old friends and make everything in her life right. Her marriage has been a rocky lately so she decides that her and her husband should renew their wedding vows surrounded by their nearest and dearest. Slyvie and Tess have been living in guilt for years over a shared secret, and Tess is desperate for closure after her diagnosis, but it seems that someone doesn’t want closure, they want revenge. So what happens when you have two people forced into a friendship because of a deadly secret? It doesn’t take much for that friendship to unravel. One secret, two truths, two vulnerable women. So what exactly happens at midnight? You’ll have to read the book to find out.

This was my first read by Harriet Tyce but it won’t be my last, I was gripped from the first page right until the last one. The plot was very well executed and although I guessed one of the plot twists, it didn’t dampen my spirits while reading the book. I don’t know if Tyce has a career in the legal profession, or has just done incredible research into it, but her legal knowledge in this book is amazing.

Thank you to Headline for sending me a proof in exchange for an honest review.

TRIGGER WARNING; SEXUAL ASSAULT.

It’s taken me a couple of days to get my thoughts together on how I’m going to review and rate this novel.
On the one hand, the storyline/plot is great and has a clever twist, but in other ways, I found it shocking and offensive.

This is the first novel by Tyce that I’ve read (I have Blood Orange on my TBR) and she did a great job of creating suspense and keeping you guessing surrounding who the bodies were that were found impaled. I did however, find most of the characters annoying and very entitled, which made me not really care what happened to any of them, even Sylvie. The only characters I had any sympathy for were Linda and Marcus.
There was a lot of legal/law jargon that unless you know your stuff, it kind of just goes over your head (as it did mine). However, I did like that Sylvie was a judge, as I've never read a novel with the main protagonist of a judge rather than a lawyer, so I enjoyed that it was slightly different.

Sylvie's friendship with Tess is a toxic one. She is always on edge around her, not knowing if she has said something to annoy/upset Tess, and I found myself wanting to jump into the book and shake Sylvie, telling her that Tess is a terrible friend and she deserves better.

There was one particular scene within the novel that shocked me to the core, and I couldn’t believe how badly Sylvie reacted to it. This scene involved a graphic sexual assault, and Sylvie was very passive and acted ignorant to it. This infuriated me and I had to stop reading for a few hours as I just couldn’t believe it had happened.

Overall I thought the storyline was good, and the very final twist at the end was unexpected, but I found myself getting more annoyed with each character as the story went on, and I just did not find how Sylvie reacted to things very believable, so this reduced my enjoyment of the novel.

Blood Orange remains one of the best books I’ve read in the past few years, so I’ll read anything by Harriet Tyce. Her second novel was enjoyable if not as strong, but It Ends at Midnight is Tyce at her best once again. From the first page she draws you into a story that’s immediately intriguing and thanks to her expert plotting and fascinating characters it ends up getting better and better. The ending was perfectly executed too. I read this one in two days and was always sorry to put it down!

I really enjoyed this story. I felt like every chapter ended on a cliff hanger and I literally couldn't put it down. I loved Blood Orange and I loved this too.

I was really hoping to be approved for this book and was thrilled to have been offered the opportunity to read an ARC copy. Having found Blood Orange a bit of a ‘marmite book’ (I hated it), I wanted to give Harriet Tyce another try; mostly due to recommendations from friends who had read The Lies You Told. I absolutely loved this book and was gripped from beginning to end. The process of unravelling the story through flashbacks to Sylvie and Tess’s past is genius. You know people have died from the beginning, but it not revealed until the end who has died. Brilliant - even if I didn’t enjoy Blood Orange!

This book is SO addictive... and led to me spending a few evenings up past midnight reading. Harriet Tyce writes a legal thriller like no other, and I loved how this turned some of the tropes of the genre totally on their heads.

Harriet Tyce does it again! An excellent mystery novel set on New Year’s Eve, and a cast of characters that are as interesting and oftentime twisted as the plot.

It's a very good storyline that pulls you in from the beginning. Curiosity makes you want to read more.

It was engaging and kept me turning those pages.

I look forward to reading more of this author and appreciate the opportunity to review this one!

Another enthralling and suspenseful read from Harriet Tyce. I love all her books. Excellent characterisation and full of twists, kept me totally enthralled. Harriet's books are not formulaic and I cant wait for more from this fabulous author.

Sylvie and Tess have been best friends since high school and all seems wonderful with them as they approach middle age. Sylvie, a London lawyer and narrator of the book, is in a good place, she's on track to make her dream of becoming a judge come true, and has started a relationship with a chef she meets at a conference. But this is a thriller and darkness from the friends' past starts upturning their lives. A major twist is fairly clear early on but it's still a gripping pageturner looking at toxic friendships, perceptions and, lies. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC.

This is a fast paced book. Parts of it dragged a little though, especially the court case, but I felt that the ending was really rushed. There was no real explanation to how Sylvie turned out like she did. It was a good book to read overall but it definitely needs tweaking.