Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the gifted e-arc.

It's not my nature to struggle with thrillers, but this was a tough one for me to finish. Full disclosure, I have not read books one and two in the series but I don't think that would change my overall reading experience. The writing style and pace were my major challenges . The pace is slow for the genre and the language is extremely descriptive -tons of adjectives and dialogue that didn't seem to move the plot. It also took away tension and suspense.

While NO ONE TO HELP HER wasn't a match for me, I'm in the minority when you look at Goodreads and there are lots of reviewers who loved it.

This is book three in a series. The plot is interesting. The majority of the characters I didn’t like. The pace is very slow. There is too much romance and not enough thriller for me

I received this ARC from JoffeBooks, thank you
This is third in series, but I did not realise until end of book, so can be read as a stand alone.

The plot is great and did keep me guessing, however the entire story was slow, much of the dialogue felt laboured at times, lots of romance rather than the thriller of the story, the ending felt contrite and not really wrapped up at all.

Had great potential but didn't really deliver

This is the third book in the Detective Chris Bailey series. How did I miss this author!!!

Detective Chris Bailey is called out in the middle of the nigh. The call out is to a country lane where a dead woman has been found, she has been shot five times in the back and is missing a shoe. Even though it's February she is not wearing a coat. When more bodies turn up it looks like a serial killer is on the loose!!!

An intriguing story that kept me gripped throughout. I will definitely be reading the others in this series.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a decent book. I loved the twists and it was fast paced and easy to read. Thank you netgalley for making this book available to read.

Third in this series featuring Detective Chris Bailey. Full of intrigue and complications, a lot to unravel. A good read.

ot my typical read but I found myself liking the characters and wondering what would happen next! There is a little romance but it's not over the top. The real story is who is killing these people and why.... I enjoyed finding out! You will too!

Okay, so I'm a Gen Zer, and there's a difference between including diversity and trying to push it in to an already made story. This book felt like the latter. That being said - it was a good book with good writing and a murder mystery (I'm a sucker for a good murder mystery!).

The third book in the Detective Chris Bailey books
Another great read
A definite page turner
With some great twists
Thanks NetGalley

This is a new to me author and I have to say I am looking forward to reading more by this author! I loved this book

Kate Watterson is back with a tense and terrifying crime thriller that will keep readers glued to its pages: No One to Help Her.

Detective Chris Bailey is called up in the middle of the night to a rural Tennessee highway where the body of a young woman has been found. It’s late February and the woman was not wearing a coat, her empty purse is just a few feet away and she is missing one shoe. The victim had been shot five times and there is a pool of dark crimson around her head. When another body is found in the exact same position, it becomes abundantly clear that there is a serial killer on the loose and Chris is determined to catch them before more bodies are found.

The prime suspect is the first victim’s brother, Mick. With her ID and her shoe found at his house, the evidence is certainly pointing firmly in his direction. But Mick has no motive and no reason to kill his sister or anyone else for that matter, having only just returned to the area after working in Chicago. Could the acrimonious end of his relationship with his sister’s best friend have somehow pushed him over the edge and driven him to murder? Or is he being framed for a crime he did not commit?

Bailey will not stop until he has put the killer behind bars, but as this investigation gets more tangled and complicated, will he find out whodunnit? Or does this bewildering case have even more shocks and surprises in store for the detective?

Kate Watterson’s No One to Help Her is a chilling serial killer thriller packed with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers guessing. Kate Watterson knows how to plot a gripping chiller that will keep readers up all night and with No One to Help Her, she has once again pulled a blinder and written one action-packed page-turner that has me eagerly anticipating her next book.

Really loved this book, such a fantastic book, have read all this authors other books with this detective series and they all are brilliant. All the stories are just amazing with such good intriguing mysteries and very good characters in all them , such a gripping story with so many twists and turns that leave you guessing to the very end, so well written. Would really highly recommend this book and all the others too.

Totally loved the story and the characters, I loved reading about the killers thoughts, but felt like something was missing - I wanted to know the reason behind the murders! The story sucked me in, and kept me hooked! The romance, the back stories, the drama….. Hope to read more from this author.

Interesting but at times confused me with changing voices. Very violent at times.
Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this arc

Book #3 in this series and I do want to go back to read the first 2! Works as a stand alone but I think that I would like the character development from the first 2.

The biggest thing that I appreciated about this book was any time something happened and the character was trying to decide if they should tell the cops…. They did. My anxiety loved that! It’s so stressful in books when the characters should just tell the detective something!

There was so many conversations about food - which I guess is the same with my normal life, so I am for it!

I do think that the killer could have had a bigger role earlier in the story to make the twist even better. I also think that the action was a little slow in the beginning of the book and then jam packed in the last little bit… and the ending was sort of rushed.

This book was confusing , drawn out & couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a thriller with romance or a romance with a few murders thrown in. There was way too much, “he looked at her shiny auburn hair & luminous eyes & thought why did we ever break up? Over & over again.

Plus the dialog was off. One character would ask another a question, & the 1st one wouldn’t answer. In fact, the author would say what lovely weather they were having.

Then there were long paragraphs that you didn’t know who was saying what.

A great editor could clean it up but not the lame premise of the book, & the ending was left with too many loose ends. I realized when I finished (finally after a month & I almost DNF) that it was a series & I’d read book 3. Does she plan on more? Who knows, it doesn’t tell you. I didn’t like the writing style, characters or the storyline enough to keep reading her.

This book was given to me by #Netgalley to read as an ARC in exchange for my honest & unbiased opinion. I thank them for the opportunity. #NOONETOHEHER by Kate Watterson.

This author creates well-drawn, complex characters, and knows how to build tension and drama that hold readers to the end. With several plot twists it managed to keep me guessing until the end. Even then I was surprised. I’m not easily surprised.

I really enjoyed this book.
I have to admit, this is a new author to me and even though it's part of a series i read it as a standalone and it made no difference to me.
If you don't mind a bit of romance with your crime, you'll enjoy this. book.
The story is great and the characters are believable, so it's easy to connect with them.
There are red herrings throughout, and twists and turns and all in all I would recommend this book.

Detective Chris Bailey is called to a crime scene in the middle of the night. The body of a woman was found at the side of the road, with no coat, empty handbag bag dumped at the side of the road, and missing a shoe. Her brother Mick has only just moved back to the area, and he was not even aware his sister had come back home. Mick wanted to move back home, live in his newly bought cabin by the lake, and live a peaceful life. Instead he is devastated by Bailey and his partner Carter showing up at his door, making the connection via DNA testing.

He is even more upset when someone breaks into his cabin and leaves Amanda’s ID and missing shoe in his kitchen. What follows is more bodies, more missing shoes, and more property of the deceased showing up at Mick’s place. It soon becomes clear that Mick is not the killer, but why is he being targeted? Who is the killer, and why are they tormenting Mick? Bailey needs to find out, and quickly, before more bodies are found.

On paper, this book sounds great. A gritty mystery/thriller, with a complex plot to solve. In practice, it didn’t quite meet the mark. Mick, as the brother of a woman who had just been murdered, and having to entail the trauma of identifying her body, forgoes comforting his parents, and instead, jumps straight back into a relationship with his now dead sister’s best friend, who is also his ex girlfriend. I know everyone copes with grief in different ways, but there was a lot of romance, and food talk in this book, and not as much focus on the lives lost and what they should be doing to stop more crime.

Speaking of food, I don’t think I have even had so much information on what a character is going to eat for dinner throughout a story. Make that characters, as they were all at it! This was also book three in a series with Detectives Bailey and Carter, and I didn’t really feel like there was much missing out at all, so it works well as a stand alone.

Overall a good detective mystery, but with too much romance and food focus for me, it took away from what could have been a great story.

*I received this book from NetGalley for review, but all opinions are my own.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #JoffeBooks for my advance copy of #NoOneToHelpHer by #KateWatterson
I only read a third of this novel before skipping to the end, I just couldn’t get into it at all.
I’m sure this book will be enjoyed by many people but not for me.