Another good book from Alice Feeney. I loved Daisy Darker and this one is written in the same way with several character’s point of views, with the twists and turns cleverly hidden, keeping you guessing most of the way. Enjoyable though not as amazing as her other books.

Thank you so much NetGalley, Pan MacMillan and Alice Feeney for my ARC of Good Bad Girl!🐞

I LOVED this book so much! It was a little slow to begin with, but once it got going… golly me — I couldn’t put it down!! I was so invested! I really enjoyed the different POV’s; they had me continuously trying to work out what the relations were.
Also, can we talk about the TWIST… 🤩

Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy now!!

4.5/5⭐️

Rating - 4.5 stars rounded off to 5

🐞Blurs the lines between good and bad! 🐞

Thanks NetGalley & Pan Macmillan for the ARC!

Good Bad Girl is a classic Feeney thriller with her trademark addictive hook – this time in the form of a lady-bird🐞!

Synopsis -

A baby is stolen from a stroller in a supermarket. Twenty years later, there’s a murder in a care home. These two seem to be linked to our “Good Bad Girl” and she might be the only one who can help uncover the truth.

Octogenarian Edith, is frustrated with her care home and can’t wait to make her escape. Striking up a friendship with Patience, the cleaner, Edith begins trusting her – given her strained relationship with her daughter, Clio. But will Patience live up to her confidence?

Meanwhile, Frankie, the prison librarian is looking for her runaway of a daughter. Soon, the lives of all these women is bound to intersect.

Review -

The plot grabbed me right from the first page when the baby gets stolen. It’s here that the narrative is so cleverly disguised setting in motion – extreme confusion and curiosity.

As the POVs alternate between Edith, Patience, Clio and Frankie - our minds become a whirlpool of a multitude of questions - how these women might be related, who the runway girl might be, who took the baby and most of all – who can be trusted. Only, Feeney will not give away any of the answers easily.

While the havoc causing kidnapping, murders and runaways drive one half of the plot, the other half is subtle and tenderness infused, as it deals closely with various shades of mother-daughter relationships - the struggles of a new mother, post-partum depression, the devastation of losing a child, a daughter, the betrayal and finally estrangement.

The murder in the care home is the crucial tangent that sends the momentum through the roof. A cat and mouse game of sorts begins revealing the secrets, the lies, all the bad things that happened to good people, the bad deeds the good were forced to resort to and finally how all these women are connected.

You might feel as though you have figured it all out – the baby thief, the disappearing daughter and the murderer, but don’t be fooled! Feeney will say “not so fast” and smack us bang on the head with a twist you never imagined!

Don’t miss out on this one!

I wasn’t sure on this one at first, the story is told from 4 different povs and I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m easily frustrated when I can’t work out what the connection is between all the characters at first.
As it went on and began to unravel I really did enjoy it and the last half I couldn’t put down I was racing through to see what happened and the twists through your where fab.
Overall a slow start but packed a real punch as it got going.

Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to read this arc.

This is a great convoluted, mystery that is both clever and highly entertaining.
Edith is forced into a nursing home by her daughter and son, She is an intolerant, somewhat overbearing, no nonsense, shrewd and thoroughly entertaining character.
She self isolates in her room as she has no time for the other residents but has found a bond with one of the staff, Patience, who smuggles in her dog in to see her, after her daughter said she could not keep it in the home.
Struggling to get by, with a slightly chequered past, Patience gets caught seemingly stealing things and is sacked. This is the same day that Edith’s daughter visits on Mother’s day and argues with the vile Residential Home Manager about her inability to keep paying the fees. A short while later the manager is found murdered. So the whodunnit quest begins…
The story cuts back to an early time when a baby is abducted from a supermarket, never to be found, as well as the backstory to all the characters so you fond out about them, what they have become the way they are and how they are all connected…
Despite the murder is it fun filled, with lots of wit and humour amidst the more tender and emotional stuff. You’ll probably piece it together before the end of the book, but it is still fun getting there.

I stayed up late into the night trying to finish this book! I was desperate to know what would happen, how all the characters in the story were connected- I was sure they were but had no idea how.
How did Alice Feeney think of such a fiendishly clever plot?
Told from the viewpoint of several different women this is the story of a missing baby, a daughter who has run away, an elderly care home resident who is convinced her friend has been murdered and her daughter whom she barely speaks to.
All these characters are so beautifully described but so cleverly that vital information is missing and the reader has to use all their powers of deduction to work out what is going on.
Patience, a young girl working in the care home tries to help Edith, the elderly resident, trying to figure out if there really is a murderer lurking in the woodwork.
It is also more than a psychological thriller in that it examines motherhood and what it really means.
This is an oh so clever book and I really don’t want to reveal too much about the plot as it would spoil it. Suffice it to say you won’t be able to put this book down!
Definitely a five star read!
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my advance copy.

Another cracker by the author, I have loved all her books, you never no what you are going to expect, which I love.

I do feel this was a slower burn, than her previous books, but I still enjoyed it. The characters were well written and we got back stories for all of them, I really enjoyed the different POVs and timelines.

I liked that the book focuses on the negative relationships between families and how this affects people.

Och, I'm sorry I just couldn't finish book. I became bored. However, I rhink I was expecting more drama or ation and I gave up. I can see its brilliantly written. Just not enough psychological thriller xx

This was a good book, though I did find it a bit slow in the beginning. Jumping perspectives wasn't my favorite aspect, however that didn't change the fact that I was intrigued to find out how everyone was connected. I would have liked maybe a bit more than one chapter at a time focused on each character so that I could understand them a little better, it did get confusing at times. However, a very well written book, with a story you definitely want to get to the bottom of. A solid 3 stars.

This domestic suspense thriller begins with a slow start. I am ashamed to say that it took me twice as long as normal to finish this book. Feeney explores themes of postpartum depression and what it means to be a good mother, which wasn't for me, but I do appreciate the story for what it is and I think a lot of people are going to love this one.

Good Bad Girl is another intriguing release from Alice Feeney. Twenty years ago, a baby is stolen from a pushchair at the supermarket. Back in the present day, a woman is killed in a care home. It seems that the two crimes are in some way connected—but how?

Throughout the novel, we follow three women: Patience, a care home worker; Edith, stuck in a care home by her daughter but desperate to leave; and Clio, Edith’s daughter. We soon find out that each has their own secrets and motivations.

The chapters, each told by a different main character, alternate and offer us insight into their lives. The characters are not perfect—each has their own flaws—which made them feel even more realistic. Although at times I got a bit confused as to who was being spoken about or whose perspective we were reading at that moment, it all made sense by the end.

I always expect twists from Alice Feeney’s books, and Good Bad Girl is no exception. There are some truly satisfying surprises! I really enjoyed this fun, compelling read.

I have enjoyed most of the author’s previous books but found this one slow and confusing. The story is told for various points of view and jumps around a lot. I did not find it great as a thriller. Thanks to Net Galley for ARC.

This was a well-written book with an interesting story about how the lives of 4 women were interconnected. I saw some of the plot twists coming, but not all of them. This was definitely a slow burn, we got to meet the women first: Patience, Edith, Jennie, and Clio. For some reason it was kind of hard for me to keep track of who was who and what was happening in their POV (apart from Edith's) even though there wasn't that many characters it took me a while to get everything straight in my head.

This is more of a domestic drama (not sure I'd call it a thriller even though there is one murder in it). It's more about the lives of these women and their pasts and how they connect in the present to link to a murder. It was an interesting story, but the plot and secrets were revealed very slowly. There was also not a lot of action, it was mostly the women talking to each other or trying to find one another. I didn't really like any of the characters, although some of them were likeable from one person's POV but not from another person's which I found very interesting. I hated Jude!

Overall this was a good book and I did really like how it ended. It focused on the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters and families in general. The murder pretty much took a back seat to the rest of the story. I would recommend this if you like thrillers that focus more on the characters relationships with one another and aren't very gory.

A fabulously written gripping story that was a pleasure to read. I would absolutely recommend this book

Another excellent read from the queen of psychological thrillers. As usual, Alice Feeney has written a real page-turner with the requisite twists, a fascinating plot and a splendid array of interesting female characters. Very enjoyable.

This book is a bit of a ‘whodunnit’, told from four female main character perspectives. As the story unfolds we discover the links between these four women.

I was engrossed in this book from the beginning, I thought the pace was great, building as the story went on. As we discovered the stories and pasts of our main characters I was rooting for them all.

This was well plotted, multi layered, lots of revelations, captivating read! Feeney is fantastic at weaving storylines together like this!

I was lucky enough to receive an early copy of this. I would definitely recommend this one, it’s out now!

Alice Feeney books are normally 5 stars all the way with me., but oh dear! Where is Alice Feeney and what have you done with her? This book started with great promise but never really took off. Since when in the UK did we speak American and use American spellings. No. It just jars. I was so disappointed with this book. It sort of meandered rather that twisted and I can't say I was a fan of the characters. I really, really hate to say this but no, Come back soon Alice please

“The conversation lasts less than three minutes. My back is turned less than two. One minute later my world ends. The buggy is empty. Time stops. The supermarket is suddenly silent, as though someone has turned down the volume.”

My thanks to Pan Macmillan for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Good Bad Girl’ by Alice Feeney.

In recent years I have been impressed with how original Feeney has been with her amazing plot twists. As a result, I came to her latest psychological thriller ‘cold’; with no foreknowledge of its plot. I was glad that I did as it proved a fascinating character-driven mystery.

The novel opens with a prologue in which a six-month old baby disappears in a supermarket. The story then comes forward twenty years with the perspective moving between a number of well-realised characters to build up an interconnected narrative.

There was a gentleness to some aspects of the story that I felt entered semi-cosy territory. Still, I didn’t feel that these lighter elements detracted from the overall suspense, merely provided some respite and warmth.

Overall, I found ‘Good Bad Girl’ another brilliant thriller from Alice Feeney that once started I couldn’t put down. She is a remarkable talent and I am already looking forward to her next project.

4.5 stars rounded up to 5.

I really enjoy an Alice Feeney book! She's an author I will always read.
This book was gripping, and fun!
It was an easy read, and Feeney's writing felt very filmic! I could imagine this as a Netflix series.

I must admit, there were times when I felt a little lost - at the beginning, due to the subplots and lots of characters - but the more I read, the more I enjoyed it.

Another great book from Alice Feeney!!

Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book. I do love Alice Feeney’s work, bar one, and I was so looking forward to reading this one.

This book certainly was a great psychological thriller, one that has me hooked and thinking how the hell is this all going to come together.

The book is centred around Mothers Day and we follow several women in their lives. Each woman is somehow linked to the other women in the story.

The author drops lots of clues throughout and once the final twist was revealed, it was so clever how it came together. I had worked out most of the novel, but there were things missing from my theory

I really enjoyed this book. It is a page turner and a great domestic thriller book.