Good Bad Girl is another twisty and heartfelt domestic noir thriller from Alice Feeney. I liked the story's multiple narrators and the way the story gradually came together over different time frames. I particularly enjoyed Edith's and Patience's sections and I didn't predict how it would all resolve. Overall it packs quite an emotional punch, with a satisfactory conclusion.

A web of lies and interweaving family relationships lies at the heart of this novel. A murder at a care home - but who is the culprit? Three women seem to have had the opportunity to commit the crime - but did they have a motive - and is so, what?

What does it mean to be a mother, to be a daughter and what does it mean to love? Edith, Clio, Frankie and Nellie - also known as Patience discover more about each other and themselves than they ever dreamt they would.

I couldn’t finish this book as much as I normally love alice Feeneys books! It followed too many people and was a very slow pace compared to her normal books

A true psychological thriller. Four completely different characters are introduced. How do they fit together and where is the missing baby. A really good, gripping read getting to the conclusion. I loved it. Another great suspenseful read from Alice Feeney.

I was excited to read my first Alice Feeney book but this one didn't do it for me at all! I thought it was very slow with little tension or suspense. It was more of a domestic drama than a thriller which was disappointing.

I'm glad I stuck with it as the ending was the best part but it was difficult to get invested in this book and hasn't really inspired me to read any more of her work!

Buddy read with Irena and Ani.
Great writing style as always from Alice Feeney.
Each chapter gave a character's perspective and throughout the book, we all were discussing how they were linked, who committed which crimes and whether someone was not who they were fully describing who they are.

Aside from 1 murder and a stolen baby, which left us unsure who did the crimes, the story was all about the characters and how they were connected.

Not my favourite of Feeney's books but her previous ones all were of such high standard. So I still recommend this one.

Lots of talk of mother daughter relationship.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I love Alice Feeney books, and this one was no exception. A little slow to start but when it does all come together wow-A great read. Recommended.

I love Alice Feeney. I was a massive fan of Daisy Darker - probably my favourite book by her now.....I had high hopes for this one....her books are usually up and down in terma of enjoyment for me. This one was good but busy and I kept getting sidetracked. Worth a read if you can keep it straight :)

i struggle with multiple p.o.v octen get lost and have to go back too remember which character comes from where didnt have too as much with this book it was easy enough too follow.
However it took a while for me too get into and was hard too relate too some of the characters in this book though i didnt see the end coning so thats a good thing, i will look out for more alice feeney books.

This was a brilliant page-turning psychological thriller with a really well plotted storyline. It is actually my first Alice Feeney, and certainly won't be my last if this is what I can expect. I loved the way we learnt just enough, at just the right points to keep guessing and trying to work out what the 'truth' was - I was hooked!

All of the main cast of characters were so well fleshed out and the little twists and 'dead ends' in this cleverly cryptic plot made this a really compelling read. I loved the multiple POV's and the chapters were the perfect length to keep you wanting to read just a little more......

This was a great choice for a buddy read, I read it with 3 other bookstagrammers and it was great to test our theories out on each other....we definitely chatted about it a lot!!

Having really enjoyed a few of Alice Feeney's previous books (especially Daisy Darker) I was pleased to receive a copy of Good Bad Girl.
It took me a while to get into it, but I liked all of the main characters and found it a good read in the end. Kept me guessing & I didn't manage to unravel everything before it was revealed.
My thanks to Netgalley & the Publisher for my e-ARC in return for my honest review.

Absolutely brilliant, loved it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me an advance copy, I will definitely be recommending.

Really enjoyed this book. It is one of those books that keeps you turning the page to find out what is going to happen next. It pulls you in right from the start. Very well written

Good Bad Girl is the latest twisty mystery by Alice Feeney, whom fans all over have crowned, fittingly, the Queen of Twists. A twenty-year-old secret that has directed the lives of four women aged eighteen to eighty is on the verge of getting revealed and altering the women’s lives – for better or worse – once again.

Eighty-year-old Edith, who was consigned to a care home – against her wish – by her children, is planning to escape the place one Mother’s Day with the help of eighteen-year-old Patience, who has been working in the home for as long as Edith has been lodged there. But things do not go as planned when Patience gets fired from the job by the ill-mannered manager, and a murder is committed in the home, all on the same day. Clio, Edith’s daughter and a therapist by profession, has a strained relationship with her mother – blaming her for a misfortune that befell her twenty years ago – and is short on money to fund her care. Clio’s client on this Mother’s Day, Frankie, has an entirely different agenda than seeking therapy and flees with something belonging to the therapist when the former is distracted. Connecting the four women together – other than the old secret – is Detective Charlotte Chapman, who is investigating the murder at the care home but claims her case has two murders, three suspects, and one victim, her suspects being three out of the four women.

Feeney yet again delivers a cleverly plotted mystery with unreliable narrators, descriptions that hide more than what they reveal, and twists galore. Perspectives and timelines keep shifting every chapter, demanding the reader to concentrate hard while reading, as any lapse would confuse matters. Though Good Bad Girl is markedly less dark than the other novel by Feeney I have read, Daisy Darker, I found it equally entertaining and riveting. It takes a while initially to get into the story, but persistence pays, and it all starts to come together eventually. Feeney touches upon various issues related to mother-daughter relationships, care homes that work as God’s waiting rooms run by greedy characters, and so on, without sacrificing the pace of the narrative. All the characters have both admirable and unlikeable traits, and are impactful – particularly Edith and Detective Chapman. While the turns of events in this book may not be entirely believable, Feeney stitches all of it together masterfully, making Good Bad Girl an engrossing, diverting read.

My gratitude to Pan Macmillan for the Digital Review Copy of Good Bad Girl through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Found this a great holiday read, keeping me guessing right till the end and a break from my normal reading genre. A baby taken from a shop doorway, the heartbreak affecting the family, then skip forward 20 years to a death in a nursing home, a resident keen to leave and a young carer as an accomplice. As the book continues we discover how each person has a place in the narrative and is nicely tied up at the end.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author and publishers for an ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

I love Alice Feeney’s books – having read and adored her previous 5 books I was very excited when I received a copy of Good Bad Girl. Alice is undoubtedly the queen of twists and her latest standalone book does not disappoint.

The main theme of this story is Mothers and Daughters and is set primarily on Mothers Day. The story has four main female narrators who take the reader on an emotional journey from the opening chapter when a little baby girl is abducted to the final page.

The four women, Frankie, Cleo, Patience and Edith are all equally fascinating. Each woman is hiding a secret and the author slowly reveals the connections between them with some clever twists thrown in to keep the reader guessing throughout.

If you enjoy original and clever plotlines, strong characters, emotional themes and shocking twists then I would definitely recommend Good Bad Girl.

A clever compelling thriller. Dark secrets rise to the surface when a woman is murdered in her care home. But how does this link to the disappearance of a baby twenty years earlier? Left me gasping.

A review I read suggested you don’t spend too much time trying to figure out who is who. I should have read that review before I read the book. I did spend time trying to work out who was who and what was going on - I thought that was the idea with books. As a result I found the whole thing a bit too much.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.”

This is a stand alone book which revolves around a group of women who are all connected in some way, which becomes clearer as the book goes on.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, there were so many twists and turns I couldn’t believe I didn’t see them coming!

The story is set on Mothers Day and after the Nursing home manager, Joy is murdered, Edith goes missing and Patience, Clio and Frankie are all suspect no.1. Who killed Joy and how do these women all know one another?!

Such a good suspense thriller, keeping me on the edge of my seat!

Thank you so much netgalley and panmacmillan for the gifted digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I apologize for the late review. Life just got very busy lately.

The book is out now (published in the UK on August 3rd, Happy Belated PUB Day!)

Read this if you:

Love short chapters
Enjoy fast paced books
Want a thriller that's intriguing but not super twisty

My Thoughts:

Alice Fenney is one of my auto-buy authors so I was super excited for her newest book.

I loved the short chapters and the fact that the plotline was intriguing enough to keep me curious until the end.

The characters were pretty well built and the dynamic between them was intriguing too.

Unfortunately, I kind of saw the end coming and there weren't any big twists to surprise me.

Also, the characters weren't very likable, despite being well built, and I couldn't relate to any of them.

Despite this one not being a favorite, I'm still looking forward to what Alice Fenney writes next and I highly recommend you try her thrillers if you haven’t yet as I think she's one of the best.