Interesting story with.some interesting characters. Kept my attention right until the end but ultimately I was a little disappointed.

There was an imbalance in what we were told about the main players. We get to know plenty about Greg, but not so much about his mum (who seems to be a bit too organised and professional to be "just a mom", whereas we never really get to understand Aliyah but we know all about her father.

That said, Hunted is pacy and relevant, and there's nothing in the writing that would disappoint most people, so I'd recommend.

I enjoyed this book but found it a bit slow going at times. I couldn’t warm to any of the characters except Sajid who I felt so much empathy with. The plot was complex and there was lots of tension and thrilling scenes. Parts of it seemed improbable and I was disappointed with the ending, but overall it was a good read. Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc.

This book is a real fast paced thriller. The parents of 2 radicalised children are racing against the clock (and the FBI) to try and get to their children before they do anything they can't come back from.

I found myself saying 'just one more chapter' as the story unraveled at such a fast rate you don't want to stop reading. I did find the character of Shreya frustrating, it seemed like she went about everything in the most difficult way. But then I guess the story would be shorter if she didn't.

I deducted 1 point because I felt the ending was much too brief, it needed one more chapter. It felt very abrupt.

This book concerns terrorism and radicalisation of young people. Greg and Aliyah have been drawn into a world of suicide bombers, except Greg didn't really think his bombs would be used to kill people or his friends. Their parents Carrie and Sajid travel to the States to find them - but Sajid has a price on his head as a suspected terrorist himself, by association with his wilful daughter. Shreya is the FBI agent determined to stop any more bombings.

Sadly I found it impossible to identify or sympathise with any of the characters. Shreya is just ineffective, inarticulate and frustratingly dense and Aliyah is self-willed, deluded and lacking any moral compass. None of them became three dimensional for me. The only one I really had sympathy with was Sajid - his family ripped apart as he tried to do the right thing.

I didn't particularly enjoy the read, the subject matter or the fact I felt I was standing outside the action - the characters did not come alive on the pages or allow me to understand them. Even the sections that should have been exciting, like evading the police, just felt lacklustre.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Written mainly from the point of view of three protagonists, this is a breathtaking thriller that I couldn't put down. A bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall, seemingly planted by a young Muslim girl. In London, Sajid is brought in for questioning; his daughter was seen with the bomber coming into the States. But Sajid believes she is in Japan. When it's proved she isn't, he flies off to the US to try to prevent her from doing harm. Meanwhile an FBI agent is also looking for her and closing in fast.

This is a fantastic read. Fast moving with sympathetic characters, I loved it. It's not just a thriller but also explores important issues like racism. I'd never read any of Abir Mukherjee's books before this one but I'm certainly going to look out for them now. Highly recommended. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

This is the first book I’ve read by author and it was quite a page turner!! Hunted follows two parents and Carrie, who following a suicide bombing in a shopping mall, embark on a desperate search across America for their children.
An explosive and highly recommended read for fans of intense and unpredictable thrillers.

I did wonder if a novel about chasing two kids across America was enough substance for a whole novel.
I stand firmly corrected.
Very fast paced and engaging throughout, I thoroughly enjoyed this cat and cat and mouse plot and felt like it was an excellent use of my time.
Many thanks.

Loved this standalone by Amir Mukherjee. It starts with an explosion in an LA shopping centre and an english woman appears to have planted the bomb.
The plot has many twists and turns spreading across countries, cults, racism, extremism and two parents that will do anything to stop their children getting further involved.

Hunted is a pacey, suspenseful and exciting thriller. However, the bottom line is that, however well written, it is essentially a routine political conspiracy tale with which we are familiar from myriad books, movies and television series. A group of renegade ex-military personnel, operating inside the security structures of the US government, is intent on disrupting the democratic process. Some improbable coincidences and a lack of anything truly innovative were the most disappointing aspects of an otherwise competent addition to the genre.

A breathlessly paced, twisty story, both gripping and unexpectedly moving. A frighteningly plausible political backdrop to the story as well. Because there are so many characters, I did feel some of them were slightly underdeveloped, but this was great fun and very quick to read.

This is the first book I’ve read by author Abir Mukherjee and this one was pretty good! A well written account of prejudice, brutality and culture all interwoven with tension and thrills. Although my interest was piqued I felt as if it took a long time to get any answers, the novelty of keeping me in suspense was getting old and I just wanted enough to get me thinking, to try to figure out what was going to happen next and get me to that point of not just wanting to know the truth but needing to find out the truth instead I was just wanting to get to the end.

The ending felt a bit rushed and through this it felt like we were given half-hearted answers to those big burning questions of who were these people and why was this happening, ending in a way that wasn’t completely shocking and seemed to lack that omg moment I was hoping for.

Overall I enjoyed the book it was fun and full of suspense but just fell short in a few aspects for me so a solid 3 stars 🌟

You can’t save your kids, but can you stop them?

When a bomb is detonated in a busy LA Shopping Mall just a short time before the US Presidential elections, FBI Agent Shreya Mistry finds herself thrown in to the carnage and is determined to find the guilty culprits. A young female Muslim girl seemingly behind the attack, but who is she working with and why? Shreya is sucked in to the hunt, and having been taken off the case, she ignores her boss and goes on a hunt of her own.

Meanwhile, in London, airport worker Sajid Khan’s world is turned upside down when armed police storm Heathrow airport - his daughter Aliyah is reported to be in the USA, having travelled there with the suicide bomber. Sajid is in denial - his daughter is in Japan having travelled there on a ticket he had purchased for her. Or did she? When an American woman Carrie shows up to his house she has some big claims - his daughter is with her son Greg, they are both missing and she knows where they are. He has no choice, he needs to go and find his daughter and bring her home before the authorities catch up with her. No matter what the cost, and despite the risk to his own life can be and Carrie find their children and put an end to this before any other attacks happen?


This was the first book I have read by Abir, and it didn’t disappoint! I was hooked from the first line to the last, it was right in to the story from page one! I was really invested in the characters, I really enjoyed seeing how the different strands of each part of the story came together in the end with a fantastic ending! Absolutely brilliant! The story was well plotted, and you could tell the author put a lot of research in to bring everything together to make the story real. I felt like I was watching it play out like a film over the pages! The writing style was very fluid and it was easy to keep up with the story. Brilliant characters, by the end I felt as a reader I got to know them. I didn’t see the twist coming either!

One of the best books I’ve ever read! Brilliant!

Thank you Abir and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in return for my honest review. Easy 5 ⭐️from me!

I was gripped by the story from the start and thought the pacing was excellent all the way through to the climax. It’s got plenty of action and excitement throughout and some interesting and sympathetic characters, like the FBI agent Shreya and the parents, Carrie and Sajid, as they hunt for their children across America.
There’s plenty of twists especially towards the dramatic ending that keep you guessing as to what’s going to happen. Well worth a read.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher Harvill Secker for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Wow, what a page turning relentlessly turbulent ride.
My first by this author, it won’t be my last.

Highly recommend 5stars

Hunted by Abir Mukherjee is the first book from the author that I have read, and it won’t be my last. This is a fantastic fast-paced thriller that will have you hooked to the last page.
When a bomb goes off in a US shopping mall before the Presidential Elections. Your first thought is that it is a suicide bomber belonging to a radical group. But when FBI agent Shreya Mistry is looks at the CCTV footage of what happened that day. She knows something is not right.
In London Sajid Khan is visited by Armed Police, not only do they think that he has something to do with the bombing in the US but his daughter instead of going to Japan where she told her father she was going. She joined the cause of the group what bombed the mall. Is she responsible for all of them deaths?
This is not only a fast-paced political thriller but about terrorism and racism, but prejudice because you are a certain colour and the differences of how the two countries deal with that. Because of that not only did I enjoy this for the thriller element, which I couldn’t put down. But I found it to be also a quite thought provoking read. 5 stars from me

Thank you NetGalley, author and publisher for the free pre published eBook to review, this is my unbiased review.
The author Abir Mukherjee has several books under his belt, this is my first review by this author, so here goes. Born in the UK with a successful series set in the Raj era of India; Hunted is set across the UK and the US with a stand alone story involving two parents with adult children possibly part of a terrorist plot to bomb in the US. Racing across the US to keep ahead of the authorities and locating their family is essentially the plot. Constant tension oozes on every page, tension rarely eases. No breaks to catch your breath, often in cinema films we get a tension breaking joke or down time - but boy no breaks in this story. even roller coasters you get ups and downs. So have a cuppa to make your own breaks you will need it.

A refreshingly non cliched, well researched and utterly plausible read, Hunted combines the pace of a thriller with the depth of a well researched piece of literary fiction.

Emotionally and physically draining! I felt the author had lived through every moment of this story taking me along with him, causing me to hold my breath at the end of each chapter! Shreya, the FBI Agent whose hunches may or may not be her downfall, Sajid who doesn’t want to lose another daughter, Greg, whose love for his fellow terrorist Alijah, could be his downfall and Corrie his mother, who just wants to save her boy from making the same mistakes as she made in her past! All these characters leap out from the pages; their fears, their passions, their naivety, their bravery, their sheer endurance unite them on their journey towards a breathtaking conclusion! Brilliant!

One word…..relentless!

Read this ARC in a couple of sittings and just when I’d caught my breath from one thrilling part, it hurtles straight into the next!

Abir is a new author to me - but after this rollercoaster of a ride, I’m going to search out the rest of the back catalogue.

No spoilers here - but it started in dramatic fashion and didn’t let up till the very end which finished as it started.

Very enjoyable - here’s to the next one!

I am an enormous fan of Abir Mukherjee's Wyndham and Banerjee series of historic murder mysteries, so I recognised his name and jumped at the chance to get Hunted.

That said, if I hadn't KNOWN it was the same writer, I would not have BELIEVED it was the same writer.

It's the biggest change of direction that I've seen since Jhumpa Lahiri announced she was giving up writing about India and only going to write about Italy.

Argghhhhh

That said, Hunted is an entirely competent and intriguing contemporary mystery, combining very pertinent themes around US elections, terrorism, political dissatisfaction, and, perhaps strongest of all, the drive of parents to protect their children.

When a young Muslim girl blows up a shopping arcade in America, it's easy for the authorities to jump to the conclusion that it's an act of Islamic terror. But is it? If it is, why does she appear to be trying to run away and looking so scared. FBI agent, Shreya, is not convinced that everything is as it seems, but her FBI and police colleagues don't want to listen.

I never had a problem with Mukherjee writing as a 1920s Englishman. I bought the character of Sam Wyndham 100%. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the same about his attempt to write as an American-born Sikh woman FBI agent. This is the second book I've read already this year in which the story has been great, but the female protagonist written by a man just doesn't quite hit the mark.

The book will keep you guessing to the end. It has plenty of twists and turns and it's well crafted. My only reservation would be that so many authors are writing books that are a lot like this one. Mukherjee is the only writer I know who can do Wyndham and Mukherjee. I fear that hundreds of writers can 'do' Shreya Singh.