The Couple on Cedar Close by Anna-Lou Weatherley @annaloulondon @bookouture #bookreview

Happy Saturday book lovers!

Super excited to share with you my review for this brilliant book! I cannot believe this is my first blog tour of the year with Bookouture! A huge thank you to Noelle for my invitation to the tour and to Anna Lou Weatherley for this intense story!💜

My Thoughts

A compulsive and fast paced bloody brilliant book!

The perfect mash up of a police procedural and a psychological thriller! I had no idea that this was the second book in the DI Daniel Riley series until I got to the end, can absolutely be read as a standalone…. this book wasn’t necessarily full of crazy twists and turns, but I loved how it dove so deeply into the psychology of these characters…. A dark domestic drama with some pretty psychotic characters….

Laurie is planning the perfect dinner for her estranged husband, convinced she can still win him back…. but as time goes by and more vodka is consumed Laurie is pretty certain that her husband Robert has stood her up… devastated and in an alcohol Hayes Laurie passes out and wakes up in the guestroom covered in blood, with no recollection of how she got there…. Robert is dead and Laurie is the number one suspect, but she can’t remember and she can’t believe she would ever kill Robert….

Daniel Riley” The detective with the kind eyes,“ is convinced that there is more to this case then meets the eyes… after interviewing Laurie, Daniel can hardly believe she could hurt a fly much less a man twice her size…. oh what a wide web of deceit over this charming Close…. I enjoyed watching the unraveling of this psychotic killers perfect plans… I appreciated how thoughtful and compassionate Daniel was in his investigation…. I also loved how they called him “governor,” I’m not even sure why exactly, but it was super cool! I think because I could only think of it in the English accent, I don’t find governors of states very cool, LOL! But I digress….

This was an addictive read that had me furiously turning the pages… I figured out who the killer was fairly early on, but there was a pretty obvious clue that I am assuming we were supposed to pick up on? I am usually the world’s worst detective, so this is why I am assuming this… this did not detract from my enjoyment of the story whatsoever! I really wanted to know how they were going to catch this person and what was motivating this person to be so extremely Cray Cray! And bravo to that ending, that was just perfection! Definitely looking forward to the next book in the series, and time permitting I will go back and read “Black Heart.”

This book will quench both your police procedural and psychological thriller thirst, absolutely recommend!🖤

🎶 Song running through my mind: I defy you to read this book and not have this Drake song going through your head:

… Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?

Say you’ll never ever leave from beside me

‘Cause I want ya, and I need ya

And I’m down for you always

KB, do you love me? Are you riding?

Say you’ll never ever leave from beside me

‘Cause I want ya, and I need ya

And I’m down for you always

-Drake 2018

*** Big thanks to Bookouture for my copy of this book ***

About the Book

One sunny August afternoon, the residents of Cedar Close throw their annual summer barbecue. Children play in the cherry-tree lined street, tables are laden with food, and the wine is flowing. For Laurie Mills, it’s her first time meeting the neighbours. And it’s the first time she discovers her husband Robert is having an affair.

Cedar Close has always been a nice place to live – a quiet suburban street where everyone looks out for one another and bad things don’t happen.

Until late one evening, when Robert Mills is found dead in his bedroom.

Downstairs, in their beautiful kitchen, his wife Laurie sits alone in the dark with her head in her hands. 

She can’t remember the last few hours, but she knows she didn’t kill Robert.

The trouble is, no-one believes her…

An utterly gripping page-turner about the dark secrets that lie behind closed doors. Perfect for fans of JP Delaney’s The Girl Before and Gone Girl, The Couple on Cedar Close will keep you reading late into the night.

Buy  Links:       

Amazon: http://geni.us/B07L4NTTQRCover

Apple Books: https://tinyurl.com/ycj3ldgd

Kobo: https://tinyurl.com/yafxggr7

Googleplay: https://tinyurl.com/y96n6zmd

 

About the Author

Anna-Lou began her career as a dancer but a moped accident in Ibiza put paid to those aspirations and so she went back to her first and one true love – writing! She re-trained as a journalist, specialising mainly in women’s interest and celebrity, becoming the Editor of J-17 and Smash Hits as well as writing for a host of women’s magazines.

 

Anna-Lou has written three Adult Fiction titles – Vengeful Wives and Wicked Wives, both published by Avon in the UK and Bookouture in the US and Canada and Pleasure Island published by Bookouture.

 

To find out more about Anna’s novels, go to https://www.facebook.com/annalouweatherleyauthor/ or follow https://twitter.com/annaloulondon on Twitter.

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Berit☀️✨