When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt.
Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be embraced by a tightknit group of female neighbours, who invite her to join their book club.
However, the town is not as sleepy as she thinks.
And her ex-boyfriend is not ready to let her go.
Alan Gorevan is an award-winning writer and intellectual property attorney. He lives in Dublin.
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My thoughts: this was a fun read, full of terrible deeds and not really about a book club at all, although if Louise hadn’t got the members together in the first place, more of them might have survived the events that this blackly comic murder fest entails.
Izzy has run to her aunt’s house, that she recently inherited, to get away from her controlling and angry boyfriend, Adam. Unfortunately he’s not willing to let her go. Louise is a neighbour who invites Izzy to join the book club meeting at her house, where Kate, Tess, Dee and Melanie are all waiting to discuss Sherlock Holmes.
The next morning, by text, they’re informed that Kate is dead. Was it her husband? A jealous lover? Or was it someone at the book club? As events spiral and more violence breaks out, it seems that book club isn’t a cosy safe place, but a hotbed of murder and insanity.
Izzy, her new friend Dylan and the other members are all at risk, and the various husbands and boyfriends have their own unhinged relationships too – the war between Louise’s husband Robert and Melanie’s Alan over the dog shitting in the garden gets spectacularly crazy.
Nothing in supposedly quiet Dún Laoghaire (which I now know how to pronounce, thank you!) where Izzy thought she might find some peace is as it seems when these neighbours go to war!
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
ramblingmads 
Sounds like great fun!
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Thank you so much for taking part in the tour x
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