Book Synopsis:
From the international number one bestseller comes the most clever and gripping thriller of 2019
It’s June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.
Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Adam’s reappearance poses more questions than answers. The past is a tangled web of deceit.
And, as tension builds, it’s apparent somebody has planned murderous revenge for the events of ten years ago.
Six Wicked Reasons is published on the 16th January 2020 in ebook and hardback. You can purchase your copy using the link below.
My Review:
I’ve loved all of this author’s previous books so it’s always very exciting to get to read a new book from her. This was another fabulous, intriguing read which I thoroughly enjoyed.
This book provides an interesting look into the life of a big Irish family which was fascinating to read about. The reader slowly gets to know each of the six siblings and the father as the story develops. We learn more about their lives, especially their past which also lets us know more about the grievances they have which was very interesting.
Frazer is a really horrible person who I loved to hate and was actually very glad had met such a sticky end. Throughout the book we learn of the nasty things he’s done to his children and his wife which gives any one of them reason to kill him. I think it would be fair to say that he’s caused most of his children’s problems.
The setting of this book was very clever and I think helped add to the tension throughout the book. The boat and it’s inaccessibility gave the story a bit of a classic crime story feel to it as it had to be one of the people. As the reader has a fly on the wall view of everything I felt very involved in the story almost as if I had actually been there too.
This book does start off slow but slowly builds as we discover more about the families history and their relationship with each other. Each of the characters have reasons to want to kill their father and I enjoyed trying to unravel everything to work out who might have done it. The ending was brilliant and I thought a very clever way to end everything.
Huge thanks to Quercus for my copy of this book via Netgalley and to Milly Reid for inviting me onto the blog tour.
About The Author:
Jo Spain’s first novel, top ten bestseller With our Blessing, was one of seven finalists in the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition. It was named as an Irish Times crime fiction book of the year by Declan Burke. Beneath the Surface (2016) and Sleeping Beauties (2017), the second and third in the DI Tom Reynolds series followed, to further critical acclaim. Her standalone thriller, The Confession, released in January 2018, became a number one bestseller and sold in multiple territories. Jo is releasing the fourth Tom Reynolds, The Darkest Place, in 2018 and a new standalone Dirty Little Secrets in 2019.
Jo also writes for TV and is the co-writer of new series Taken Down.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Jo lives in Dublin with her husband and their four young children. Jo previously worked as a policy advisor in the Irish parliament and as vice-chair of the business body InterTrade Ireland.
Jo’s debut novel is set against a background of the infamous Irish Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby homes. The author’s own father was born in one such home in Dublin and the novel’s backdrop was constructed based on the in-depth research she undertook while attempting to trace her family roots.
Her favourite writers include Pierre LeMaitre, Fred Vargas, Louise Penny, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves, B.A. Paris, Elizabeth Haynes and Agatha Christie.
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