One summer. One stranger. One killer… her hometown.
Now Felicity must go back, to face the truth about what happened all those years ago.
Only she holds the answers – and they’re more shocking than anyone could imagine.
The heatwave is back. And so is the killer.
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Having not read this author previously, it was with some keenness that I began this psychological thriller. The disappearance of two girls forms the whodunnit, written from two perspectives sixteen years apart. The story unfolds slowly and the connection is not initially apparent. A readable enough tale, with some interesting characters who aren’t all likeable. A slow burn, but the ending is full of surprises, yet only a three-star rating.
4.5
This is the first book that I’ve read by this author and I was really glad I picked up this book because I wasn’t disappointed at all and neither will you be,I really enjoyed it. This book will draw you in and keep hold of your attention until the very end and you won’t be able to put it down.
Felicity lives with her children and husband and when another girl goes missing she gets very worried.
Felicity goes back to the town that she left years ago and after another young girl goes missing she feels drawn back to the place she thought she’d escaped. Only she hasn’t really moved on not properly.
Felicity and Jasmine were best friends when they were younger. Jasmine seemed like she has a great life and her parents are extremely caring. They open their doors to a lodger Tim but what Jasmine’s parents don’t see is that he makes there daughter feel quite nervous.
When Felicity rushes back to where she grew up and she has to become a detective herself to try and figure out what happened. Then and now!
Can you #SurvivetheHeatwave
(NO SPOILERS).
I really enjoyed reading this book and I absolutely did not see that ending coming at all.
This book has a pack full of twists and turns and shockers and secrets and lies. This book you won’t be able to out down for a second without picking it back up to find out what happens.
This book is one crime thriller everyone should read.
This book goes back and forth between the past and Present and the here and now to tell the story and to help the reader understand what happened, Felicity tells us in the present while Jasmine is in the past.This book is quite intense and will keep you desperate for more.
This book has a prologue which I love because I feel like it always adds that something extra special to the story too.
I will definitely recommend this book to everyone when it gets released it’s awesome.
“The Heatwave” is written by the very popular author Katerina Diamond and is a stand-alone thriller set within a dual timeline. Although most recent reviewers of this book praise it highly, I’m afraid I must be the loner on this one, as for me it just didn’t work.
“One summer. One stranger. One killer…Two bad things happened that summer: A stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared”
Basically that is it. ‘Flick’ returns to her hometown after sixteen years when she discovers a second girl has gone missing. The ‘now’ part of the story involving Flick returning home was a non starter for me and it was literally the last ten per cent of the book that we are privy to why she had to return home. She’s flawed, cliched and totally unrealistic and a character I just couldn’t relate to at all. I did however enjoy the ‘then’ story and was interested in what happened all those years ago but the denouement and revelation of the killer for me was just too far fetched and utterly implausible.
A few inconsistencies for me including a brown car and the sound it made that Flick recognised after sixteen years, spoilt it for me. I’m sure readers who love slow burn stories with flawed characters will like “The Heatwave” and although I would read more by this author again I can’t give this book more than 2.5 stars.
2.5 stars
Thank you to Netgalley, Avon Books UK and the Author Katerina Diamond for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
OH MY GOSH! All I can say is WOW! What an awesome book.
This book is the epitome of a psychological thriller.
Never ending twists and turns.
My first read by this Author and certainly won’t be my last!