What if someone wanted to ruin your life?Rachel Stone’s world was destroyed by a stalker, Alan Griffin. After he went to prison, she rebuilt her life.Now she has a three-year-old daughter and is in a new relationship. But someone is stalking her again. Her phone, her emails and her social media are hacked.Rachel believes it’s Griffin, out of prison and looking for revenge. She needs to find him … looking for revenge. She needs to find him and make him leave her alone. But as Rachel is drawn into a hunt, she realises that something even more horrific is happening – something that will make her confront the childhood that has lingered inside her like a ghost, and will force her to face the truth about her new life.
Is Griffin the one ruining her life? Or is someone far more dangerous responsible?
What everyone is saying about The Regret:
‘After having finished reading ‘The Regret’, I can think of only one word to describe the book ’ brilliant’… right up there on my list of top 10 reads of 2019’ – Ginger Book Geek
‘OUTSTANDING! That’s the short review/version and the word that came to my mind as I read the last word of this terrifyingly brilliant book!’ – ‘Book Mark’ FB Group
‘I am so impressed with this novel. Definitely a contender for my book of the year’ – Keri Beevis (author of Dead Letter Day and The Darkness Beneath)
The Regret is a gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller which will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you are a fan of authors like Rachel Abbott, Cara Hunter and C.L. Taylor, you’ll love this unmissable crime thriller.
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A great psychological thriller. The friendships in this book really shine and so does the mending of a broken family bond. Not an easy read in parts, but a good and memorable one. Very well written.
Welcome back, my Fellow Book Dragons, to another Mystery Monday…I hope you are not prone to needing a night light after reading creepy mysteries, if so, our Gem this evening may have you checking your bulb..you won’t want it going out this evening. Let me take this Gem out for you to look at..looks harmless doesn’t it? Sort of dusty, that odd green, the color of an old cell phone sim card. Even looks a bit cracked. Don’t let it fool you. It’s quite dangerous I assure you. Don’t take your eyes off it for a second, don’t get comfortable with it, just put it back in the little jewel box and let’s lock it back up. There, now I can tell you all about it.
This is Gem Maker Dan Malakin’s “The Regret”. This is the tale of a game. Not a nice game.. this game is meant to hurt..this game is not catch and release, this is a game of catch and kill. Spear Phishing, it’s called. And it can happen to anyone..anyone with an email account, especially on a cellphone or mobile, if you will. That piece of equipment nearly all of us carry and glance at periodically all day long. Here and there. Some of us are slaves to the pings, vibes, tinkles, rings, beeps, flashes. We may not even really look at it, just glance and think we can get to it later.
This is the story Rachel. Rachel is your average single mum. She has a three year old named Lily. She works as a nurse. She has a beau. She is harried and lives paycheck to paycheck. She has never been left a million by some maiden aunt. She has survived and battles anorexia. She has survived being stalked and abused on the Dark Web while a teen. She doesn’t have her life together, but she’s trying. And then one day, an email appears on her phone, from HR telling her there is an issue with payroll and she needs to reply. That’s all, one simple email.
And that is when everything starts to go bad. Very, very bad. This is the creepiest book I have read in ages. Dan Malakin just gave Shirley Jackson a run for her money. I loved this book, I had to put it down from time to time because it felt like someone was either looking over my shoulder or staring at me. I shut the draperies. The last time I felt like this was when I read “The Haunting of Hill House”. The topics in this book are hard to read through at times, but they are timely. They are handled with class: human trafficking, the Dark Web, anorexia, identity theft and more. Malakin doesn’t sugar coat anything and admits in the acknowledgements there were times he thought about quitting. Thank God he did not. This book is phenomenal.
If you want a book to read for a long, dark, cold winter’s eve, this is it. “The Regret” is perfect for the crime fiction, horror, thriller or psychological suspense lover. It is available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited for free now or in paperback for a very reasonable price. Do yourself a favor and get it today. I’m going to keep my copy and re-read it later this winter and probably again next Halloween. But then, I don’t need to sleep with the lights on…but I will probably never take my email lightly again, either.
Until tomorrow, I remain, your humble Book Dragon, Drakon T. Longwitten
I received a copy of this from the author in exchange for an honest review.
This is a fast-paced read with plenty of twist that will have you suspecting almost every character who appears!
The protagonist, Rachel, has been battling anorexia for years, and it was sometimes hard reading the thoughts going through her head. But it was written well written, in a sensitive way that made you understand what she was going through.
The story deals with some tough subjects, not least how easy it is for someone to lose their identity, indeed their whole life, from being hacked. An uncomfortable notion that will hopefully encourage people to be more careful!
This is a great psychological thriller that kept me turning the pages, with a nail-biting ending. Highly recommend!