#BlogTour-‘The Holiday’ by T.M Logan

About the book…

Thanks to Zaffre Publishing and Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for my paperback copy of ‘The Holiday’ by T.M Logan for the accompanying blogtour. This fabulous holiday read-ALL the puns intended-is out now in paperback

For fans of Harlan Coben and Shari Lapena, and from the bestselling author of ‘Lies’ take a holiday you won’t forget . . .

Seven days.

Three families.

One killer.

It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Provence.

But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family.

But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. Because someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden

Following a haunting prologue which gets your ‘5 star read’ antennae twitching, T.M Logan sets out his stall of charcters and proceeds to have an absolute blast ramping up the tension and psychological thrillers to heatwave-esquetemperatures.

Is it hot in here or is this plot on fire?

As a reader, you start this book with a sense of envy, 4 women have managed to stay friends since university -no mean feat!_and are celebrating their 40th birthdays at a privately hired villa in Provence. Their children go to the same schools, the husbands don’t really know each other but are prepared to get along and give it their best. The villa sounds AMAZING. There’s just the incredibly dangerous cliff face at the end of the property which proves lethal to one of the party before the holiday is over…

A holiday is meant to be a break from reality, a step away from the norm, a chance to relax and unwind but when you have worked as hard as these adults have, they quickly realise that far from being able to leave their troubles behind, they have bought all of them alongside thier flip flops and created a pressure cooker which is about to explode.

The discovery of hidden texts on husband, Sean’s phone sends Kate into an absolute spin. Her teen, Lucy, is struggling to cope with something but the more Kate asks, the more Lucy withdraws.Younger child, Daniel, fits in nowhere, being too old for Odette and too young for the teens.But being at a loose end leads him into dangerous situations…

Jennifer, the helicopter mum, is even more so after discovering the sheer drop of the cliff and is intent on protecting her two teens from this…her husband,Alistair, a therapist, is not only using his sons as a social experiment, he appears to be paying way too much attention to another female in the party…and analysing everyone and everything that they say.

Rowan and Russ clash constantly over his need to be on holiday (i.e drink and drink and drink)whilst Rowan struggles with a child she can barely control thanks to being indulged by her nanny-5 year old Odette is an absolute delight as a result!

Late arrival,Izzy, has grown up  with Sean in Ireland, they have a long history, and is bursting with news of her own, but will it be something that everyone wants to hear?

It’s a powder keg of emotion and circumstance and someone is about to light the fuse…

By switching between the first person thoughts of Kate, then third person narratives of the other guests, T.M Logan skillfully manipulates the reader into sympathy and collusion with Kate whilst giving us the chance to look for clues in  how the other guests are behaving. With some jaw dropping moments, cliff hanger (literally!) chapters and a keen eye for human behaviour, T.M Logan has done it again-he has created a suspense filled novel, a cautionary tale about keeping secrets and a very modern thriller for the social media age.

My advice?

Never holdiay with friends close to a cliff edge.

Pack ‘The Holiday’ alongside your suntan lotion.

This is because once you start reading,you’ll find it hard to stop -exposure to the plot may cause sunburn so at least factor 50 is recommend if you are reading this on a beach/at the poolside.

Summer reading doesn;t come much better than this!

About the author…

Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His debut thriller LIES was one of Amazon UK’s biggest ebooks of 2017, selling 350,000 copies and gathering more than 1,400 5-star reviews.

Together with his second standalone thriller, ’29 Seconds’ (2018), his books are now published in a dozen countries around the world including the USA, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and the Netherlands.

Tim lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a cabin at the bottom of his garden.

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