#BlogTour ‘The Catch’ by T.M Logan

About the book…

From the Sunday Times and Richard and Judy Book Club author of THE HOLIDAY, comes an unmissable new thriller.

He is not what he seems . . .

Ed is delighted to meet his twenty-three year old daughter’s fiancé for the first time. Abbie is head-over-heels in love with her new man. Smart, successful and handsome, Ryan appears to be the perfect future son-in-law.

There’s just one problem. There’s something off about Ryan. Something hidden in the shadows behind his eyes. And it seems that only Ed can see it.

Terrified that his daughter is being drawn in by a psychopath, Ed sets out to uncover her fiancé’s dark past – while keeping his own concealed. But no-one believes him. And the more he digs, the more he alienates her and the rest of the family who are convinced that Ryan is ‘the one’.

Ed knows different. For reasons of his own, he knows a monster when he sees one…

Hugest thanks to the inimitable Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers and Zaffre Books for the blogtour invite and my gifted ebook copy of ‘The Catch’, which is out in ebook,paperback and audiobook formats.

From the very title, your curiousity is piqued-Abbie’s grandmother refers to her suitor, Ryan, as ‘a catch’ and …he seems too good to be true, what’s the catch? It’s as if he has been ordered from the perfect boyfriend catalogue. He says the right things, shows respect and love towards Abbie and yet…he is pinging the danger warnings in Ed’s mind.

At the start of the book, when first an engagement and then a wedding is announced in quick succession, the plot developments come thick and fast as , like Ed and wife Claire, we get whiplash from how quickly Ryan is moving. Ostensibly this is because Claire’s mother, Joyce, is facing a life limiting cancer diagnosis which makes a logical sense to marry sooner, rather than later and risk Joyce not being able to attend, and yet…. it still seems a little off.

Ed could be seen as just an over protective father, and yes, he has form in this area, but which of the men really has Abbie’s best interests at heart?

Is it decorated Army vet and first class psychology major Ryan, who dotes on her , or Ed, whose only child’s happiness is more important to him than oxygen?

T.M Logan cleverly plays into the thriller element of his bound-to-be-a-summer-sensation by keeping the reader on edge as to what is seen and what is perceived. You doubt yourself as narrators switch places, third and first person intermingle and the past and present collide. How far would you go as a parent to protect and defend your child-even when they are a grownup?

The sinister atmosphere mounts towards a spine tingling denouement in the Peak District, and it definitely is the type of book you pick up and race through to the final pages. The slight gripe I personally had with it, was the side lining of a major character and the very ending. It didn’t seem to tonally fit with what had come before and it was a bit unsatisfying, but even saying that, this is just my opinion. Otherwise, I really enjoyed being taken on this journey through loss, grief, paranoia and family loyalties being tested to the limit.

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.

Links-   https://www.tmlogan.com/

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