#BlogTour #AudioBookReview ‘Little Whispers’ by K.L Slater

I am so thrilled to be able to bring you my review of the fabulous new Audible original, ‘Little Whispers’ by thriller writer extraordinaire, K.L Slater. A huge thank you to Amber at Midas PR for inviting me on the tour-don’t forget to check out the lovely bloggers who will be spreading the word on this read throughout the week!

About the book…

You shared a secret with the wrong person.

Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.

Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to.

Tanya takes Janey under her wing and her teenage daughter, Angel, is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.

But then everything changes….

In a weak moment over a bottle of wine, Janey finds herself telling Tanya her most shocking secret. Why wouldn’t she trust her new friend?

The following day, Janey sees Angel, with a man old enough to be her father, pushing someone into a car. The next day a body is found, and police appeal for witnesses – and share a picture of the same car….

When Janey tells Tanya she is going to the police, Tanya turns threatening. She’ll stop at nothing to defend Angel, even if her daughter is guilty. If Janey says anything, Tanya will make sure that her dark secret gets out. Janey faces an impossible choice. Stay quiet about what she saw that terrible day or speak up and destroy the family she has worked so hard to protect….

From million-copy best seller K.L. Slater comes this twisty and absolutely gripping roller-coaster ride of a listen. Fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will be totally hooked on Little Whispers.

I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook,the narrator,Lucy Price-Lewis, takes on all the roles yet manages to make each person distinct . This sounds obvious, yet in some audiobooks I have found, especially when it comes to conveying children’s voices, that they are at worst annoying, at best a shrill interruption in the narrative.

Janey’s story is paced and multi-faceted, we have to trust her voice as a narrator. From the beginning it is clear that she has social climbing tendencies and lacks the means to do so-the giving up of her career as a teaching assistant to care for her elderly mother was not something she did easily, nor was it without its challenges. And the final insult is a deathbed secret that weighs Janey down. Her marriage is under strain from too much debt and distance growing between her and husband Isaac. Son Rowan is not faring well at the local Academy-Academy usually being short hand for a failing school that is under special measures, or near as damn it.

Her mother’s death has somehow freed her, and with an offer from Isaac’s work to relocate, fund the moving costs and support the family, a clean slate looks on  the cards, And upwardly mobile reboot to Buckingham Cresent, for a suspiciously low priced house,where the last owners stayed for a year , made loads of rennovations then disappeared would have had all my alarm bells ringing.

However, closeness to boutique artisanal bakeries and a well performing school turn Janey’s head. The well to do residents of the Cresent aren’t always what they appear, however, and thanks to a friendship which springs from a random act of kindness, Janey reveals her secret to Alpha Mum/Stepford wife Tanya. Oops. Because before long Janey has seen something that she shouldn’t have and cannot go to the police with . If she does, Tanya will reveal all….

This emotional blackmail and to and fro-ing between the women takes dark and unexpected turns as the fish out of water takes on the most established wife and mother, the Cresent Queen Bee. Who will come out on top and what price is justice when you have the worst thing in the world dangled over your head?

Skillfully plotted and thrilling as the tangled web winds every closer around the women, dragging onlookers with them, this is the work of an author at the top of her game.

About the author…

Kim is the million-copy bestselling author of seven psychological crime thrillers. Her eighth thriller,‘Finding Grace’, was  published 14th February 2019 and is available wherever good books are sold!

Kim’s titles are also published in paperback by Sphere in the UK and Grand Central in the USA.

For many years, Kim sent her work out to literary agents and collected an impressive stack of rejection slips. At the age of 40 she went back to Nottingham Trent University and now has an MA in Creative Writing.

Before graduating in 2012, she gained literary agent representation and a book deal. As Kim says, ‘it was a fairytale … at the end of a very long road!’

Kim is a full-time writer. She has one daughter, two stepsons and lives with her husband in Nottingham and Yorkshire

Twitter @KimLSLater @AudibleUK @midaspr

Links-https://klslaterauthor.com/