The Book Club- C.J Cooper-psychological thriller 

Alice has moved into a village and finds that as in many,everyone knows everyone else

and many things about them- there are really no such things as secrets… until there are. Lucy

has had an affair with her boss which led to leaving her job. Tom has a lovely dog, until it

meets Alice and then turns rather nasty towards her, something it has never ever done with

anyone else before. We know that Alice knows more than she is letting on and she befriends

a small group and has the idea of a book club to get them all together and we know from

the beginning that Alice is the one to look out for- quite why is another matter. This is

written rather differently to other psychological thrillers that I have come across (my

favourite genre)  as there is perhaps a sense of mischief afoot but not quite the palpable

tension that you get with other books in this realm. A very descriptive book, the pace

then picked up at around 50% of the way through and became much more like a

psychological thriller rather than the domestic noir it began as. I did see that someone

had described this as a “marmite” book and looking at other reviews reflects this.

I'm going to plump halfway (just as I do with marmite!).  An interesting premise, just

a shame the first half didn’t have the pace and tension of the second. 

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