3 stars – i thought this was really strong in the beginning and it definitely hooked me for a while! overall though i wasn't a huge fan of the dual POV, since it didn't seem to add much to explain the antagonist's motivations in the end

The Girls on Chalk Hill (Detective Lexi Bennett Book 1) by Alison Belsham
Narrated by Sofia Zervudachi
Publisher: Bookouture Audio
Genre: General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers
Expected Publication Date: June 26, 2023

The Girls on Chalk Hill is the first book in the Detective Lexi Bennett series by Alison Belsham. This is the first book I've read by the author and I am hooked!

This was a fast paced mystery with fascinating characters and wonderful twists and turns. I could not stop reading this one because I had to know how things would work out!

I highly recommend this book because I absolutely loved it!!!

The narration by Sofia Zervudachi was wonderful! I loved how she brought the story to life!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

First, let me thank Bookature Audio and Netgally for allowing me an advanced copy of this excellent police procedural story.
All opinions given are voluntary and my own.
Aside from The 4MK series, I've never liked these kinds of books, but this one reaches out and grabs you from the first chapter, getting better and keeping you engaged till the last page.

The thing I love in these types of books is the point of view from the villain.
This makes it all the more intense and creepy, which keeps you reading, wanting to know what is going to happen!

I loved the book, and since it's the first in the series , it's a great start.
I can't wait for the next installment.

The Girls on Chalk Hill by Alison Belsham

This is the first book in the Detective Lexi Bennett series, DI Bennett has come home to work in her hometown after working abroad in the United States with the FBI. Her first day back, before she even meets her new team, she goes for a run and stumbles upon two dead teenage girls. The girls, who look identical are dressed up as princesses and their throats cuts.
The two females are identified as Lucy and Eden, two sisters of a triplet set and the third sister, Paige, is still missing. This creates panic in the team, but mostly for Lexi, who begins to relieve the nightmare that happened to her and her sisters so many years prior.
Lexi herself is part of a triplet set and her and her sisters were kidnapped seventeen years prior. She and her sister Amber escaped, but her sister Rose was never seen again. Lexi has been haunted by the decisions she and Amber made the night they escaped ever since and has been on a quest to seek answers.

Lexi's past collides with the present and she needs to race for time to try to save Paige's life before she falls for the same fate as her other two sisters. This story was good from start to finish I was fully in for the ride, and I personally like female detectives. The story reminded me of another author who I love and read every book in the series is Robert Dugoni's Tracy Crosswhite series. If you like that series, you will definitely like this one. I loved the writing and the pacing of the story it kept you engaged from start to finish.

The book was narrated by Sofia Zervudachi who did a such a great job bringing Lexi to life and the other characters. It was easy to listen to and her voice kept me going while I enjoyed this five-star read. I cannot wait to the next book in the series comes out to see what Lexi is up to next.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookcuture Audio for a free audio copy of The Girls On Chalk Hill for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

This was a wild ride and I was totally here for it! Once again I have a bad-ass woman taking charge and getting shit done, even when she's still a little damaged from what happened to her in the past. I can't wait for the next DI Lexi Bennett to come out so that we can see where her career takes her to and the repairing of her relationship with her sister!

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Thank you to Netgalley, the publishing house and the author for the opportunity to listen to a complimentary copy of this book in return for a review based upon my honest opinion.

This is the first book in e new series, the Lexi Bennett series, I will definitley be reading or listening to the follow-up books in this series. I found Lexi a great character, I was interested in where her story might lead. Lexi is a detective who has moved home from the US to take a job as a DI. On her first day before wiork starts, she fins two identical girls dead on Chalk hill, where she is running. When they give the notification of death, they discover that the girls were not twins, but triplets and It quickly becomes apparent that Lexi knows this killer all too well, Lexi and her triplet sisters were abducted when they were girls but only two of them made it home. Is it the same killer and can Lexi and her team find him before the third triplet is killed.

The pace of this book was great, lots of twists and turns. I really enjoyed the narrator, her tone and cadene was perfect for this book.

This is the first book in a new Detective Lexi Bennett series. I loved listening to this book, the story is gripping, intense with a great plot. Lexi is out running when she finds two bodies on her first day back in her new job. Lexi was 17 when she and her sisters were abducted and it’s all very familiar to her.

Lexi was a great character and can’t wait for the next book. You learned what happened back 17 years and now her urgency to find the killer. The book was well described and fast paced.

The narrator is brilliant, her voice changes well and you can hear the different characters well. I particularly liked the killers voice, she did that so well. The chapters was announced well and was really easy to follow.

Gripping, intense mystery, detective book.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

They lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them clutches a red rose. They could be sleeping, but frost shines on the lashes of their wide blue eyes, frozen open forever…

Detective Lexi Bennett is devastated when she finds the two teenagers lying side by side on the quiet green hillside, their throats cut. Convinced this is no ordinary killer, she vows to draw on all her profiling experience to find justice for these beautiful girls who will never have the chance to grow up.

This is an excellent story, brilliantly narrated and paced. It’s perfect as an audiobook as the story holds you until the end. The characters are well described and become real. The pacing is just right which makes for a great listen.

Absolutely gripping and a great start to what I imagine is going to be an excellent new detective series and with a narrator that absolutely nailed it!

Excellent story, gripping plot, brilliant characters, perfect setting, a pace that is spot on with oodles of tension and a narrator that only adds to the suspense.

Definitely recommended and I very much look forward to following this series and thank you to Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of The Girls on Chalk Hill.

What a great listening experience! Although not the happiest of subjects, this audio book was completely gripping from start to finish.
Even when I wasn't listening, I was still caught up in the story and thinking about it.
The chase had me on the edge of my seat, and I will confess, I was rather emotional through some of it.
Beautifully narrated too.
Can't wait to listen to more in the series.
A huge thank you to Alison Belsham and NetGalley for my copy.

I seem to be having a run of luck with my NetGalley reads at the moment. Alison Belsham sells a convincing and disturbing tale surrounding a serial killer and his cat and mouse games with a group of siblings and the detective working the case, who, we discover, was almost one of his earlier victims. This book was hard to put down

I really liked listening to this first Detective Lexi Bennet audiobook. I enjoyed the way Lexi's past integrated with the case she was working on, so the story went much deeper than just what was immediately in front of her evidence-wise. I felt like the pace of the story was good, revealing enough clues to keep you interested without giving too much away. I liked the main character (Lexi) and was rooting for her to solve the case and bring closure to both herself and all the others involved. I would definitely read/listen to the next book when it comes out. I would've loved a bit more closure on Lexi's story, particularly what happened to Rose and also whatever went down during her time in the FBI, but i'm assuming that information was withheld so it can continue to be revealed in subsequent novels.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for the advance copy of this audiobook in exchange for my honest review. I definitely recommend giving this one a listen!

I really enjoyed this book, the first few chapters had me gripped and I was left wanting more. It felt a lot like every other detective book during the middle but was still very enjoyable. It was action packed throughout but especially in the last 30-40% of the book which meant that I flew through the book. I really liked the narrator of this book and they made it easy to listen to the story.
I will continue to read other books from this series when they are released and will be checking out other books that have been written by Alison Belsham.

Beautiful book with an amazing plot and characters.
The plot had me seated from the beginning till the very end. The twists and turns were so unexpected and had me gasping and dreading at every turn. Having a pov of the killer made the whole story so much more interesting. I don't get how Lexi figured out that library was the clue but that about what I don't understand. I would give this book a solid four stars and would recommend this forever because this book deserves more love and appreciation. Alison Belsham did a remarkable job on this book and I can't wait to read more books from her.
The narrator absolutely nailed narrating this book. The way she would quicken her speed whenever the stakes were high made me experience the book as though I was right inside, experiencing the events myself.

Thank you Netgalley for the advance audiobook copy of The Girls on Chalk Hill (Detective Lexi Bennett Book 1) by Alison Belsham in exchange for an honest review. I listened to this book in a day and a half, I couldn't put it down. What an intriguing heroine and detective Lexi Bennett was with a backstory of losing her sister, one third of the triplet set Lexi belonged to and now another set is kidnapped. I really enjoyed this book and am very interested to read more.

WOW !!!! This book was AMAZING !!!! Detective Lexi Bennett is such an amazing character and I can’t wait to get to read the rest of this series!!

Thank you to Alison Belsham’s team and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to listen to the audio ARC of this book, I am so so grateful!!

I am new to crime/thriller books and have tried a few different ones in the past but this one has got me hooked on the genre, I have just finished listening to this book and I am already on the hunt for my next one…

The Girls on Chalk Hill was so so well written and so easy to follow I truly enjoyed it! I loved seeing DI Bennett in action and seeing how passionate she was about her job and how much of an advocate she was for the victims! She is such a queen!

Absolutely obsessed with this book and cannot recommend it enough!!

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This was a great story! I feel like it carried a great pace throughout and the story progressively got better the further I read! This was a chilling serial killer murder mystery with all the twists turns and suspense! I’m excited that this is book one of a series and can’t wait for the next one!

I had the audiobook version of this and the narrator did amazing!
Thanks net galley, the publisher and author for this audiobook ARC!

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this audiobook. Where do I start? I really liked this story. I really liked the audiobook version too. The story itself is very well put together and has a great pace...building the tension many times and keeping me guessing. I liked the main character (Lexi Bennett) who is a detective and also a former Quantico student. The story follows the case of an abduction of triplets, which hits very close to home for Lexi, because she is one of a set of triplets herself. and the same thing happened to her and her sisters 17 years ago. They were abducted. We see Lexi struggling with her memories, her buried trauma/fear as she tries desperately to catch whoever had committed this latest abduction of triplets. Coincidence that it seems to mirror her own abduction? Or are the cases too similar? Copycat? Or has the same abductor somehow returned after 17 years. The writing is good and the audiobook was enjoyable to listen to. I think this story would be great in either book or audiobook format because the writing/story is strong. But the audiobook was a real treat. I loved the narrator's voice (tone and accent) and her pacing. She did multiple characters' voices, including a few different males and she differentiated her voice/tone enough to make it clear. It makes me want to find other audiobooks that this narrator has done. I am looking forward to reading more books by this author, especially Lexi Bennett's next case as this is "Book 1". Loved it.

The Girls on Chalk Hill is the first book in a chilling, shocking, and gripping new series. I had a hard time putting this one down as I wanted to know what happened and the identity of the killer.

They were lying on a hillside, tiaras in their hair, clutching roses. They have been killed and their sister is missing. When Detective Lexi Bennett arrives at the scene the past begins to creep up on her, especially when she learns that the sisters were triplets, and one is missing. Lexi was a triplet and she and her sisters were abducted when they were teenagers. Her sister Rose did not survive.
Lexi is determined to catch the killer.


The tension, danger, and sense of unease mounts in this hard to put down mystery. I enjoyed Lexi's character. She has a sad past but is determined to move on even if this case does hit a little close to home. She is determined, strong and not willing to back down. She is up against a killer who is not only taunting her but obsessed with her. The book is mostly based on Lexi's POV, but readers do get some of the killer's POV as well. This makes for some interesting reading.

I listened to the audiobook and thought the narrator did a great job at bringing the book to life.

Gripping, well written and hard to put down!

I really enjoyed this audiobook - the plot was good and straight to the point. I liked the plotline of the detective having a history with the killer. I kept trying to figure out who the killer was, but didn't have any inclination until it was revealed. This book reminded me of great thriller/suspense movies of the early 2000's like "Along Came A Spider" or "Murder by the Numbers".

I would recommend this audiobook.