The premise of this book was interesting and I kept reading because I was interested in how the story would play out. However, there was something amiss for me and I can't quite put my finger on what it was. I think that a part of it was the writing was a little too slow burn and repetitive for me. Instead of allowing the story to unfold to give off the thrilling and suspenseful vibe, it felt more like details kept repeating themselves as so to remind us that it is suppose to be eerie. Overall, I'm not disappointed that I read the book and I do believe others will enjoy it more than I did.

As a huge fan of the author's Detective Gina Harte Series I couldn't wait to get into this one!

'On a Quiet Street' is a standalone domestic thriller which I found a good enough read but in all honesty it didn't really click with me, maybe my expectations were set roo high because of how much I enjoy the Gina Harte series but whilst I read until the end, it didnt thrill or excite me,

Leah and her husband Cain enjoy a quiet and comfortable life but there are obviously troubles in their marriage, Leah is still hurt from a past affair and now has zero trust, even more so now that Cain has to keep 'working late' and comes home smelling of perfume.

Leah is in the process of clearing her mothers house, who recently passed away. Even though she didn't have any real relationship with her Mum, as an only child it is left to her to clear out her home.

A knock at the door one late evening, Leah opens it to find an 18 year old girl standing there. She claims to be looking for her biological parents. Leah immediately suspects that Cain is the father to this girl, Charlotte but then Charlotte reveals information that only Leah knows, but Leah hasnt got a child!

Will Leah's secrets from her past come to light? Will her comfortable life come crumbling down?

Personally I didn't like the characters, especially Leah and her constant excuses for Cain drove me mad,

Whilst this one wouldn't ever put me off reading another book by Carla Kovach, I cant say I overly enjoyed this one,

With thanks to netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
I read this and also listened to the audiobook version as well.
A wild ride of surprises and as follow Leah and her search for the truth on what happened 18 years ago and also what is happening currently in her life with her marriage.
Great book with some very sneaky characters and a strong main character.
Both the print and audio version were really good.

This book was great. It was well written and definitely kept my attention from start to finish!! It was an easy ready and every time I put it down I was excited to pick it up and see what was going to happen next. Definitely recommend!

Amazing story! I love the Gina series so wasn’t sure about this one being a standalone but wow! Kept me gripped to the very end. Excellently written with great characters and a brilliant story.

Quiet streets are a really unsetting thing so when you write a psychological thriller novel about that it works. I enjoyed the characters and how they worked with the plot of the book. I thought it worked overall and I enjoyed getting to figure out what was going on.

Wow, this book just delivers shock after shock. From the very beginning this is a story with so many twists it seems as though you will never manage to untangle what is going on. Then just as you think you have worked out what is going on another knot is thrown into the mix. Carla Kovach's Gina Harte series is one of the best police procedurals and with this book she has shown that she has more than one string to her bow, she can write 5 star psychological thrillers too.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book

The plot was like a smashed mirror and I had to assemble the jumbled broken pieces.
There was much to sort out in the very beginning but Kovach knows how to hook me and then reel me in chapter by chapter.
I thought Leah was very neurotic and both she and Cain were miserable. I suspected something about Zara early on and I was right!
Things began to become more clear, especially after the POV changes to another character.
It certainly kept me hanging on to every word, but I won’t be moving to that street anytime soon.nor planting daffodils.

On a Quiet Street by Carla Kovach is a thrilling book about the power of secrets and lies. Leah is at home where she and her husband live when there's a knock at the door. Leah answers the door to find a young woman standing there. Charlotte is 18 years old and tells Leah that she was adopted as a baby and is looking for her biological parents. Charlotte says that she was told she could find them at this address. Leah suspects that Cain is cheating on her and immediately wonders if this girl could be his. Leah agrees to meet Charlotte the next day at a coffee shop to find out more. She doesn't want to alert Cain as of yet.

Leah has been keeping a big secret since she was 16 years old. She's never told anyone about it and never plans to. After meeting with Charlotte it becomes clear that her secret might come to light and it could destroy everything. It could also be the best thing to ever happen to Leah. Why did Leah's estranged mother meet with Charlotte before her prolonged death from cancer? Leah hadn't seen her mother in years. What lies did her mother tell Charlotte? Is Charlotte out to get something from Leah? As Leah is cleaning out her mother's home after her death, a lot of bad memories begin to surface. Why does the neighbor keep coming over and telling Leah to leave? Why does she have a key to Leah's mother's house? Why is someone stalking Leah and trying to scare her with horrifying text messages? Someone knows her secret and will do anything to keep it a secret.

On a Quiet Street will keep you guessing until the end. I enjoyed this book a lot and rate it 4 stars with a high recommendation. I'd like to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for an advanced copy of On A Quiet Street in exchange for a fair review. On a Quiet Street is out now and should not be missed! #OnAQuietStreet

Carla Kovach's ON A QUIET STREET is a must-read domestic suspense filled with twists, turns, and unreliable narrators. With a web of family secrets, lies, and deceit from past generations that converge and spiral out of control with a final jaw-dropping twist.

How far will these twisted families go to keep their dark secrets?

Leah is married to Cain. Leah has not had an easy past. She had a traumatic past. This trauma has affected her throughout her life. Now, her cheating husband wants a baby, but due to this (she holds a secret), she is not having a baby with him. Plus, he is a liar and cheat.

The devious mother, Jane, developed a plan without Leah's knowledge. They are estranged. However, years later, three eighteen-year-old girls (Angel, Charlotte, and Freya) who are friends show up at her doorstep, claiming she is the mother.

How can this be? The only friend Leah has now is her best friend, Zara.

From past to present, we learn of Leah's past and her horrific mother, Jean, and their neighbors, the Pearsons.

Jean is now dying of cancer and has reached out to her granddaughter to tell her the truth before she dies. She hires her to take care of her in her final days. Can this young girl believe her?

However, Jean is estranged from Leah and keeps her in the dark.

After her mom passes and inherits the house, she gets a visit from this girl. The three girls are friends and not being honest or forthcoming. Jean tells nothing but lies.

In the meantime, Cain lies and has affairs. Then, a mysterious woman, Rosie and Derren, interject themselves into Leah's life. Leah's haunted past returns.

The granddaughter does not know whom to believe and devises a plan with her friends. Did her mom want her? Who are her real parents? Were her adoptive parents in on the plan?

However, the plan backfires when a DNA test is done.

Who is buried in Jean's backyard under the daffodils?

Then, someone is out to take them down to keep their lives free of complications and hide the secrets of the past.

INTENSE AND GRIPPING!

ON A QUIET STREET is a dark, complex, twisty, and multi-layered psychological thriller of family and the lies they tell that spiral down through generations.

The author keeps you cleverly in the dark and suspense of the girl's name and then throws a final twist at the end. How far will they go to keep their secrets?

I enjoyed ON A QUIET STREET even though it was frustrating at times and did not have a lot of likable characters. Jean was a creepy character, as the house and the creepy daffodil garden grave. I wish it had a little humor to balance the dark family dysfunction.

For fans of Freida McFadden, Emily Shiner, Miranda Rijks, Daniel Hurst, and K.L. Slater. My first book by the author, and I'm looking forward to reading more!

Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for a gifted digital advanced reading copy for an honest opinion.

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My Rating: 4 Stars
Pub Date: Jan 15, 2024
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Leah lives on a quiet street with her husband Cain and their life is picture perfect. But when 18-year-old Charlotte knocks on their door saying she’s looking for her biological parents the walls start to crumble and long-held secrets threaten to finally be unearthed…

OMG. This one hell of rollercoaster ride! Tense, twisty and thrilling, I stayed up reading this one late into the night and read it in under a day. Carla Kovach is an autobuy author for me and I know whenever I read one of her books she’s delivering a riveting thriller that I’ll love. And while I’m a big fan of her Gina Harte series, I do look forward to her standalones so I couldn’t wait to dive into this one.

Fast paced, cleverly written and cunningly plotted, this has secrets, lies, suspicion and loss. All the relationships are dysfunctional, creating one big cluster of toxicity and mistrust. I couldn’t even be sure about Leah, vacillating between believing what she was saying and thinking she was hiding something more. It is a complex and intricately woven maze of trouble that didn’t go in the directions I thought it would AT ALL. The twists and turns kept coming, deviating into completely unexpected directions again and again until I finally stopped trying to figure things out and decided to just enjoy the ride.

So if you love thrillers that make you feel lots of emotion, keep you on your toes and surprise you, then this is a must read.

**Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an opportunity to review an ARC of this ebook**

3.5 stars rounded up!

I'm a huge sucker for domestic thrillers, stressed and wary wife, husband who is possibly full of secrets that are yet to be uncovered. I ate this up.

The main character annoyed me a lot, I can't stand the naïve wife who is always making excuses for the terrible husband. I suppose she was meant to get under our skin, but she was dumb.

This book got off to a slow start for me, but even so I wasn't able to put it down. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, and really unsure of how this story would continue. It is fast paced and easy to read. About half way through, one thing happened and I had to finished it in one sitting. It was intriguing and so much was happening at once that I just needed to know what was going to happen next. For fans of Tarryn Fisher, I think this is a great next read!

Lee doesn’t trust her husband came due to past dalliances , so when a girl shows up claiming Lee’s house is where her biological parents live she immediately thinks it must be Cain‘s daughter when the girl explains to Lee that her mom Jean told her everything Lee is shocked. She believes her mom even at the time of her death wanted to ruin her life from beyond the grave and this is the reason this girl is there but because she knows things and she has items that prove what she saying Lee decides to meet her at a local restaurant. When Lee arrives she asked the girl to take a DNA test which the girl agrees to. Soon however Lee is getting threatening texts telling her to stop looking in to the girls story. It doesn’t help that she has to go clean out her moms house because being there only brings up bad memories that she would rather not think about. Nor does it help when she finds A lone daffodil left on the bed in her childhood room. She immediately leaves knowing she has a stalker and with the threatening notes and texts it all just becomes too much but doesn’t stop her from wanting to find out the truth but will she live to learn what really is going on? I really did like this book more than I disliked it I especially liked how she told her best friend Zara everything I also really liked Lee and the teenage girl and was totally rooting for them but I didn’t like how weak Lee was when it came to Kane. I do however know how it is when you want to be wrong about something you know deep down inside you’re absolutely right about. This is a solid read and although they do have a few I Rowling moments it’s still entertaining and quite thrilling. I want to thank Bookoucher and Net Galley for my free Ark copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

Everyone is lying here. No one is what they seem to be. Everything gets weird extra fast and then it gets extra weird. Twisty, fast-paced, chilling read that begins as a somewhat slow burn and then picks up the speed and gets addictive.

While I am a fan of the author’s Gina Harte Series, this is a stand alone and a good way to jump into reading something by her.

There were lies, secrets, misdirections and omissions galore. I didn’t connect or like the characters, but was interested in finding out what was up. Was Charlotte Leah’s daughter? What was up with Leah’s husband and the couple he was trying to woo? And her Mom? And her friend? There was so very much going on. I did for a minute get a little confused with the characters in the middle, but I think that is intentional in keeping me guessing who was in on which part of the story. There was hinting or foreshadowing of where some of the characters belonged.

The complex plot is staged in a unique way. First I read the story from Leah’s POV, we then also from Charlotte’s POV. It really filled in some of the details of their complicated relationship and history that second time around and wasn’t repetitive. I did have moment where I wanted to yell at both of them in their poor decisions, but I find I do that a lot in my reading lately.

And that last twist I had no inkling whatsoever. Kudos!

If you’re a fan of domestic thrillers full of family secrets and twists, you should pick this one up.

In this standalone thriller by Carla Kovach, Leah and Cain have a strained relationship. Leah is positive that Cain is cheating on her. He'd done it before. More than that, Leah has a huge void in her heart whenever she thinks of the baby that she lost.

Leah recently lost her mother, and was left everything her mother had. This leaves Leah with mixed feelings because she had a difficult relationship with her mother, one that left her with mental scars.

A trio of three girls, it becomes clear that they have a very specific purpose in mind. One of them, Charlotte, apparently is looking for her biological parents as she recently learned that she was adopted, and is certain that Leah is her birth mother. However, keep reading the story. This is where the twists really begin in this book.

While the story had a bit of a slow start, it gained traction as the story went on. I loved the drama that this story told, albeit the sad moments in this story. Then the conclusion. Done in a fabulous manner and my eyes were glued to my Kindle.

Many thanks to Bookouture and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Bookouture for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

On a Quiet Street was such a good book once I got into. the beginning was very slow but once it picked up there was no turning back. Every emotion was hit as well as murder, cheating, (Trigger warnings also, slight mention) lies and secrets.

Although the book started slow I definitely want to check out more books by Carla Kovach because I enjoyed the majority of this book so much.

You'll read this book in one day! Well, one day if your day ends at 1:30 a.m. because you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!

This was such a complex mystery, of identity, he said, she said, cheating husband, lying husbands, wives, and mothers! There was a stalker, threatening texts, and break-ins.

Kovach takes us on a whirlwind quest to find out who Charlotte is, if Leah is her mother, and if Leah did what her mother said she did. There was a little repetition in the retelling from different points of view, but that by no means took away from the horrible truths that are unveiled.

A solid 5 stars. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an advance reader's copy!

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookouture, and Carla Kovach for an advance copy of On A Quiet Street in exchange for an honest review. First off, HAPPY PUB WEEK to this gem of a book!! I am new to Carla Kovach and Im wondering where this author has been my whole life? I found myself instantly sucked into this one and I couldnt put it down until I knew what the heck was going on. The characters were so fun to read about and I loved seeing how everything worked out for them all in the end. I definitely wasnt expecting the ending and thats always a great thing for me! If youre looking for a thriller that will keep your heart pounding and you on the edge of your seat, look no further then this one! This one is out now! 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 for Goodreads.