Hide and Seek starts with a fast paced and frantic chapter that had me holding my breath until the end of the chapter. Dont advise it, if your a slow reader you will end up looking like a smurf. Thats not Smufist is it? You have to careful these days who you "offend".

With Richard Parker, Bookouture have added yet another fantastic thriller writer to their fold.
This fast paced thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout and no matter how many things you have to do this book will call to you as you walk past it on the way to do the ironing, shouting "just one more chapter, go on." and you will give in, 4 chapters later the ironing is still in the basket and its time to pick up the kids from school.

I read the first chapter and put the novel down thinking it was not for me. The description of the child snatching was so well written I was shaking in fear. Then I thought I must try to read it just to write a review and read it in 3 days flat. I could not put it down! It is so well written that the shift from Lana to Todd is seemless and natural.

Mum, Lana, we feel for and although we might not agree we can understand why she is going sites of snatchings to investigate Mr Whisper. Dad, Todd, appears a normal, guilt ridden dad who regrets not being able to defend his family. At first that is, then we realise that he's not just an extra and his development is just as engaging as Lane's.

Nothing is predictable! Even at the end there is doubt that even parents' courage is enough to resolve the plot. You just have to keep hoping.

A fantastically well written and easy to engage with stylr makes this a worthy read if you can bear it.

I received a free copy from net galley.com for my fair and honest review.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review!

This is one of those rare mysteries that kept me guessing! I could not put it down. From page one, I was engrossed and read it all at once because IT WAS THAT GOOD! The only critique I had was that there was some spots where I wanted to scream at the main character to open her eyes due to the obvious direction the plot took.

Excellent story. Will be recommending this at work.

Thanks for the chance to read this.

Hide and Seek

Oh my goodness, every parent’s worst nightmare, one minute your child is there, the next he’s disappeared. Gripped from the start, I really enjoyed Hide and Seek.

Like Parker’s last book, I could see this being made into a film. Full of tense twists and turns that pack a real punch, you’ll keep guessing right until the end! Hide and Seek is a real heart in your mouth read that I thoroughly enjoyed! Five stars from purplebookstand.

I was lucky to be provided with an ARC of this book and I voluntarily provided this review.

Thank you Netgalley. Wow right from the first page you're hooked! In a race against time right to the end I was kept on the edge of my seat! I just couldnt put it down. Definitely recommend.

Hide and Seek was sold to me as a 'edge of your seat' 'cat and mouse' thriller - however I found it to be incredibly dull. Lana's son Cooper has been kidnapped - months after an attempted abduction previously. Lana will do anything it takes to get him back, whilst her husband deals with a whole bunch of secrets of his own. I almost put it down a few times but was determined to finish. Disappointing.

This was absolutely terrible. Not gripping at all, unless you mean gripping the toilet.

Unfortunately, I didn't particularly enjoy this book, as I know if a thriller doesn't capture my attention right from the start then I am not going to like it. It might suit some people, but unfortunately this one was just not for me.

Brilliantly written, gripping and action packed right from the start. I loved it.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get into this one. I can't explain why.

First off I have to tell you that due to some issues with my Kindle I have no notes for this book and so this will not be the Pulitzer winning blog post I had hoped for, in fact, it may not even come close (I know, what?!) but, yes, you can already guess from the glib way I’m speaking that this will be another rave review that I’m quite hyper and excited about, and that if oyu don’t want this type of review you may need to just shut your eyes tight and avoid. (If not let’s go!)

So, at this stage you’re thinking ‘yeah, yeah’ another excellent book from Bookouture, right?’ YES! And wow, what a book! From the start this book was different in that it had a kick ass mother who SAVED her child from being abducted. They never do that in books, do they? The first few pages are that the mother looks out to the eerie sight of a swing moving in the wind, or a toy left on it’s own in the garden. Not here! Here, Lana (who I loved the whole way through-yay!) runs out when she sees a man land over her garden fence. Lana does her epic ass kicking stuff, but in a way you yourself could, making your heart pound as you egg her on, and rescues her son. But the kidnapper leaves her with a message that he will be back. Yeeks!

Of course Lana and her husband are not going to let their little boy get taken and so they both try to keep him safe. Lana decides the best way is to find the kidnapper and this leads her into a dark and twisted online world where she doesn’t know who to trust, and also to various crime scenes, as she retraces and revisits old crimes, some in quite vivid, gory detail (I found it to be, anyhoo, people who like their tougher crimes probably wouldn’t flinch!) I thought it was excellent the way this was done, what better way to get characters into morbid, dark settings, than to have them want to venture there of their own free will? This added to your slowly bubbling sense of nervousness, you never knew if someone was waiting for Lana.

The suspense, the settings, both dark and light, were excellent, the characterisation perfection. In particular I adored her little man, Cooper, and her husband (whose name escapes me which is driving me nuts and apologies on this one, his story is as good as Lana’s) and a special mention has to go to a taxi driver who we meet later in the book (I won’t attempt to name him, as I don’t don’t want to spell his name wrong, he deserves more than that!) I loved, as I always do, that actually, when it came down to it, Lana was rarely alone, she generally had a helping hand of some sort, which was excellent, as I’ve said before I don’t think a lead needs to be isolated to keep us worrying. The pacing was amazing, the settings so vividly drawn for us and so full of character that I was right there every step of the way, up until the outstanding climax that had every synapse firing. I adored this book so much and will be recommending it to anyone I know that even remotely likes thrillers. I’d love to say it should be made into a film but I don’t know that my nerves would take it. Excellent stuff and so, so, so (so!) recommended (go get!) Thanks so much to Bookouture and Netgalley for this book in return for an honest review.

Rating: 5/5 (and very likely my thriller of the year!)

Absolutely outstanding read that kept me gripped from start to finish. The reveal at the ending couldn't have been any better and I will most definitely be reading more of Richard's work in the future.

Alas it was archived before I got chance to read it.

A kidnapped child is every parent's worst nightmare. When Cooper is abducted during a family vacation, Lana and Todd pull out all the stops to try to find their son.

This mystery thriller has a lot of tell and dialog along with genre typical action. Some creepy abandoned places and a couple of plot lines. Kidnappers are never nice people, so the villains are exactly the type you expect. The "follow" scenes seemed to drag on forever, however, and I found myself having to ram down my level of continual disbelief with the implausibility.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC to read and review.

thanks netgalley.

Lana would do anything to protect her family and trip that was won, shows just how much she would do.

This book was ok, enjoyable but too much heroics. Yes it is every parents worse nightmare. I would dread to think how I would react in this situation. But I found this too much

Great story, thrilling plot. Very well written, great author.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. This was a fast paced and well written thriller. Highly recommend

I am like a moth to the light, I see a book by Richard Parker and I know that I have to read it. “Follow me” scared the hell out of me but this, this played with my mind. This fuelled every  motherly instinct that I owned and I wanted to come out fighting. It is tense with an urgency about the story that increased my reading speed at every chapter.
The opening pages just make every mothers worse nightmares into every mothers worse reality. There just can’t be a more devastating sight than what Connor’s mother witnessed and there can’t be a worse situation than this for a child to feel they are in. This isn’t a case of stranger danger of a child being enticed, this is brute force, in broad day light and from the child’s garden all witnessed by a mother. A man determined to take this child but not bargaining on a woman who will do anything to get her child back.
Set in Jaxton USA I think that this would definitely warrant counselling sessions for life for mother and child. Especially as Lana falls deeper and deeper into a daily life of being obsessed about safety rather than living and grows a morbid fascination with a phone app that displays death sites. The whole family need a get away break to get a little normality back into their lives so when a chance comes up they grab it.
This is one hell of a story told in alternating chapters between Lana and her husband Todd. There was no way that I could have even come close to guessing the reasoning behind everything that was happening in the story. It was exciting, nail-biting stuff, that made me want to just talk to all my grandchildren all of a sudden.
This isn’t a gruesome story this story is built on fear, the fear of it happening and the fear they won’t be found alive and it works to create a bond between reader and the parents in this book. It makes it all seem very personal.  A super book that I could really relate to and become emotionally involved. Just loved it.
I wish to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC of this book which I have reviewed honestly.

Brilliantly written, gripped me instantly. The author has done a great job in writing something which had me reading constantly without putting the book down until the very end.