Unfortunately I struggled to engage with the storyline and therefore was unable to finish this book

This is an amazing thriller. It's so well worth reading and has many twist and turns. My attention was gripped from the first to last page!

A job at Howell Hall, a private psychiatric hospital with a staggeringly high salary for services rendered as a beauty therapist seems a ludicrous prospect for Ali McGovern. Nevertheless, egged on by her husband Marco, and boyed by a few elaborate omissions to her CV she is offered the position. She needs the money, her life having taken a decidedly bad turn for the worse after losing her business and prestigious family home and so she accepts
The Doctors Ferris seem as peculiar as some of the patients but she begins to get to know the nursing team and the patients. Meanwhile, across from the small terraced home she shares with Marco and son Angelo, human remains are uncovered at Dunreddin Abbey during a stormy night.
The story then focusses on who the remains are and how they came to be there. I can say little more without giving away the plot. It was a reasonably good plot, with a few red herrings along the way. I enjoyed the ending which was quite unexpected.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for a review copy of The Weight of Angels, a stand alone psychological thriller set in the Scottish county of Galloway.

Alison McGovern and her family are on their uppers financially when her husband, Marco spots the ideal job opportunity for her, beautician at an upmarket mental health facility. To her surprise and probably with the help of Marco's tweaks to her CV she gets the job at a very healthy £45k/annum. Once she starts it is not all plain sailing and she senses that something is off at Howell House but this is the least of her concerns as a skeleton is unearthed across the road from her house and her son, 15 year old Angelo, seems to know too much about it.

I enjoyed The Weight of Angels and read it in one sitting. There is plenty of mystery surrounding Ali's new job, her boss DR Ferris and the patients and even more over the skeleton. Some of the twists, especially at the end, are clever and unexpected.

The novel is told in the first person by Ali. Normally I'm not a big fan of this approach but it works extremely well here. Ali suffered a breakdown many years ago but with their financial woes and her worry over Angelo or Angel as she calls him she seems to be tottering at the edge of the abyss again. It is not clear initially why she had a breakdown or what caused the financial collapse but it is all revealed over the course of the novel. Ali is not, however, the unreliable narrator so popular in current fiction but, rather, clear headed and smart. The main problem is that Marco and Angel treat her with kid gloves, trying to shield her from some of the harsher realities. She is an appealing character.

To quibble, the plot is somewhat farfetched and relies a bit on coincidence but it is well done and very readable. I really liked the ending which revealed some nasty characters and I think I may re-read the novel at a future date to re-evaluate the characters in light of what I now know.

The Weight of Angels is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.