What did I just read? Goodness can we breathe now because wow what a book.This book was about a woman who is tryna recover that is reminded of her childhood after a young boy goes missing. You see her father was a famous serial killer and she used to help lure children *sob*. This book was dark and all but I was engaged. The plot was quite intriguing. Huge thanks to Avon for my e-ARC

A sincere thank you to the publisher, author and Netgalley for providing me with an ebook copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This is not my usual genre,  however I wanted to take the opportunity to read something from outside my norm. And I am glad I did!! Thank you for  opening up my mind to something totally different. Characters were so well developed that I felt as though I knew them. I love when a book draws you into the story and it feels like you are living it with them.

Fantastic, brilliant, thrilling, absolutely loved this book and read in in a matter of hours, was gripping, my favourite book this year.

Thank to NG for the ARC of this book! I liked the premise of the story, the daughter of a now jailed serial killer has a new identity and family. Cherie aka Leigh Ann Hendy in the past was a young girl when her dad was convicted of multiple serial killings of young boys "for his art," literally as he used the boys' bones in his artwork. Creepy. Then her mother killed herself and Cherie was left alone. She grew up and changed her name, now has a boyfriend and a son herself. A new podcaster outs her, a boy disappears and Cherie is freaking out because her identity is slowly being exposed. There are many twists and turns in this book which kept it interesting but it was a little bit long and wordy. Cherie is also not the most likeable character either. She is really whiney and kind of annoyed me throughout the book. However, the more I read, the more I wanted to see what happened so the plot definitely kept me hooked. Worth reading because it is a new angle on the typical thriller.

What a fantastic read! ‘Little Bones’ has a brilliant plot with numerous twists and turns to keep the reader guessing. The story is fast paced which enables the reader to feel connect to the plot and hooked until the last page. I’d highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good thriller.

I was really excited to read this book when I read the synopsis. I enjoy crime novels and this one is different from the regular crime novels I have read. I am finding myself only rating this novel a 3 stars because I couldn't really get into the story. I tried hard to get into it. I read it and wanted to keep reading except for a few spots here and there that I found myself wondering if I should keep reading. I just didn't find myself being drawn into the story like I was excepting to. I didn't feel like any of the characters were that likable especially Cherrie or her boyfriend, Leo. I found myself cringing every time Cherrie would say I am not Mrs. Duffill or I am not his wife when the police would refer to her with Leo's last name. Does Cherrie really hate her boyfriend? The character development for me was lacking. Overall I liked this book but I wouldn't read it again.

When you start a book and finish it in one day because you can't put it down says A LOT about a book. Cherrie's son Robin is missing or was he murdered by the hands of his own mother? Leigh-Ann AKA Cherrie is the daughter of a serial killer and was nicknamed Little Bones by the newspapers. She changed her name and her life but the past has now caught up to her. Little boys are missing can this be the work of Little Bones? SO much suspense and mystery in this book . I didn't want to put it down! Loved it! I It was different then anything I've read in awhile and was pleasantly surprised. I would defiantly recommend reading !

As soon as I saw this book and read the synopsis I HAD to read it and thankfully I was given the opportunity (thank you to the Publisher & Netgalley for this ARC!) to do so.
I was a bit confused at first as I found the book under the True Crime section and it is most clearly Fiction but once that was sorted I finished this book in record time.
Leigh-Ann Hendy later known as Cherrie Forrester and previously known as "Little Bones" is a likeable woman. I loved her tenacity and her take no prisoners attitude. The book is ultimately about a serial killers daughter who once grown changes her name and starts life anew with a boyfriend and a young son but a young boy has gone missing in her neighbourhood. This dredges up her fathers case from decades before as he liked to abduct and murder young boys. Some young amateur detective decides to start a podcast outing Cherrie as "Little Bones" "Mr. Bones's" daughter and immediately our mains life is turned upside down.
I loved the pace of this book. I enjoyed the different characters that played small but important roles surrounding the tragedies that befall Cherrie on the road to freedom from her fathers shadow.
This book tugged at my heart strings, being a mom of two boys and the thought of child abduction is the most horrifying situation imaginable, but I made it through with nothing but great feelings about the book.
Thank you to the Publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Loving this debut thriller. Cherrie has finally walked away from her past and has a happy family. Until one night she finds a podcast that brings her past into her present. This was a great who done it mystery. Kept me guessing until the end.
Thank you to #NetGalley and NV Peacock for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

"I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones...
My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago.
As a child I witnessed his crimes.
Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I’m a mother. I am finally free.
Until that podcast. I should never have listened.
They’re linking a recent disappearance to the crimes of the past.
They know who I am. They’re calling me Little Bones again.
They say I’m a villain but I’m not. I’m a victim.
You believe me, don’t you?"

A legacy of murder and an unreliable narrator, a perfect Halloween read!

Mixed review 2.5 rounded up for first book

I wanted to like this more. The narrator was annoying and, at times, downright ridiculous. The writing is fine, though it was much longer that it should have been. I found myself wondering how it was going to wrap up and then seeing I was at 52% done - ugh.

I think some of my hesitation comes from the fact that “Little Bones” was 8 when she was taking part in the crimes with her dad. Eight is way too old. A child of that age would easily understand that this behavior wasn’t right. It seems that throughout the story she is kept away from the most grizzly of the crimes yet claims to help her dad bury the “stalker’s kid” (when they used acid to decompose them so they could create art from the bones?!?). It was just contradictory and strange. And the nicknames - please make it stop. Less is more. Always.

On the plus side, it was a great concept. The characters as a whole were interesting. The twists were there. Some reviewers some them coming, me not so much. I definitely had to see how this would end. This is a solid first book. I will look for more from this author.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and Avon Books UK for a copy in exchange for a review.

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Wow! I enjoyed reading this so much. Haven’t come across this author before but the description appealed to me. So glad I gave it a try. One of the best books this year! Could very easily see this made into a TV adaptation. Highly recommend.

The antidote to your Prodigal Son withdrawals, this child-of-a-serial-killer suspense will leave you turning pages and hating sensationalist podcasters.

Cherrie Forrester has a lovely family with her loving boyfriend and their charming son. She has friends, a job, and a happy, simple life. Leigh-Anne Hendy is the daughter of notorious serial-killer Mr. Bones, abductor of young boys who used their skeletons for his art projects and used his daughter as his apprentice.

The problem is that only one of these women exists. And when Cherrie's son is kidnapped she'll have to confront which of these women she wants to be to bring him back home safe.

This is N. V. Peacock's debut thriller (she has published supernatural YA before), and after finishing Little Bones I'm excited to see if she continues to write for the thriller genre. Especially if she continues with the Little Bones/Dr. Bones characters. I'd read a sequel. Sign. Me. Up.

Peacock starts to build the suspense right away, with the disappearance of another boy in the neighborhood that gets Cherrie thinking about her own childhood, followed shortly by the appearance of a poorly researched but popular podcast that not only drags out all her father's old crimes but, essentially, doxes Leigh-Anne and gives listeners her new name.

When Cherrie's son is taken from a fairground shortly before Halloween she is already notorious, and thanks to that infamy she has to deal both with a missing child and being accused of killing him herself.

Like father like daughter.

Using some of the same tropes as Prodigal Son (the TV show), Cherrie goes back to visit her father for clues into the mind of someone who would take a child as she tries to run down the first 48 hours to find her son.

This is a thriller that keeps you up, with characters I enjoyed, and a plot blends elements of the unique and bizarre with the realistic for a believable crime thriller.

It's not perfect, the twist ending is telegraphed early on in the book and a few of Cherrie's personality traits are annoyingly pounded home (like her phone not getting emojis and her obsession with Grey's Anatomy). But it's still a perfect fall read from a debut thriller author to watch.

To say I was very excited to read this book would be an understatement. Little Bones by N V Peacock was my first approved ARC from the site NetGalley. Having only signed up earlier in the week I was over the moon to have a request approved so quickly. This book was the first to catch my eye of their endless catalogue of reads. The cover is utterly stunning and the brief description only intrigued me further. It sounded definitely like my cup of tea.

Little Bones follows mother Cherrie who is trying to lead a normal life. However, her life has been far from normal. Now living under a new name, the once Leigh- Ann, is desperately trying to keep the past where it belongs. This becomes exceedingly hard when a crime podcast reveals her true identity, claiming she is the daughter of notorious serial killer Mr Bones who killed 11 young boys back in the 80s. Now a local boy has gone missing and the finger on blame is being pointed at her ‘Little Bones’. After all, they do say like father like daughter!

The premise of this book hooked me with the first few pages. I read the entirety of this book in two sitting in less than 24 hours which is pretty impressive compared to the awful reading slump I’ve been in since the end of last month. A real page-turner that I just couldn’t put down, I needed to know what was going to happen next. The only thing I will say is that I would have loved to have seen more of Cherrie’s relationship with her father, both past and present, you see glimpses of this throughout the book but I just wished it had been delved into a little deeper.

Many reviews I have now read for this book claimed that it was too gruesome for them but honestly I could have handled a bit more. Maybe that’s the true crime/serial killer fanatic in me but I just wanted to know all the gory details about the original crimes. But ultimately I know that story was more based around Cherrie and her life now. Her dad’s storyline there to flesh out the plot.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this read and cannot wait to see more of what NetGalley has to offer. I gave Little Bones by N V Peacock ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5 stars and would highly recommend it to any true crime lover like myself.

Little Bones by N.V. Peacock is an interesting true crime thriller. I was intrigued since the beginning of the book.

Mr. Bones is a serial that has been in prison for 25 years. His daughter Little Bones played with his victims and helped make artwork out of his bones. 25 years later, Little Bones has legally changed her name and nobody knows about her past.

A young boy goes missing in Cherrie’s town. Then, a podcast announces that Cherrie is Little Bones and assumes she is following in her father’s footsteps. Cherrie’s past is coming back to haunt her, and her family isn’t safe. Will Cherrie have to tell her friends and family about her past? Will they find out on their own? What happened to the missing boy? Is his disappearance related to Mr. Bones or a copycat?

Little Bones was a good thriller. I was very interested in finding out what was going to happen next. However, I did not like Cherrie. I didn’t feel like she acted rationally. I know she wouldn’t be thinking clearly when she was in a stressful situation. In her head she would assume she know who was responsible and then ignore everything else and go after them. This bothered me. I did really enjoy some of the other characters. Tracy, Cherrie’s best friend and all of Cherrie’s friends were very supportive and loyal. Kylie is a very interesting character and really added to the story. Mariah, a psychic is also a unique part of Little Bones. I liked seeing how the different characters reacted to Mariah’s predictions.

Little Bones really opens up the concept of villain versus victim which was very interesting.

I recommend Little Bones to True Crime Thriller fans as long as having likeable characters is not important to you.

Thank you NetGalley and Avon Books UK for Little Bones.

A great book, Cherrie is one bad ass mam who has had the most awful childhood being accomplice to serial child killer Mr Bones. When her child disappears she takes matters into her own hands and will do anything to get her baby back. Gripping read thanks to netgalley for the advanced copy

A great thriller with multiple twists and turns! I really enjoyed the red herrings and I kept thinking to myself "no way!" each time the main character (Cherrie/Leigh-ann) thought she had figured out what had happened to her son. I enjoyed the darker elements of the novel - the meeting with Mr Bones in particular. The addition of the psychic and the link to the supernatural was also something that really encouraged me to read the book.

I did find the main character extremely hard to like and this made reading some sections of the novel quite tiresome. She seemed to jump from feeling relatively calm to punching the person closest to her without much build up in-between! I also found it difficult to stay on track with what age Robin was as his dialogue was child-like in parts and then very adult in others.

I would recommend this to someone who enjoys darker thrillers with hints at more disturbing themes. Thank you to Netgalley and Avon Books for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!

The synopsis drew me in and I'm so glad it did.

This was a great book for escapism, you won't (I hope) relate to the characters but it was a perfectly observed book about a child who grew up around abhorrent violence and who she bacame.

A must read for the fans of serial killer genre but definitely expect more as Cherrie narrates for us.

There is a woman named Cherrie. She was formerly known as Leigh-Ann, daughter to a serial killer of young boys. She sought to separate her past by changing her name and starting a new life. She has a live-in boyfriend and a five-year-old son named Robin. Her father was caught when she was eight years of age so she should have been able to bury her past.

However, there is a new podcast about her father and her identity is leaked. What is more, and far worse, is there is a new disappearance. The public is calling her Little Bones again and suspect her of killing the missing child. She feverishly searches for the child, all while trying to avoid the finger pointing and stares coming her way.

What a chilling book, especially when it came to Cherrie's internal dialogue. I never liked Cherrie. Not from page one. Of course, I didn't judge her by her father's crimes, but there were things about her that ate at me while I read through the pages of this book. I was only able to give this book 3 Stars.

Many thanks to Avon Books UK and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

I liked this book .. it was a little bit predictable though. It was definitely a page turner but nothing spectacular. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy In return for a fair and honest review.