This is an excellent tale and well told.

It’s the story of Delia, who works in a bank and her husband, Richard, who following a recent heart attack wishes to travel the country in a motor home he has recently been bequeathed. Unfortunately, Delia doesn’t share this dream and she’s also struggling with the fact that both her children have left home to go travelling, all of which has left her feeling a bit lost.

Then, a friend from work introduces her to a book club, old people start to die and Delia finds herself enmeshed in a serial killer drama.

It’s not really a whodunnit, although, there’s definitely suspense and it’s sufficiently well written that I got carried away with the storyline and characters and I pretty much read in one sitting.

Overall, it’s an easy to read, enjoyable suspenseful mystery with some great characters.

Thank you to NetGalley, BooksGoSocial and the author for the opportunity to preview in exchange for this honest review.

Delia is a senior teller at the local bank. Her husband wants to spend 12 moths touring Australia in the motorhome that was left to him by his uncle. She doesn't want to go! So much to organise, so much to leave behind. Delia is invited to a book club & the world changes dramatically. Is there a serial killer or not??
I enjoyed the book but felt it was all a bit rushed. The story is good but I wanted more suspense. Worth a read though.

Set in Australia. Delia is married with two grown up children. Her husband recently had a heart attack , retired from work and wants her to do the same so they can travel around the country for twelve months.
Delia works in a bank and loves her job. She realises she doesn’t want to retire or travel around in a motor home with him.
Looking for something different she is invited to join a local book club by a fellow worker and organised by an elderly celebrity/actress Karin.
She soon learns that elderly members have been dying suddenly and is convinced they are being murdered.
It is a fairly simple plot and I worked out early on who was the murderer.
3 Stars.

Elderly women are being found dead .... all by different means, all look like they could be accidents. All are widows. All are members of a book club, run by a local celebrity.

Della Frost works at the bank ... but maybe not for much longer. Her husband recently had a heat attack and now he wants to make the rest of his life memorable. He's decided that Della should quit her job and travel around Australia in a motor home. Unfortunately, she hasn't had the chance to tell him she doesn't want to go.

Wanting to do something for herself, she accepts a co-workers invitation to join the book club. She knows this will probably be a one time thing since she'll soon be traveling.

What Della learns is that she has been carefully selected by a serial killer to play a part in the murders of elderly widows.

This is hyped as a suspense thriller set in a small coastal town. I found it more mysterious than suspenseful. The killer was revealed early on ... but it was the motive that kept me reading. The plot was well-paced, and the characters were skillfully done. The ending was worth the wait.

Many thanks to the author / BooksGoSocial / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Celia Frost's life has changed. Ever since her husband had his heart attack she has been stressed. Her husband wants her to quit her job at the bank so that they can travel. She loves her job at the bank. She's not so keen on traveling across Australia in a motorhome.
Andrew a friend she's know for five years and a coworker suggests she should do something new. He tells her of a book club that is help at the town's celebrity's home. She decided to go.. all the women at the book club are older, feisty, gossipy and rather eccentric.
Celia is a down to earth character. Her worries and stresses are believable. The other characters add to her validity.
A good read.
Then she finds out the curse of the book club. Members of that club die.

Took me a short while to take to this but the more I read of this novel the more I liked it. By the end of the book I was wondering what other books had Jonelle Blake wrote.

Delia Frost is happy in her job at the bank and is not looking forward to quitting her job to travel around Australia in a motor home with her husband who is recovering from a heart attack. She wants to tell him that she doesn't want to go can't face it.
​Looking for a bit of time to herself decides to go to a book club she had been invited to which is run by a local celebrity. But the invitation is not random and she was selected ​by a serial killer to play her part in the murders of elderly widows. 

Finding herself caught in a web of blackmail and murder, Delia is now keen to leave this town as fast as she can. Except the killer doesn’t want to let her go.


This was a very enjoyable read with some very interesting characters.

I would like to thank both Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book! I thought I knew where it was going, but was totally wrong.

I think it was very fast paced in some parts, but also a little slow in others.

Other than that it was an amazing book.