I love a good thriller to get stuck into and The Nanny is just that book. Its twisty plot will have you never see the ending coming! You read about young Haley’s life as a nanny to a workaholic British couple in Thailand. Things are not easy for Haley who seems to be looking after little Chloe more and more hours a day. This isn’t what she wanted as she was backpacking around Thailand and wanting to see the country. One day Chloe goes missing.

20 years later Haley is juggling life with caring for her mum, juggling the school run and money is tight so they decide to get a lodger. This is when Haley’s past really does come back to haunt her! Oh, you really are in for a treat!

Well thought out, with clever writing and it has great characters. I’m looking forward to checking out other books by Ruth Heald if they are as good as this one!

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Holy shit. The twist and turns. The revelations. I couldn't catch a break!

there's a missing baby. and her husband didn't know. and God knows what happened to the baby. Oh god oh god. I was at the edge so much i clutched my Kindle.

This book is set in dual timelines, the present day and 1999 and in London and Thailand. In 1999 Hayley is on a gap year in Thailand. When she had her money stolen she took a job as a Nanny working for Julia and David and caring for David’s two daughters Eva and Emily and the for baby Chloe as well. When Chloe goes missing Hayley is questioned by the police and subsequently released but baby Chloe was never found. Fast forward to the present day and we find Hayley married to Lars and they have a six year old daughter Alice. Rachel also has her mother living with them as she has dementia. With her husband’s financial situation they find that they need to take in a lodger ad that’s when her past comes back to haunt her as she is convinced that she knows Joanna, the lodger, from somewhere. Then Ryan, one of the students she works with decides to investigate the disappearance of Chloe and starts questioning Hayley. What worries her that no-one is aware of her past, least of all Lars. What else is Hayley keeping secret? This is a book full of drama, suspense, deceit and lies with plenty of twists and turns especially at the end. It is a compelling read and a book I couldn’t put down.
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

Haley is 19 and becomes a nanny for a couple and their children. She loves them all, especially their daughter Chloe. After a costly mistake leads to the disappearance of Chloe, Haley is blamed and let go. Fast forward 20 years and Haley has a husband and a family of her own now. A woman shows up at her door and she looks so much like David, the father she was a nanny for. This book was full of twists and turns, and was very fast-paced. The plot plays out in two time periods: before Chloe's disappearance and in the present day of Haley's life. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced reader copy.

It is 1999 & Hayley Taylor is enjoying her gap year seeing the world. In Thailand money is getting tight so she gets a job as a nanny to David & Julia. Julia is pregnant & David's two daughters also live with them. Hayley loves the girls but finds Julia difficult. Once baby Chloe is born Hayley is busy & happy until one day Chloe disappears. Hayley is suspected of having something to do with it but nothing can be proved. Fast forward twenty years- Hayley is married with a daughter, She is busy with her & her mother who lives with them. Money is tight so they decide to take a lodger but when Johanna arrives Hayley is shocked & confused- she is sure she knows this young woman.

Told across two timelines this was an engrossing read. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

Psychological thrillers are among my favorite books! The twists and turns of this book are amazing. I stayed up until 3 am reading this, I desperately needed to find out what happened and the same will happen to you!

Summary:

Twenty years ago Haley worked as a nanny for David and Julie in Thailand. After a tumultuous relationship with the family, baby Chloe disappears one night.

Haley now is married to Lars with her own family. One day a young woman appears at Haley’s door, and Haley can’t help but notice the similarities between the young lady and David. Could this be baby Chloe?

Summary:

Wow this was a good one! I didn’t know what to expect since I’ve read many books about babysitters and nannies in the past several years. But the twists and turns that this book entailed totally caught me by surprise! I definitely did not see this coming! The ending was also very satisfying.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the advanced reader’s copy of The Nanny. I absolutely loved it!

I loved the gripping short chapters that always left me wanting more. And the surprising and clever twists that had me not wanting to put it down.

With short chapters that end on cliffhangers (my favorite format!) this was a well written thriller.
Surprising twists, UNPUTDOWNABLE.
Perfect for a quick escape.

Quite good mystery with nice setting though i can't say it has the most original basis or plot execution

Absolutely loved this book. Full of twists and very clever. Amazing read I would recommend to anyone. One of my favourite thrillers of the year.

I am a big fan of Ruth Heald and was not disappointed by her latest thriller,The Nanny. This is a clever, twisty, fast paced thriller that kept me reading late into the night. The plot is highly entertaining and very suspenseful. The book brought up many emotions including shock, surprise, anger and heartbreak. Switching between past and present timelines, the truth behind baby Chloe’s disappearance is revealed. The chapters are short and end on cliffhangers that made The Nanny literally unputdownable. I highly recommend this compelling, intriguing story. Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for my copy. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A fabulous psychological thriller that has so many twists and turns! Telling Hailey's story with alternating dual timelines is the perfect way to develop her story and kept me quickly turning the pages until the shocking end!
The character of Hailey is very well developed and you cannot help but care about what happens to her and her family members.
I found this book hard to put down and kept my attention from beginning to end. A superb book with a brilliant writing style!
I am grateful to Bookouture and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

1999, a child goes missing and the nanny is blamed. Present day, Hayley's past comes back to haunt her...
The Nanny is a dual timeline book set in the UK and Thailand, in the present day and in 1999. The majority of the book alternates between the two times.
Hayley is a busy mum of Alice in the present day. But the events of 1999 are never far from her mind. The baby she was caring for disappeared and was never found. Now someone thinks Hayley knows the truth and is determined to uncover it at any cost.
There is a real tension to the book as there are plenty of clues that give us the opportunity to guess what really happened in the past. The writer gets plenty of emotion into her narrative as Hayley's experiences and vulnerabilities in the past and present are described. I was so angry at how she is treated by a number of characters in both timelines (always a good sign when a book makes you feels something!)
The pace is quite slow as we gradually discover how the past timeline developed and how this has impacted on Hayley in the present. There are some big twists and I did guess one of them but there were more!
The Nanny is a highly emotive psychological thriller.

THE NANNY By Ruth Heald

Hailey took a job as a nanny when she went backpacking to Thailand. She was initially only taking care of the couple's two girls and not the baby, but she instantly bonds with Baby Chloe as well. Due to an unfortunate event Chloe disappears. Hailey is instantly the suspect but because there was no evidence she was let go.

😊What i liked -

✔ Psychological Thriller.
✔ I liked how the story kept bouncing from the present to the past and back.
✔ I liked Hailey's character. She is such a strong lady despite what she had to go through. (I like strong and real characters)
✔ I loved how I kept guessing about what was going to happen next or where Chloe could be.
✔ It's a very gripping story with a lot of twisty twists. A very on the edge kind of a read.
✔ This book has the kind of an ending where you are left baffled. (out of all the guesses i made , the end was far from it)


🤔What could have been better -

✔ Even though I loved the book and yes I do recommend it to everyone, there were times i felt it was stretched a little.


📚Who Should read :

👶Beginners
👮Thriller lovers
🕵Psychological Thriller lovers

📈My Rating : 4/5


Thank you Ruth Heald , Bookouture and Netgalley for a copy.

Swapping gears for one more fun blog tour today--from historical fiction back to psychological thrillers/mysteries. That would be my other genre of choice, in case you might be wondering.

Oh I so needed this book! It was just the perfect option for a psychological thriller, full of twists and turns. I loved how the story flipped between present day Haley and going back to 1999 Haley, filling in more information about the disappearance of baby Chloe.

The Nanny is a rather fast paced novel, and it's so hard to put it down. It's definitely one of those one more chapter type books until you realize it's the middle of the night and you've actually finished the book. You just have to keep try to solve what happened in Thailand and how that reconciles with present day Haley's life.

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The Nanny by Ruth Heald was another fantastic book I loved it. It was full of great twists and turns throughout that will have you hooked from the start to end a great page turner. Plus, it's one of her best books Ruth has written.

I highly recommend this book.5 star book.

Big Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I just finished reading The Nanny by Ruth Heald for a book tour with Bookouture and here is what I thought about it.

20 years is a long time for the past to come back and haunt you but this is what happened to Hayley.. During her time abroad, the baby she was looking after goes missing. The guilt ripped her apart every day but she did her best to live through it.

A woman ends up on her doorstep to rent the room she has. She looks familiar but she thinks she is imagining it. Then a man wants to do a story on the kidnapping and he is asking questions she doesn’t want to answer.

Can she keep from having her past collide with her present? Can Hayley stop a secret so devastating from ending her marriage? Can she keep her daughter safe from the dangers the truth might bring?

This book…. THIS BOOK! I wasn’t sure I had figured it out the whole time. It kept me guessing right to the very end. I love books like this. The kind of read that keeps twisting you around until you aren’t sure what way up or down is. Even the end was a twist to end all twists!
Hayley and Lars have a daughter together and a life, with some financial issues but nothing a lodger won’t help with. Trouble is, she has a face that reminds her of the past and I loved watching how all that unraveled. It was so great seeing all the strands coming together to blow your mind.
The story strandles to time lines. The present and 20 years previously and I usually don’t like books that jump around the way this one did but it actually made a lot of sense to write it the way the author did. It helped bring the whole thing to the kind of climax any thriller reader loves to have.
The pace was well done and I never felt that the story waned at all. I felt terribly sorry for Hayley all the way through. You really feel for what she lived through. I found the character development was well done for the limited amount of time spent on anyone else. It all came together really well and the ending just explodes out and you won’t be able to help saying WHAT!!!!
Are you a thriller lover? Do you like feeling like a pretzel? THIS HAS TO BE YOUR NEXT READ!
5 stars. Take all the stars! Brilliantly captivating masterpiece.
Thank you to bookouture and #netgalley for the privilege of reading this book!

Somehow, I only recently managed to discover Ruth Heald’s books, and I knew straight away that I had found a new favourite author.

This latest novel is superb. I found myself totally drawn into it, and I just couldn’t stop reading it.

The story has a dual timeline, and goes between the events of 1999 in Thailand, and the present day. I really liked Hayley as a character, and I was really intrigued as to what might have happened to baby Chloe. Hayley didn’t strike me as a character who would intentionally harm Chloe, who she was really fond of.

As the story unfolds there seem to be multiple potential scenarios and so many people keeping secrets. I was really struck at how, when Hayley recalls her time in Thailand, she was so young and couldn’t even see how badly she was being treated. David and Julie were really taking advantage of her. When the plot all comes together at the end, it all makes perfect sense.

Really cleverly plotted, with enough twists, turns and secrets to keep you riveted, this psychological thriller is a must-read.

3.5/5 rounded up to four.

This book is a flip back and forth tale of a woman who may or may not have stolen a baby from a couple she was working for. What has Hayley done? What does she know? Where is baby Chloe?

I was rushing to the end of this tale to see what had happened to the little baby and what Hayley was hiding. The ending will shock you and coke up quickly.

Thanks to bookouture and netgalley for this arc!