Good Bad Girl is a perfectly layered domestic thriller that will make you want to read more after each unexpected twist. Chapter by chapter, things start to come together, and relationships begin to become apparent. This book kept me on my toes the entire time as questions were answered about the murder in the present day and the missing baby twenty years earlier. Alice Feeney's writing was fantastic and much different than her other books. My minor complaint is that the book was initially very complex and confusing with the many characters introduced. It took me a while to understand that I did not need to figure out everything immediately. If you ignore trying to figure out how everyone is related, you will enjoy this book much better. This book is a great domestic thriller that touches on postpartum depression and what it means to be a “good” mother.

Also, the audiobook was excellent. Both Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the book.

Thank you to both NetGallery and to Macmillan Audio for giving me a copy of the book.

I thought this one sounded right up my alley and seen tons of great reviews for it so I was excited to get to it early. I did enjoy this one although it did take me a bit to get into the story. I decided to go back and forth between the physical and audiobook (Narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine) that worked out really well. The narration was excellent. There were lots of pov's in this book which could get confusing at times, especially at the beginning, so it was nice to have the physical book so I could flip back and figure out who was who. 

At the beginning you read about the abduction of a baby from a stroller. The mother loves her daughter but is also going through a hard time with PPD. Then 20 yrs later you read about Edith who is in a nursing home. She was tricked into the home by her daughter. and is planning her escape with Patience, one of the aides at the home. Then another woman who works at the care home is found murdered. Edith's daughter Clio doesn't bother with Edith and you want to learn what happened in this relationship. Can these crimes and people be connected?! I don't want to go into more because I feel going in as blind as possible would be good with this one.

I had fun trying to figure out the pieces of the puzzle in this book, and I did enjoy how it ended. All of the characters are unreliable. You don't know who has an ulterior motive or who to trust. Well except for Edith. She's great! This was a good mystery. 

Out August 29.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the gifted copy and audiobook. All opinions are my own. My review will be posted on Instagram, Bookbub, Goodreads, and Amazon once it publishes.

Alice Feeney is my favorite author but I go into these books unbiased because not every book is a winner from an author. For example His and Hers. I didn't like that one almost at all. But this one was really good. From beginning to end it was a stressful. Which is something I like in a thriller. A real page turner.

Thank you Flatiron Books @netgalley @macmillan.audio for a copy of this book. I was expecting a thriller but this book is more a family mystery drama. The book is about 2 mystery: a case of a missing baby that happened 20 years ago, and a missing 80 year old resident of a care home. The story is told in multiple POV and timeline so you do have to pay attention since there are a lot of characters. The pacing of the book was a little slow for me. I did enjoy seeing how all the characters tied together.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the advance audiobook of, Good Bad Girl, by Alice Feeney. The narration by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine is spot on. Really enjoyed listening to this.

I have enjoyed other books by Alice Feeney and this one too does not disappoint. It has a complex storyline and may be a bit confusing at first, but as you keep listening/reading it starts connecting the dots one by one. A captivating mystery with all the drama and surprising twists that Alice Feeney does so well.

This is the story of 4 women, each good and bad in their own ways and struggling with the ways they are bad and how that has impacted others. There’s a murder mystery thrown in for good measure so the detectives can be involved.
I did not see some of the reveals coming and that’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, the first 20% of the book was a bit of a snooze fest to me. My love of this author and hope based on prior experience won out. The narrator was also fantastic so that helped.
One thing that was a bit of a barrier was the term “paper cut” as it clearly meant something different than I had ever heard before and took me a second to contextualize it each time, longer toward the beginning. The word is used a lot and important to the storyline so it’s noteworthy. I assume it’s a British thing lol.
Overall, probably my third favorite of the five I have read from this author.

Thanks to NetGalley for this audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Good Bad Girl had me hooked, I couldn’t stop listening! A little confusing, as per most suspense, but overall it came together.

In true Alice Feeney fashion, this novel keeps you guessing until the very end…every time you think you’ve got an idea of what’s happening, a new twist throws a wrench in that.
The story starts with a baby stolen from a stroller, and decades later a murder in a care home is being investigated…and yet somehow, both crimes and the many suspects are all connected. The lives of Edith - a woman in a care home, Clio - her daughter, Patience - a worker in the care home, and Frankie - Patience’s mom, are all intertwined, but just how closely remains a mystery until the end.
Great for fans of thriller/mystery/suspense novels! Narrators Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine are fabulous, between the different accents, and variations to each character, making it easy to follow whose perspective we are hearing.
Thank you to Flatiron Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. This comes out 8/29!

Alice Feeney is fast becoming a favorite and an auto-buy author! So many quotable passages with depth of character. Once I sorted out the cast I thoroughly enjoyed the interactions. Excellent settings as well.

Once again, Alice Feeney delivers a masterfully written story with her signature remarkable employ of literary devices. The chapters identify character point of view. The detailed, descriptions create clear visualizations of the story being recounted. Great twist that you won’t see coming. A must read!
I had the good fortune of receiving the audiobook version of Good Bad Girl. The narration by Katherine Press; Stephanie Racine is clear, easy to follow and very well performed.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to enjoy the audiobook version of this ARC.

I love Alice Feeney so much but I have to say this one was a bit predictable around the half way point. I loved the story and how the characters intertwined with each other. The multiple POV was on point for the story telling and all the women were wildly different but Alice Feeney brought them all together in an interesting way. The story of the baby been stolen and coming back to present time was woven throughout the book. I did enjoy listening to this as an auto book and felt like the narrator did a wonderful job going between the characters

I have many good things to say
about Alice Feeney’s “Good Bad Girl”

It’s a sizzling domestic drama about the sorrows and traumas of deeply flawed mothers -
both young and old.

The book starts with a Mother’s Day child abduction.

Readers next learn about an alleged murder in a home for the elderly, occurring 20 years after the Mother's Day child abduction.

Are these two crimes connected?

If so, how?

Even though this book was slow-burn and disjointed at times, I was completely enamored with Alice Feeney’s compelling dialogue.

Yes, it was Alice Feeney's dialogue that elevated my star rating --- setting this book apart from other books in its genre.

Feeney's characterizations were brilliantly and intricately crafted; her prose was scintillating.

I listened to the audiobook read by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine.

Although I always love books with multiple narrators, I would have preferred two narrators that did not have similar voices.

Both narrators did a superb job with their narrations.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars.

Alice Feeney is one of my favorite authors. The best mystery books spend as much time getting to know the characters as they do unraveling the twists and turns of the story. Good Bad Girl follows four women. Patience who works at a nursing home. She also has a shady living arrangement in her temporary home over an art gallery. At her work lives Edith who believes she has been tricked into living at this care home by her good for nothing son and her daughter Clio. Clio is a therapist that has an extremely complicated relationship with her mother. One of Clio's clients is Frankie. Her daughter has been missing for over a year.

I requested the audio arc on NetGalley based on my experience with the author. I did not spend much time looking into the plot before reading. I highly recommend doing the same. I really enjoyed how the story unfolded. It has so many twists and turns,

Stephanie Racine's narration of the audiobook was so enjoyable!

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney is a quick and twisty domestic mystery. The story has alternating perspectives from Frankie, Edith, Clio, and Patience. It was a bit confusing getting the storylines straight at first, but once you do it becomes a quick read with a great ending.
Well crafted characters that are fun to figure out how they are all connected. A few twists I did not see coming.
The story kept my interest all the way through.
Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Good Bad Girl is a brilliant story about mothers and daughters and the often fraught relationships between them. It is also a story about good people and bad people and the fact that most people are both of those. All of the characters in this book have problems—and by problems I mean quirks and challenges in their everyday lives as well as deep, dark secrets. While I didn’t find myself drawn to any of them in particular, they were intriguing enough that I wanted to know how they fit together. While some of the relationships between them are evident from the start, readers will suspect that there is much more. Along the way there are plenty of twists and turns and red herrings; I was completely captivated by this story on audiobook. I loved Feeney’s last book, Daisy Darker, and Good Bad Girl is just as enthralling. Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this audiobook.

I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the advanced reading copy of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney.

I went into this book not knowing anything (how I personally like to go into thrillers). I would recommend you doing the same.

The audiobook narrator did a good job of telling the story but I found this to be one of the slower more predictable Alice Feeney novels I’ve read.

Without giving away too much, this novel follows a few different women’s perspectives about an intersecting story line about a baby stollen twenty years previously and an murderous event that happens in a care centre. Edith, Clio, and Patience are about to discover the truth more than just one mystery.

Thanks NetGalley for the free advanced copy! I loved listening to this audio book! Alice Feeney is a very clever author! I loved the characters & the storyline. I found myself thinking I knew exactly what was going on & where the story was going multiple times & each time there was a twist I didn’t necessarily see coming!

Very intriguing and shocking. Bit hard to follow at first with all the characters but makes sense by the midpoint. Would recommend. Full review on instagram

Alice Feeney books are always a treat and fast- paced thrillers sure to please most mystery fans. I saw the twists coming early on but still enjoyed the ride.
Highly recommended.

I felt that Good Bad Girl
Was an okay read I had high hopes but really struggled with the time jumps.