Gosh I loved this one as much as THE LION'S DEN and that is SAYING SOMETHING!!! I absolutely adore books set in Greece and this one did not let me down. I wanted a bottle of mythos and a greek salad while reading this unputdownable, twisty thriller. And WOW did the ending get me all riled up!!

Starting with the good, this book has atmosphere for days. The Greek islands and mountains of Sweden will make you want to book a plane ticket asap. Beyond that this book was a slow build to nowhere, ending with more questions than answers. If you like your thrillers to come full circle and all loose ends to be wrapped up in a pretty bow, this isn’t it.

Loved loved loved this book!!!! This was a great read and I could not put it down! I think the story also being told from Gias manuscript definitely added another dimension to the story. Beautiful setting-I actually could visualize being there. I enjoyed all the characters and think the storyline was really well developed and beautifully written. Definitely one of my favorite books. Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group-Ballantine and Katherine Wood for the opportunity to read and review this wonderful book! Hoping there is a sequel……….⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you Netgalley and Bantam Dell for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review

PHEW what a read!!! I was invested in this one from the moment it started. A mystery/thriller that is PERFECT for a beach or hanging out by the water read. I mean the main setting is in Greece so while you're outside you can just imagine that you're living your best life there. You'll meet Abby, Benny, and Gia as the main characters in this book but more so Abby and Gia since they are long time best friends.

The story starts off with an introduction to Abby's lifestyle and how her relationship with Gia has started to become ehhh due to adulting. Abby and Gia have a history, not only are they childhood best friends but both were involved in a tragedy. So fast forward about 12 years and Gia invites her brother (Benny) and Abby to celebrate her birthday only she's nowhere to be found. So of course both of them start to become suspicious and there goes the hunt for Gia.

HOWEVER there's so much more to the story than just Gia going missing. Gia married her husband after a short time (3 months) and there's more than what meets the eye to her new husband. The book is separated into Gia's manuscript (her perspective from the book she's writing), Gia, and Abby. I highly recommend if you're looking for a twisty, fast-paced thriller that leaves you perplexed and wondering what the heck is going on (in a good way). What was holding me back from the full 5 stars was the lack of explanation so in a way you're left with a cliffhanger but not really more so your on interpretation of what happened. I like to know exact facts!!

Overall, WHAT a captivating setting, well-crafted characters, and fast-paced plot. I will be recommending this book to my friends as soon as it's out and I'm so excited to hear about their reactions.

Lifelong best friends Gia and Abby have been adrift lately after Gia married Garrett a month into their relationship shortly after Gia's wealthy father passed away. Abby was gifted education and opportunity by Gia's family as the daughter of their beloved cook, but now a lawyer she couldn't just jet off to Denmark for the impromptu wedding and wouldn't have even if she could. Set mostly on a gorgeous island in Greece where Gia and Garrett are preparing to sell the estate she inherited, their honeymoon phase takes dark and twisty turn when a young wealthy couple arrives in the local cafe, stranded due to yacht issues, and Gia invites them to crash at the estate. Later, when a getaway to Sweden for a Northern Lights viewing trip for Gia's birthday with her brother Benny and Abby goes awry, the past comes racing back. When I hit about the halfway point I was thinking it was wrapping up until I checked the page count, but wow the second half really takes you on a wild ride and makes you question everything. The conclusion was ambiguous enough that while it wasn't necessarily a cliff hanger, it could definitely be setting up a sequel. Which I would read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher,
Random House Publishing Group-Ballentine for this book.

Enjoyed the plot, characters and beautiful setting. I felt they were all suburply done. The story moved along sluggishly in the beginning, but I soon found myself immersed in the story. I was continuously looking for clus and eager to find out what was going to be revealed next.

The finale will forever having me questioning???

Highly recommend.

I loved this book! It was the perfect escape for the cold January I read it in. The descriptions of the Greek isles were so on point. Throw in twists and turns that you don’t necessarily see coming and it’s the perfect beach read. Or fireplace read in my case.

Both Gia and Abby were characters I cared about. Gia married Garrett very quickly, much to Abby’s consternation. The fact that Gia is an heiress plays into her worry as well. Add in a suspicious death years ago when both girls were teenagers, and a couple who just appear out of no where and stay w Gia and Garrett at their home. Are they who they say they are?

Recommended for all public libraries.

Read this book with my bookclub and we all really enjoyed it! I personally loved the first half of this book, rich people behaving badly, however towards the end it just got repetitive and I just didn't love the ending. I do love this author and will continue reading everything she writes.

Not the best, but not the worst book I have read. This is definitely a slow-burn thriller/mystery. The beginning was good, but as the story went on I cared less and less. I'm also not a big fan or open endings so that also is skewing y rating I think.

I have always loved books that have your mind set, thinking one way and one way only, and then before you know it, you are thrown so far off course. This story was delivered with perfection. The setting was in beautiful, exotic locations thoroughly detailed, allowing the reader to fully see everything in their head as they're going. Each character, whether they were likable or so highly despised, were so well written and developed, making the reader care that much more about the outcome of the story. Then, there is the story within a story in the form of a manuscript to top off this meticulously written novel. This was a great, well-paced, brilliantly executed story that I absolutely recommend to my fellow readers. Four and a half stars.

Thank you, Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group, for this ARC.

From the beginning I was hooked! It's hard to put down a book when you truly don't trust anyone. I loved all the placed they visited and their long friendship. It was a combination of a thriller and a mystery.

Thank you @netgalley for an advanced reader copy of this book. What a twisty thriller it turned out to be!

Ladykiller follows the story of two childhood best friends - Gia, a wealthy heiress whose father has just passed away and her best friend, Abby, who was the family’s chef’s daughter. The hierarchy of friendship never seemed to matter to either of them, until Gia is supposed to meet up with Abby and her brother for a vacation, and she never shows up. Did Gia’s new, relatively unknown husband have something to do with her disappearance?

Told from two POV’s - Abby’s fairly straightforward narrative and Gia’s manuscript of her memoir, this book really takes a stab at creating reader distrust of the narrator. Who is telling the truth? Who is making things up to protect themselves? I enjoyed how the perspective switches and the ending is makes for a great discussion, especially for a book club!

This is a really good book!!! Lots of intrigue and suspense, and characters you don't know if you want to love or hate!! Great personality development, and I was hooked from the beginning. Ending does leave you a bit frustrated though, but fits in with the rest of the drama.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for allowing me to read this ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Bantam for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

2.5 Stars

Gia and Abby were unlikely best friends... Gia a wealthy heiress and Abby the daughter of the family's chef. Years later when Gia does not show up for a family reunion, Abby and Gia's brother, Benny race to her home in Greece but are shocked when all they find is Gia's manuscript and no sign of the heiress. In her unfinished writing Gia details a chilling mystery when her and her husband meet a strange couple. The story reveals the events leading up to her disappearance but what happened to Gia and where is she?

I was excited to read this novel based on the great cover, the description and the beautiful setting in Greece but the reality didn't hold up. The story is an incredibly slow burn, being told from Abby's POV and Gia's manuscript. I found Wood's writing style to be choppy and at times overly descriptive which disrupted the flow. It was also highly sexualized which seemed unnecessary for the story. While the plot was interesting and had moments of intrigue ultimately it left too many loose ends and no you will not find out who the lady killer is. Very unsatisfactory and I recommend grabbing a different poolside thriller.

I liked the locations in the book--largely Greece but there was some jetsetting in there. Heiress, best friends, mystery--what isn't there to love? My big issue was how slow the book was to get going and then when we finally got to an exciting part it sort of fizzled quickly. I don't think this is the kind of book that should have an ambiguous ending. It wasn't bad but it wasn't the fun beach/vacation book I was hoping it would be.

This book had me frantically reading to find the answers to the questions the author had placed in my mind. An excellent story line, the mysterious disappearance of Gia, is told from two different viewpoints. The manuscript of a book that Gia has left behind is all that holds the clues to help her best friend find Gia. As Abby and Gia's brother, Ben, begin their search for Gia they are astonished by events revealed in Gia's book. With so many twists and turns, will they ever find Gia? And did they ever really know the real Gia?

I was very impressed with the characters, story line, and the flow of the book. It held my interest until the very end of the book. The ending was not one that I expected, and I was disappointed that I did not feel closure at the end. But with that being said, it was still a very good read, and I would recommend it to others.

Thank you so much Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for the opportunity to read and advance copy of this book.

Thank you Random House and Netgalley for this eARC, these opinions are my own. I love a good mystery! Abby and Gia are best friends, and Abby is so close with Gia’s family that Gia’s dad even paid for her schooling. Gia invites her brother Benny and Abby to a getaway in Sweden, but when they arrive Gia is no where to be found. They head to Greece where she was but all they find is an unfinished manuscript that explains the events leading up to Gia’s disappearance. Can they find where Gia’s gone? Can they even trust what Gia wrote? Also Abby’s getting emails from someone who might know what she did. A lot of twists and turns in this one to keep me intrigued! And the places they travel are so well depicted and I just want to be there! Katherine Wood makes me not trust anyone and I consumed the book trying to figure out what was going on. Highly recommend!

Didn’t love but also didn’t hate it. I enjoyed it! I loved how descriptive it was in the setting. I feel like I was left with more questions than answers at the end though. I don’t think we really knew what exactly happened? But I was engaged with the story the entire time.

Thank you netgally for my copy!

Ladykiller by Katherine Wood was a good book to read if you like thrillers! When one girl disappears and her friend receives a manuscript, her friend must dig deep to discover what happened.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book early. P

Thank you NetGalley for granting me access to this book in exchange for an honest review!

Anything that starts with: "an heiress goes missing" is right up my alley. I love nothing more than rich people gone bad, and in completely unordinary circumstances!
This story revolves around Gia and Abby, who have been best friends since they were young. Gia, the heiress and Abby is the daughter of Gia's family chef. The story meets the family twelve years after a tragedy for Gia's birthday bash, with all the usual rich suspects. Unfortunately, Gia never shows up. The race to find her after the crew, including Abby and Benny (Gia's brother) find a mysterious unfinished manuscript. Where is Gia? And will the manuscript bring truths to light?

There are two different POVs - Abby and Gia's manuscript. About midway through, I became slightly bored of the whole premise. I wanted more depth, more mysterious suspects, more glitz and glam, and yes, I predicted the ending, though I was bored with it.