Even although 2022 has given us some nice thrillers and mysteries, our top spot goes to Alice Feeney’s new novel, Daisy Darker. Filled with thriller, homicide and one unforgettable household, this novel is a must-read!
Feeney is just not new to the world of bestselling thrillers. Her first 4 novels offered hundreds of thousands of copies the world over and has been translated into 25 languages.
Her newest novel, nevertheless, is her best by far. In Daisy Darker, Feeney tackles the darkness that lurks behind seemingly excellent households and the fear that lurks behind white picket fences…
FEENEY’S ‘DAISY DARKER’ ECHOES AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY
Feeney’s storytelling resembles the model of the thriller queen herself, Agatha Christie. Daisy Darker is a contemporary twist on Christie’s well-known And Then There Were None novel, however Feeney tells a good darker story.
As an avid thriller and thriller fan, I’m fairly good at guessing the endings of mysteries. It takes so much to actually catch me off guard, however Feeney’s thriller caught me by full shock. As good because the twist was, the opposite components within the novel like Feeney’s lovely writing and her unbelievable characters have been what actually cemented this guide as a 2022 favorite.
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‘DAISY DARKER’ FAVOURITE QUOTES
We spend our youth constructing sandcastles of ambition, then watch as life blows sands of doubt over our fastidiously crafted turrets of needs and desires, till we will now not see them in any respect. We discovered to settle as a substitute for flattened lives, residing inside prisons of compromise.
All households have their very own non-public routines and secret language, and all households know easy methods to harm one another.
We make moments with our households. Sometimes we sew them collectively over time, to make extra of them than there have been. We share them and maintain on to them collectively as in the event that they have been treasure, even after they begin to rust.
The hassle with little white lies is that they generally develop as much as be large darkish ones.
‘DAISY DARKER’: SYNOPSIS
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists, Alice Feeney, returns…with a household reunion that results in homicide.
After years of avoiding one another, Daisy Darker’s complete household is assembling for Nana’s eightieth birthday celebration in Nana’s crumbling gothic home on a tiny tidal island. When the tide is available in, they are going to be reduce off from the remaining of the world for eight hours.
The household arrives, every of them harboring secrets and techniques. Then on the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is discovered lifeless. And an hour later, the subsequent member of the family follows.
Trapped on an island the place somebody is killing them one after the other, the Darkers should reckon with their current thriller in addition to their previous secrets and techniques, earlier than the tide is available in and all is revealed.
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
According to her website, Alice Feeney is a New York Times bestselling writer and journalist. Her debut novel, Sometimes I Lie, was a world bestseller, has been translated into over twenty languages. Her novel His & Hers is being tailored for display by Jessica Chastain’s manufacturing firm Freckle Films.
Rock Paper Scissors, her fourth novel, can be being made right into a TV series for Netflix by the producer of The Crown. Her newest novel, Daisy Darker, has additionally turn into a bestseller worldwide.
Daisy Darker is revealed by Pan Macmillan Publishers and is offered from Exclusive Books shops for R348.