Blog tour: Review - My Girl by Jack Jordan

My Girl by Jack Jordan 
Publisher: JJP 
Release date: 4 July 2016 
Rating: *****
Back cover blurb: Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man. She has nothing left to live for… until she finds her husband’s handgun hidden in their house. Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter’s death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband’s secrets. But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn’t hers to gamble – she belongs to me. From the bestselling author of Anything for Her, Jack Jordan's My Girl is the new chilling thriller that you won't want to miss.

Before I started My Girl, every time I saw it on my kindle I started singing 'My Girl' in my head. Let's just start by saying, I'm definitely not singing that any more...

When I read Jack Jordan's debut novel, Anything For Her I realised that he was an author to watch. My Girl has now made Jack one of my go-to thriller authors, and I can't wait to see what he has up his sleeve for his next novel.

Paige Dawson is a broken woman, A grieving widow; her husband has committed suicide and a childless mother; her daughter was brutally murdered ten years ago and her killer never found. Her life has been shattered in the worst imaginable way.

Perhaps understandably Paige drinks a lot. Her friends and family are worried about her, particularly as her behaviour becomes more and more erratic. But what does she have to live for?

Paige's Father, is desperate to help her, and as he helps her clear out her husbands things, in the hope she might begin to move on, Paige finds a gun in the hidden compartment of a filing cabinet.

Why on earth did her husband have a gun?

Did he have a double life she knew nothing about? Or was he just trying to protect them both after the death of their daughter?

Paige knows that if she decides to delve into the reasons behind her husbands secret then she may find something more than she bargained for but nothing could prepare her for what she is about to uncover.

I can't say much more without starting to give away some of the plot, but know this; My Girl is a dark, disturbing novel that grips you from its first page and doesn't let you go until its final sentence.

My Girl is available from 4 July. You can pre-order it now via Amazon online
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Thank You to Jack who kindly invited me to take part in the official blog tour.

Blog tour: Review - Anything For Her by Jack Jordan

Anything For Her by Jack Jordan
Publisher: JJP
Release date: 31 May 2016
Rating: *****
Back cover blurb: Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you. Louise Leighton’s life has fallen apart, all because of one fateful night. Her husband is an adulterer, her sister is his mistress, and soon, Louise will lose everything she owns. But she never imagined she would lose her daughter. Eighteen-year-old Brooke Leighton is missing. It’s up to Louise and the Metropolitan Police to find her. Has Brooke run away? Or has she been taken against her will? And can Louise aid the investigation without mentioning the night where all of her troubles began? If she mentions that night, she will incriminate her daughter for heinous crimes. But if she doesn’t, she may never find Brooke; and if she has been abducted, the person who took her may come for Louise, too. Sometimes the past comes back to kill you. 

   

Anything For Her is Jack Jordan's brilliant debut novel and I'm not entirely sure how, but I missed its journey into the literary world last year. And now I'm kicking myself!

The novel opens with Louise Leighton's discovery of her husband's affair with her sister. Louise would be the first to acknowledge that things between her husband and herself haven't been perfect recently. 

Although she is left devastated by the betrayal, Louise can't help but think she deserves it and should have seen it coming. Her teenage daughter Brooke understands her Mothers reasoning but doesn't understand her need to leave the family home immediately.

Having fleed to their country house Louise is relieved to be away from her philandering husband and tells herself she just needs to get herself together before going back for her children, her daughter Brooke and younger son Dominic.

But someone is determined to make Louise's life more hellish than it already is. When Brooke goes missing after visiting her mother Louise knows it is some sort of personal vendetta but she doesn't fully understand who is after her or why.

As the investigation into Brooke's disappearance starts and Louise becomes becomes clear that they will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Anything For Her is one of those novels once you have started that you simply cannot put down.

Anything For Her is available to buy now from Amazon online.

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  Thank You to Jack who kindly invited me to take part in the official blog tour.