Beverley Jones – The Beach House @bevjoneswriting @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK #TheBeachHouse #BookReview

‘The Beach House’ by Beverley Jones is a crime thriller that I loved the look of just from the cover, the blurb drew me in some more so I felt I just needed to be a part of this blog tour.

Grace Jensen has the perfect life. One she has worked hard to make for herself and her family. The day comes that she arrives home to her beautiful beachfront house in Lookout Bay to find a dead body covered in blood on her kitchen floor. There isn’t just a body in her kitchen…there are things that have been placed on her kitchen worktops. These things tell Grace that after seventeen years of creating a life in which her past has no part, it is on its way to catch up with her. She has kept what she did then to herself, not even confiding in her husband Elias. Grace is prepared to do anything so it stays that way.

A story that made me wish I could pack up and go to the Oregan coast! I felt like I could really be there. Beverley Jones has captured the landscape of Oregan that well. Her characters, well, Grace was, as weird as it sounds, a woman who I quite enjoyed learning about. A woman who was single-minded and determined enough to carve a new life, a successful one at that, she won’t want to give that up for anything. A woman that I won’t forget in a hurry anyway. Grace’s secrets are revealed little by little as the story unfolds. The tension was almost palpable as I flipped the pages, impatient to discover what was so serious that she had to move so far away, from Wales to America far! I was enraptured with Grace and this story!

A dark and intriguing story that is full of secrets and lies, among other things. At under two hundred pages a relatively small book, it is packed with twists and turns. A compelling read that I loved.

Thanks to Emma Welton of Damp Pebbles Blog Tours and Beverley Jones for the copy of this book.