Jacqueline Sutherland – The Coffin Club @RandomTTours @writerjaq @PointBlankCrime #TheCoffinClub #RandomThingsTours

I’m happy to say I have The Coffin Club by Jacqueline Sutherland on the blog today, on behalf of Random Things Tours. Thanks to Point Blank and Anne Cater for my copy of the book.

Some people would kill for a second chance.

Kat is rebuilding her life. After losing her husband in a tragic accident, moving to the countryside is her chance to start again.

Encouraged by her new and only friend Ginny, Kat joins New Horizons, dubbed the Coffin Club by its members. And that’s how she meets Nico. Instantly drawn to each other, Nico seems like Kat’s perfect match. He is kind, caring, handsome and, most importantly, a father to five-year-old Magdalena. This could be Kat’s shot at the one thing she has always wanted: to be a mother.

BUT SOMETIMES BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR…

A debut psychological thriller, The Coffin Club by Jacqueline Sutherland is a book that hooked me immediately. The cover alone screams ‘read me’, the synopsis just finished of the magnetic hold I found with The Coffin Club.

We meet Kat, making a new life for herself in the countryside after the loss of her husband. She joins a club, dubbed ‘The Coffin Club’. Somewhere bereaved people meet up. While there she meets Nico, and who ticks all her boxes…including her children box. He has a daughter, Magdalena, who Kat immediately falls on love with. Not everything is always as it seems and we see Kat beginning to suspect that Nico’s motives may not be as straight forward as she first thought.

Told from the point of view of Kat as she is telling her dead husband the story. This is a story about obsession, love and loss too. A sinister, dark and suspenseful story that has twists I couldn’t forsee. A book with short, snappy chapters that keeps the story flowing so fast and created a ‘one more chapter’ read, all the way until the conclusion.

The characters are all unreliable in this book apart from Magdalena. Kat herself is one who kept making me change my opinion of her. At certain times I felt for her, at others, she was obsessive and selfish. I swung from liking,to hating her so much and then Nico kept me guessing as well. What were his motivations? Was it money or not?

As the story unfolds, the suspense builds so surreptitiously that it seems to appear from nowhere “Bam”, right down like a ton of bricks, bringing the tension to the top which held me in an almost vice like grip.

Jacqueline Sutherland has written this thriller so expertly that it just flowed so well and entertained me with plenty of red herrings as well as the twists, turns. I never had a dull moment at all. Her characters are so real, flawed and believable that it just made this story so immersive. I lived and breathed with these characters for the time it took me to read it.

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