This psychological thriller was a right enjoyable page turner.. the characters were interesting and the setting was fantastic. A good twist at the end that you would never expect. I have read 2 books by this author and I will be looking out for more in the future. Excellent
Thank you netgalley for the opportunity to read this

Four friends and their family are on their annual holiday together. This year is different though as Kate finds out her husband is keeping a secret from her. He's having an affair and it's with one of her best friends, but which one?
Rowan, Jenny, Izzy and Kate have all been friends since University, but this holiday will test Kate to her limits. As the families keep up their bravados, we start to learn that secrets are held in each family, cumulating in one huge turn of events that no could have guessed was coming.

Well that was quite the ride! Four friends, their children and one reader go to what they think to be a nice quiet holiday at a villa in France. Nothing is as it seems! This reader was expecting one twist and got quite a few more than that!

The opening as they reach the villa is all sunshine and light. The descriptions of the area and the landscape is stunning and you’re immediately thrown into the heart of the French countryside. You get that holiday buzz just like those in the novel….but then, like those twisty, winding roads, it goes in directions you don’t expect.

The setting is stunning - Beziers, Autignac, fields and vineyards as long as the eye can see. Languedoc is going to be getting more visitors after this. Maybe not groups of friends in villas though ;) (The villa is fictional, I did check, but there are many real ones just like it.

You know when friends get together at a nice location and there’s a birthday to celebrate that something is going to go wrong, but it was hard to guess what exactly. It all starts with a text message Kate finds on her husband’s phone. And oh my word,what a journey we go on after that. Kate thinks everything and knows nothing and when she does find something out, nothing is as it seems. This was a puzzle indeed but I loved it! What a thrill to wander through the rooms of that villa, creeping behind the vines, hiding in door ways and listening to people talking underneath balconies…. Then there was all that bushy headland and mountains to get lost in, to invite someone for a walk so you could ‘talk’. An example of where the location ramps up the tension and acts as a major character itself.

Remember that text? It’s from someone on the holiday…and that’s not a spoiler as it’s mentioned at the start. But that ramps things up even more! Remote location, people you think you know….

It makes me never want to go on a group holiday though! Haha maybe don’t read this if you are going on one anytime soon. You might be looking at them in a new light! And never let them take their children. They get lost and hide and seek becomes very eerie when the light fades.

It starts nice and slow and then I found I couldn’t stop reading and I was getting faster and faster to find out what was going on.My mind was going as fast as Kate’s although in a much nicer way.

I could hear the bushes rustle when reading this and wanted to look over my shoulder from time to time. A very exciting read!

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book. I really enjoyed it and I liked the twists that kept me guessing right to the end.

This book is fabulous and the best TM Logan book so far and that is a huge compliment considering how great and successful Lies was.
This is a wonderful holiday read and the perfect thriller. It’s delightfully dark with plenty of twists to keep you guessing. I’d strongly recommend this one.

Seven days, three families and one killer! Four women who’ve been best friends for years have arranged to spend a week in a luxurious French villa with their families. But it appears all is not as it seems. Secrets, lies and a yearning to find the truth are at the heart of this book along with someone prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden.

This book is well written and kept me entertained throughout. It runs at a steady pace gradually building momentum as it goes.

Thank you to NetGalley, Bonnier Zaffre and the author for the chance to review.

This book was gripping from the get go. The description of the villa and surroundings was so wonderful, I could feel myself basking in the sun with Kate and co. The storyline progresses really quickly but you're able to keep up despite the fast pace. I didn't see the ending coming whatsoever. Great thriller, I just wish I'd saved it for my Holiday!

Four women who have known each other from fresher days at university meet up for a holiday to celebrate their 40th birthdays. They take their husbands and children with them to France. We are led to believe very early on, that one of them suspects her husband is having an affair with one of her close friends. As we we go through the week we see each event within this context. It sets up tension and intrigue. The relationships between the children merit more development.
At the outset one feels it going to follow a well trodden path but in fact the ending shows a unique turn of events.
Definitely an author who will grow

This was supposed to be a wonderful holiday for four university friends and their families. Through Logan's various twists and turns, we see Kate challenge each of her friends. Which one is having an affair with Sean, loyal husband and family man?

I particularly enjoyed the way that the book focused on each of the families and their relationships, not just Kate and Sean.

I read this book whilst on holiday and it kept me guessing right to the last page. This is my first book by the author and I will look forward to reading his previous two books now.

With many thanks to the author TM Logan, NetGalley and Publishers Bonnier Zaffre for a copy of this ebook in exchange for an independent review.

This s an ok read if you are looking for a holiday read, but I felt it could have been written a little better. About halfway through I lost all empathy for any of the characters, they were all completely self absorbed and irresponsible. I found it hard to believe that anyone would behave this way, and as such struggle through this title, Im sorry to say.

This is a good holiday read. It’s about friends on holiday in a fabulous villa in France. They are all with their families and it’s a story of secrets and lies.

It does meander and is quite a slow read, but, if you’re reading on a beach or by a pool, who cares?

Solid 3*

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to preview.

After being rather disappointed with a previous T M Logan story I was interested to read a 2nd. I really enjoyed this one, the characters were given depth and each one their own time to feature in the story. I initially thought it was a straight forward story given the initial few chapters and that I as the reader would just have to guess which of the friends the main character suspected. However there is much more to this story with a good ‘twist’. Disappointingly most of the action happens in the last 15% so quite a slow burner til then but the setting and descriptions of the holiday and villa are enjoyable. Also it seems a little far fetched how the main character suddenly pieces all the story together but it definitely works.

Great read, four old uni friends go on holiday to a villa in the south of France, taking along their families to celebrate turning 40 - sounds idyllic...

That is until Kate finds a text message on her husbands phone from Coralgirl alluding to clandestine meetings with the last text reading 'We'll sort it out when we're in France'....

Kate is in France, with three of her best friends one of whom she suspects is having an affair with her husband. It blows Kate's mind and whilst she tries to work out which of her so called mates is having a fling with her hubby, she soon discovers that they are all acting shady and hiding something, so it might not be as easy as she thought to unmask the betrayer!

Thanks to Nethgalley for the opportunity to review this book, this is my honest opinion

The Holiday is one of those deliciously satisfying summer reads that evoke those long sultry days and steamy August nights on the Med. As everyone knows group holidays can be fraught especially one involving a quartet of friends with a decades long history. All of the characters are wonderfully flawed yet extremely well written and thought through. Will their past actions catch up with them?
A sense of danger lingers on every page and consequently it’s a pressure cooker of a week’s holiday tightly woven together. I raced through it over 24 hours. Needless to say I loved it and as it’s my first outing with this author will read more by him. It has put me off going on holiday with friends for life – this is a compliment to the author’s writing skills!
There often tends to be THE novel of the summer I suspect this one could be it.

would give this book 3.5 stars. It centres on four friends who used to holiday together, but one year t stops- so for their 40th birthdays they decide to reinstate the tradition and have a big holiday but this time with their husbands and children in tow. An amazing house and location, great company, it should be perfect but we are quickly thrown into a bit of a mystery- as Kate discovers messages on her husbands phone which suggest one of her friends is embroiled in an affair with her husband. Who is it? Which one? As kate tries to uncover the truth the teenage children are all over the place, they have their own things going on- as teenagers do. Ultimately the Holiday ends in someone’s murder, or was it an accident? And if not, who is to blame? A good read, that at certain points had my heart racing and scared to read on, as the danger felt all too real.

Enjoyed this book. A tale of simmering secrets, past and present. Who is telling the truth? Who can you trust? I enjoyed the setting of rural France and the villa sounds amazing, it certainly brighten up a dreary Sunday afternoon reading.

The holiday, as you’d expect from the title is about a holiday taken by three families plus a friend, all coming together for a week in a beautiful villa in France. The four women are friends from university days, their friendship surviving marriages and motherhood. This is the first time husbands and children have been included in a get together and it quickly becomes obvious that this is probably not going to be the relaxing,happy holiday it is supposed to be.
Kate is with husband Sean and their children Lucy and Daniel. They are joined by Russ and Rowena along with their spoilt daughter Odette plus Jennifer and Alistair and their unlikeable sons Jake and Ethan. The final person to join these holiday makers is Izzy, the only singleton. When Kate discovers messages from an unknown female on Sean’s phone she immediately assumes he is having an affair with one of the other women in the villa. And so the story begins.
This is a novel exploring many issues; friendship and trust between partners and what can happen when that trust is put to the test. It is also about lies and betrayal and what lengths a parent will go to to protect their offspring. The problem of when and how to let children become more independent is another theme throughout this novel and how difficult it can be for a mother to loosen the apron strings. This particularly applies to Jennifer who is a ‘helicopter’ parent in the extreme. The influence of social media is also tackled, primarily the negative effects it can have on teenagers.
I like how the author, through Kate, casts suspicion on all three women, switching between them so the reader is constantly unsure who is the likely candidate. All characters are well drawn and believable although not many are particularly likeable.
The Holiday is fast paced enough to keep the reader intrigued with plenty of twists and an ending I didn’t expect. I absolutely loved this book and recommend packing it in your suitcase if you’re off on your holidays. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

4 best friends from uni getting together with their families for a week in the south of France to celebrate their 40th’s- what could go wrong? For the past 15-years or so, they have only seen the superficial lives projected- everything looked so wonderful. However, it’s only when they actually spend ‘real’ time that they really see the cracks that each of them have attempted to hide and the secrets that they all have.
I like the way the chapters are told by the individual characters rather than just Kate, who is the first character we meet. She discovers on the first day that her husband Sean appears to be having an affair and it could be any one of her three friends. As the week progresses, the temperature rises as does the tension. Deffo a page turner, struggled to put the book down.

Friends from university days, there husbands and children decided to go to France for a holiday.
It should have been a time of catching up with each other, gettting to know there children and remembering the days when they were young and carefree,
But the holiday did not turn out as expected, and a tragedy happened.
This was not a bad story great for a holiday read, and had a good ending,
Not the type of book I usually read.

TM Logan is fast emerging as a key name in the suspenseful thriller genre! A great read that will keep you guessing until the end!