I Will Make You Pay starts out on an ordinary Wednesday, journalist Alice Henderson is in a meeting with co-workers to discuss their latest projects. During the meeting, Alice receives a chilling threat that she at first dismisses. However, when she receives another threat the following Wednesday, Alice must take things seriously. Who is threatening her and why is it every Wednesday?

Alice's boyfriend hires a private investigator, Matthew Hill, to protect Alice. But what happens when the police and Matthew are unable to protect her?

I Will Make You Pay was executed perfectly. The story-line was plausible, weaving together the narrative of Alice and her stalker, up until the very end. A must read for the fall!

Matthew Hill returns in his clever supporting role of private investigator. It's an unusual take, but I'm liking it.

I Will Make You Pay gives a great story of a journalist who finds herself the focus of a threatening call, which soon becomes clear is the act of someone obsessed with her. The mystery of who unfolds, with a number of gripping twists and turns. How can the police get to the bottom of this? That's where Matthew Hill comes in.

Driscoll has set-up a very clever character who, like his job suggests, take a very discreet role in these stories. The stories are written much more like standalone books, with a perspective heavily dominated by the person at the centre of the mystery. It works well and does make them each stand completely on their own merits, and making them far richer, and darker than when the focus is on the investigator. It's a subtle, but rewarding, nuance and one that significantly elevates the story.

Oh yes, the story! It's a pretty easy read and will feel familiar to other books by Driscoll, which means it also delivers that superb build-up and a satisfying conclusion. It's hard to say much more because she is a very efficient writer, making sure every chapter has some purpose in building the tension and adding to the climax. Which also means that's about all I can say without delving into heavy spoilers. Suffice to say it's well balanced and enjoyable.

A wonderful little mystery with some enjoyable light touches and some emotion themes. I can't wait for the next one!

This book is well written but it was not a fast-paced thriller in any regard. The initial threating phone call from the stalker was not frightening to me so I had trouble building fear from it. It was odd and with a voice, changer may be a bit creepy, but the threat itself... was not scary. I think the only thing that was a bit eerie was just the idea that one day of the week would be a day of dread since the stalker only focused his stalking on Wednesdays.

This story is broken into short scenes from the POV of the victim, Alice, the investigator, Matthew, and Him, who we assume is the stalker. Honestly, the best character in the book I felt the most emotion for was the stalker. To the point that I wanted to follow the poor boy's journey to revenge for his abuses. It was much more intriguing and he was so vulnerable and raw.

I stuck with this one because I was hoping the connection between Alice and her stalker would be clever or unexpected but I dreaded that I knew the twist very early. It was too obvious. Still, I won't say I didn't enjoy the book at all. It was a fast read in the sense that chapters flowed swiftly but I found that I could not understand why the book spent so much time with the private investigator character Matthew and his two-year-old getting ready for work. It had nothing to do with the plot but I kept thinking for some reason it did. I kept wondering what was going to happen to that man's little girl and how did it connect? It didn't. And that was odd. Eventually, that made me feel like these separate POVs were telling different stories. I didn't really care about his domestic chores by the time I realized it had zero to do with the plot.

As for the main character, Alice, I did like her character and the professional and private world she was encased in. Overall this is not a thriller. It's a commentary on stalking, which is a valid and serious subject. I think the scenes written about Matthew's fatherhood struggles were endearing but useless and really just one of those scenes would have set the character up. He didn't need to overcome the terrible twos while hunting a stalker. BTW, it is also nice when a detective or investigator actually solves some part of the mystery during the book and I kept waiting for Matthew who we are to believe is smart to connect something. He never really did other than to have a slight tiny hunch their suspect wasn' the guy. I like when the competence of a character is prooven in clues and evidence.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

Alice is a reporter on a provincial newspaper. One Wednesday she receives an alarming phone call but brushes it aside as a crank call. However it happens again and on a Wednesday as before. It soon becomes clear that she is being stalked - but as to why is a mystery and why do things keep happening on a Wednesday. Her boyfriend is very supportive and decides to employ an ex police officer, who is now a private investigator, to protect Alice on a Wednesday.
It soon becomes clear that Alice has a hidden past, could that be the connect to what is happening now?
This is a fast paced mystery, well told and engaging, I couldn’t put it down and wanted more. I did not see the end coming.!

I could not put this book down! So many twists and turns, just when you think you have it figured out, you don't. Written in the style of Alfred Hitchcock thriller it is an enjoyable read. One to really keep the mind spinning!

This was a good book! I enjoyed all the twists and turns and trying to figure out who was stalking her and why. It was a fun ride and I could barely put this book down. Another hit from Theresa. Can’t wait for the next! Thanks NetGalley.

Oh, I LOVED this one! Creepy, mysterious, addictive, just everything I hoped it would be! I first found this author through Kindle Unlimited and was very excited to see she had a new one. This book had some serious stalkerish vibes to it, which is probably the reason why I loved it so much. I suggest anyone who loves a good mystery novel to pick this one up when it publishes! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my advance reader's copy.

What a great stalker mystery story! You will be mesmerized by this book.

A journalist gets a terrifying phone call threatening to cut her throat with a cheese wire. The voice has been disguised and she has no idea who the caller might be. This one is brilliantly written and has you on the edge of your seat trying to figure it out. The characters are believable and the story pace is constant. I loved it and think you will also. This is the first Teresa Driscoll book I have read but it will not be the last.

I wish to thank Net Galley for allowing me to read this book. The book will be available October 10,2019.
I have voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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I received an ARC of this riveting mystery. It is a story of a woman haunted by a stalker. It is full of twists that kept me in suspense until the end.

She does it again. All the stars! Absolutely loved this book! The story flows, the characters are fascinating and I couldn't put it down . Highly recommended.

3.5*

Who doesn’t enjoy a good stalker story? This has it all. A background story which is totally unexpected. So many clues as to who the starker is only for your mind changed again and again. The terror - it gets into your bones.

Great book

With thanks to the publishers and author for ARC in return for an honest review

A psychological thriller from Teresa Driscoll. Though the final twist was good, it was difficult to connect with the main character. Being a journalist, she fails to see through the men in her life. As the author says though fear is a terrible thing, courage and love are more powerful. The positive note is good.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4

First. I discovered after finishing I Will Make You Pay that it is part of a series starring PI Matthew Hill and DI Melanie Sanders. It reads perfectly well as a stand-alone; however, I enjoyed the Hill and Sanders characters so much that I will go back to find earlier books. This particular outing follows a small-town newspaper reporter named Alice who has a stalker who only threatens her on Wednesdays. The majority of the novel is told from Alice's POV. The other chapters are from the POV of Him, the presumed stalker. When the police seem unable to help Alice, her boyfriend Tom hires PI Hill to shadow Alice on Wednesdays in an attempt to identify and trap the stalker.

Driscoll did a terrific job ratcheting up the reader's sense of Alice's fear and paranoia, and overall delivered a strong storyline. I was also surprised by the final chapters when we learn who Him is. However, my issue with the book was that while the stalker's motivation was clear, his methodology of obtaining revenge was, I thought, convoluted. It just took away from my overall enjoyment of the novel.

Thanks to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! This was a page turner! Definitely didn’t see the ending coming, but I enjoyed trying to figure out who the bad guy was. I highly recommend this book. Very well written and kept my interest.

This was a read with an interesting story line which follows a journalist, Alice, who is being stalked and harrassed every Wednesday. The horror begins at work and then follows her wherever she goes. Her boyfriend, Tom, hires a retired police officer turned PI, Mathew, to investigate when police resources are stretched thin. All anyone wants to know is who she could have upset badly enough to want to do all these terrible things to her.
The books is an easy read, but predictable in the sense that it doesn't lead to the "usual suspects."

I can't imagine being stalked and the feelings of fear that keep building and building as the events that happen to you get creepier and creepier. You don't know who to trust, so you aren't quite sure who to turn to for help. Eventually you question everything, even your sanity! This book had me trying to guess who Alice's stalker was and why they were doing it. Just when I thought I had it figured out I found out I was SO wrong! This book kept me riveted until the last page. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

PI Mathew Hill and DI Melanie Sanders are on the case together again! Someone has it in for Journalist Alice Henderson. She’s trying to be a good daughter to her mother dying from COPD. She and her sister are close and supportive of each other. She feels a strong kinship with her boyfriend, and her employer is supportive but a bit impatient with the empty threats from some stranger with a hang-up about something Alice has done.
From a second perspective, we meet a sweet little boy being raised by his grandmother and thru no fault of her own, she must leave him at home alone on Wednesday nights so she can keep her job. And a child’s worst nightmare begins: someone opens the mail flap in their door, peeking in and threatening him, “Let me in, let me in…” It’s the stuff of nightmares coming true for this innocent little soul. As these two plots spin closer to one another in time and in common, we’re thrown the occasional distraction to completely keep us off-track.
This is a quick psychological thriller that keeps you guessing all along and envelopes feelings of empathy, deep sorrow, and deep love.
(I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Thanks so much to Amazon Publishing UK and NetGalley for making it available.)

Alice is a journalist that receives a threatening phone call on a Wednesday, and being that she works for a newspaper, the police and also some of her work associates dismiss it as a random hoax against the newspaper, not necessarily Alice herself. However, the next Wednesday Alice receives another threat which is directly meant for her. Now the fear sets in. Her boyfriend hires private investigator Matthew Hill (a recurring character in the author's books FYI) to help find out who is stalking Alice and also protect her on Wednesday.

The book jumps from Alice's point of view now and in her past, Matthew's point of view, as well as the mysterious "Him - before". There are a lot of people looking out for Alice, but when parts of her past are revealed things start to go awry. Who should anyone believe? Who is threatening Alice? I feel like you are kept wondering and questioning everyone's motives until "Him" is revealed and things start to make sense.

I read another book by Ms. Driscoll in the past and it was good, but this one is even better! I will not write a book report as the jacket cover is adequate and many others have written synopses of the book.
A couple of the characters are the same but it is not necessary to read any other book in order to follow this one. Characters are realistic, conversations and thoughts flow nicely and it is easy to know which person's. viewpoint you are reading. It is a mystery,psychological thriller with twists and turns that you won't see coming. The book keeps you turning pages and holds your interest. Thankfully there is very little violence or profanity and no real gore included. Enjoy!

I received this book as a complimentary copy for an unbiased review. Thanks to the author,publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. The opinions expressed are my own.

A fast paced, scary psychological thriller about stalking with lots of twists and turns. I was hooked from the first line, “I will use cheese wire on you”, and read this in one sitting.

The story starts with Alice the main character receiving a threatening phone call in the newsroom where she works as a journalist. One of the things I liked best about this book was how Teresa Driscoll does such a brilliant job of bringing to life the insidious nature of stalking. From the outset I was immediately fearful for Alice’s fate, and really felt her sense of isolation and how the stalker came to dominate her life. Tension builds in the story with each creepy event as the stalking escalates and Alice is forced from her old life. What made it scary was how believable each event was against the backdrop of ordinary life. The story is also told from the point of view of “Him”, whose identity remains unknown until the final twist in the plot. I liked that this character has their own story to tell that makes them sympathetic to the reader. There are lots of hints thrown in as to who this might be, and I was suspicious of many of the characters and their stories. It kept me guessing right up to the end.

Private investigator Matthew Hill makes a return appearance from the writer’s previous books, and I enjoyed the ongoing professional relationship with his ex police colleague, Melanie Sanders. I’m not a big fan of police procedurals so I liked the way the investigation aspect was secondary to the stories of Alice and “Him”, but helped pull the story together and ramp up the action.

I really enjoyed this book. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read it and offer my personal review.