I thought this book started out slightly slowly, there was lots going on, lots of characters and it took me a while to get to grips with it. But when it clicked it took off with a vengeance .Wow, this was a really good book, plenty going on, and there were more red herrings than your average fish stall. No spoilers but this kept me gripped until the last page, fabulous

If you are looking for a fast page turner then Trust Me will not disappoint !

What starts of as an ordinary train journey for Ellen turns into a completely different scenario as she is asked to hold a baby while her mother takes an urgent call. What happens next is unimaginable as the mother leaves the train, leaving Ellen with the baby and a note in the baby’s bag which asks Ellen to protect Mia, not to trust the police and to trust no one.

The series of events that follow had me trying my best to figure out the storyline. Why are so many people desperate to find Mia..? Had I missed some important clues ? The complex storyline and characters were beautifully written and I found myself literally trusting none of them.

The ending had me speechless , I didn’t see it coming and this really added to my enjoyment of the book. Overall this was a cleverly written thriller one I would definitely recommend.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for my opportunity to read this addictive book

Trust Me is a high-octane and addictive thriller, starting at full speed with a brilliantly intense opening and not hitting the brakes until the final sentence.

Ellen is an incredibly determined character and is obviously more experienced than she lets on. Part of you loves this feistiness in her, but part of you is on the edge with the constant danger that she puts herself in. But would you do the same? You find yourself constantly asking this question, as having a baby at the centre of all this danger changes your perspective on everything. It's a great concept by TM Logan as it really puts you in the front seat and tests your nerves.

It does grow a tiny [only TINY!] bit tedious that nobody gives Ellen any answers as this is the type of thriller where every character tells her that it's for her own good that she doesn't get involved. But it all adds to the mystery at the end and leaves you desperate to find out what's going on.

There are many red herrings to keep changing your opinion about who's behind all of this, as you really do not know who to trust. And that's what makes this such an enjoyable ride. Just when you think you can like one character, their cover seems to slip and you have to question their motives all over again.

This is undoubtedly a thriller that you want to experience this year. Take your seat, get yourself comfy, and make sure you strap yourself in!

Trust me by T.M.Logan
In true Logan style a page turner till the end. Ellen in the wrong place at the wrong time, she agrees to hold a strangers baby on a train while they answer a call. She never returns. Ellen is stuck with a difficult decision to hand over the baby to the police or to look after her for a while until she can have one of her own. But that decision is rapidly taken out of her hands with a thrilling kidnap situation.
Logan is a great plot writer and Trust Me doesn't disappoint, plenty of twists and red herrings. The side characters are more believable than Ellen, she is just too keen, some of her motive is explained later on but didn't 100% convince me. I wanted the baby to be safe too but not to the extent I would put my life in danger!
Overall, a well plotted thriller with plenty of action. 4*

Thanks to NetGalley and Bonnier Books UK for the ARC.

I’m delighted to be starting off the blog tour for Trust Me and my thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the tour invite and the publisher for the review copy.

If there is one thing you can be sure of with a book by this author – it will be a fast paced, addictive read. I’ve read most of his books and enjoyed each one, so I was so looking forward to Trust Me. Was I disappointed. Absolutely not.

The book begins calmly enough with an already distressed Ellen heading home on a train, when a young woman with a baby sits opposite her. The woman needs to take a phone call and asks Ellen to hold the baby, whilst she steps outside the carriage. Ellen readily agrees but after some moments realises that the train has come to a stop and the woman has gone. She then sees her walking down the platform. Ellen is left literally holding the baby.

Now the sensible thing would be to immediately raise the alarm but then this would be a very short book. However by delaying matters, Ellen has no idea how her life is about to change.

Poor Ellen, I really did feel for her as she was put through the mill just for helping a stranger. The situation is made worse for her by being left a note with the baby that says “don’t trust anyone”. With so many characters, some seemingly quite unpleasant I found it impossible to know who was trustworthy, if any of them were.

Ellen was one of those characters that I felt empathy for but frustrated with at the same time. Separated from her husband and desperately wanting a baby of her own, there were times when some decisions she made had me shouting in my head “why are you doing that…” and I had a horrible feeling that things wouldn’t end well, however her protective instinct towards a stranger’s baby and the unknown danger that they both faced, spurred her on.

Told over a short period of less than a week, each chapter is fairly short and narrated from various perspectives; from Ellen’s in the first person which gives a greater insight into her personality and with everyone else in the third person.

The plot on occasions seemed rather complicated and for me the biggest question was WHY? There were other plot strands and I couldn’t work out how they were connected. There was a point when I became too suspicious and worked out the who.

Trust Me is an intriguing, complex, addictive, and twisty thriller that I raced through. The author keeps the suspense and tension building all the way through, with a little misdirection and a few surprises here and there. It’s another great read from this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Definitely recommended.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book

a train journey
a young girl asks ellen to hold her baby while she answers the phone....she is left holding the baby after she realises the girl has left the train

and what follows next is a series of events that ultimately leads to murder

who is this baby and why is this all happening...

a complex case for the police to solve as they try to find the "ghost" a man they want to arrest for several murders...

a strange storyline where we are led to believe that ellen is just a normal person who gets handed a baby and then goes all out to solve the mystery, if i was to be cynical you could pull holes in the whole storyline but for enjoyment its up there, but i cant imagine the police force would take kindly to a civilian punching holes into their investigation...

A fast, spinning thriller, the suspense taut like elastic from start to finish. And the central character is a tiny baby.

​It takes a while to work out what is going on, why this three month-old child is so significant, and then the whodunnit countdown to eliminate the often bizarre and disturbed characters. Written from the perspective of several characters, allowing the reader to form a link, for a short while we can take their side. Mainly though, the story is sold from the point of view of a woman who is handed a baby to look after for a few minutes while the mother takes a phone call whilst on a moving train. Then she gets off leaving the stranger to look after the child.

This pacy book is easy to read and to empathise with most of the characters, even the weird ones. The theme, as the title says, is about who to trust and how it isn't always so obvious. I expect this to be another bestseller for T.M. Logan.

This is the third T.M. Logan book I've read and I think it's my favourite one so far. Ellen Devlin is on a train back to London after being told the devastating news that she can not have children. It's almost too much to bear when a young woman sits opposite her with a gorgeous baby girl. Despite her pain, Ellen can't resist the smiley baby and when the young woman asks Ellen to hold her while she takes a phone call, Ellen is more than willing to help. But when Ellen sees the young woman get off at the next station, she wonders just what has she agreed to.

I loved this book mainly because I couldn't work out what was going on! There is clearly something special about baby Mia because quite a few people seem to be after her. Is she a clone (seriously, I did consider this) or important in another scientific way, like gene therapy (I also thought this)? Or is there an angry, deranged father who wants to hurt her? T.M. Logan throws up so many ideas that it's hard to know which one to catch.

The writing is superb and the tension remains strong throughout. Ellen is a great character. She used to be in the Royal Navy so she can definitely handle herself. And just as well. There are quite a few action scenes.

Although Ellen is the main narrator, we do hear from others in the story. But which narrator do we believe? Who can we trust? More importantly, who can Ellen trust?

'Trust Me' is a fast-paced, intriguing story that will keep you guessing until the end.

This is a must read thriller! It does not disappoint. Without saying too much as I don’t want to ruin any twists- it has a great plot. It’s really enjoyable and how it’s told from different perspectives makes it interesting. Overall a great read! Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC

Ellen is travelling on a train when Kathryn and baby Mia sit next to her, they begin chatting, Katherine suddenly takes a phone call and asks Ellen to hold the baby. Kathryn never returns, and in Mias bag is a note saying ‘please protect Mia, don’t trust the police, don’t trust anyone’ as the story unfolds Ellen is about to discover that the baby might be part of a crime. What will Ellen do for the best? Are their lives in danger?

This is a great face paced thriller with twists and turns along the way, you will not want to put the book down. TM Logan has produced another great read.

Thankyou to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review

This book reminded me of "Woman on the Edge" by Samantha M Bailey, a woman hands you her baby and then something happens to her.
This then developed into a puzzle of a different style, but definitely the same vibes for me.
I loved the protagonist Ellen, and she was a fantastic character to take on the challenge of looking after Mia and unravelling the mystery surrounding her mother Kathryn.
This was a twisty read and enjoyable, although I did feel it dragged somewhat in the middle. The ending, however, was fantastic and I was thoroughly gripped to the last page as the story was tying up the ends.

I am a great fan of Tim Logan’s books. This book deviates from his usual style and I did not enjoy it as much as his other books. I liked the idea of a stranger handing over a baby to be looked after for a few minutes and then leaving the train, but I struggled with the number of bad male characters and how many scrapes our heroine, Ellen, got into. I lost track of who most of the men were, who The Ghost was, and the man with no eyebrows sitting opposite her on the train taking photos on his laptop to the extent that maybe they were even all the same person. The problem was, I was not interested in them enough to go back to check, like I normally would.
I will continue to read Tim’s books, and hope they get back to the style that I enjoy.

I found this a good 3* read.

It's a gripping tale about a baby, left with a stranger on a train. From the start I was hooked to find out why? Particularly as, immediately, the stranger is followed ...

It's an easy read, just a tad slow for me and I didn't really engage fully with any of the characters.

However, it's competently written and a Good Read.

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

Not the first book I’ve read by this author, and I do enjoy this authors work.

The story certainly starts with a bang! Ellen is on a train when a stranger with a young baby asks to sit with her. They strike up a conversation and the stranger (Kathryn) asks Ellen to hold baby Mia while she goes further down the carriage to take a phone call. The next time Ellen sees Kathryn is when she looks out of the window and sees her walking along the platform of the station they are leaving!
Unsure what to do next, she looks in baby Mia’s changing bag only to find a note saying ‘Please protect Mia. Don’t trust the police. Don’t trust anyone.’

A few twists, turns and red herrings. I did work out ‘whodunnit’ about two thirds of the way through. However this didn’t detract from my enjoyment, it just made me want to carry on and confirm my suspicions.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and of course the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Oh wow! I read this so fast, once I had started the first few pages I couldn't put it down.

Ellen is not in a good place, she's split with her husband after years of trying to start a family. Now she finds out that he's got his new girlfriend pregnant! So when a complete stranger on a train asks her to hold her baby for a minute, she is unsure but agrees. What she doesn't expect, is for the mother to get off the train and leave her with the baby. When she finds a note in the baby's bag telling her to look after her, and trust no one she's in two minds. Does she go straight to the police or could she just take the baby and pretend she's hers? Turns out it's no as simple as either of those choices.

This book is really fast paced, has some great characters and until the end I didn't know who was the culprit. I thoroughly enjoyeef it.

I have enjoyed previous books by this author and the premise of this story was really intriguing, so I was looking forward to reading it!

When Ellen is left literally holding the baby after she helps out a stranger on a train, she had no idea what to do or the danger that she was now in.
The pace of the story is quick, the plot complex and there are red herrings aplenty! To the point that I had no clue what had happened, changed my mind over who had done what several times and did not see the ending coming at all.
Well worth a read.

Deftly plotted, with a bucketful of red herrings and more twists than a corkscrew, Trust Me is another blistering thriller from TM Logan. It’s pacey, intriguing and intense, and I couldn’t put it down.

The premise, laid out in the blurb, gets the juices flowing before you even open the book.

Ellen is on the train into London when a young mum asks her to hold her baby daughter so that she can make an urgent phone call. A few minutes later, the train stops and the woman gets off, leaving Ellen with the baby and a hastily scrawled note: Please look after Mia. Don’t trust the police. Don’t trust anyone.

The chain of events that follows sees Ellen fearing for her life as she’s abducted, escapes, is threatened by not one but two strange men, and ends up embroiled in a terrifying family drama.

First off: I loved the character of Ellen. She’s feisty, brave to the point of reckless, and at the same time very, very human. She’s just received the worst news of her life but puts personal tragedy aside to fight for the safety of a child she knew for just a few short hours. In fact, in a neat twist, it’s that same personal tragedy that spurs her on. I liked that idea. A lot.

The plot is beautifully constructed, coaxing you down blind alleys and up garden paths, spinning you this way and that until you’re almost dizzy with the thrill of it. Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger, inviting you to read just one more, and then another, until before you know it, it’s 3am and you have a Zoom meeting in five hours.

On top of that, the narrative is laced with a delicious air of menace that builds relentlessly until the final, gob-smacking twist. The climax, a showdown between Ellen and the ultimately revealed bad guy, is heart-stoppingly good and a very satisfying ending to a great read.

Trust Me is absolutely fantastic. It is fast paced and gripping from the first page, to the last. The characters are all well written and developed and Ellen is particularly likeable as she tries to do the right thing whilst dealing with her own personal problems. Without going into detail about Ellen's problems, T.M Logan has expertly written the heartache she has been through and is still going through. I loved the ending of this book, both the culmination of the main story and the outcome for Ellen.
I have read all the books T.M Logan has written and they just get better and better, with this being his best yet. I highly recommend Trust Me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for my ARC.

After enjoying The Catch only afew months ago I was looking forward to reading this new thriller by T.M Logan. It was definitely fast paced and I read it in only afew sittings. I like the way it had me changing my mind multiple times right up until the end and there was plenty of action to keep me interested. There were afew unbelievable moments for me on the main characters part but really it all added to the drama.

A fantastic, fast paced book that leaves you questioning everyone & who can really be trusted. Trust Me is filled with shady characters & plenty of questions, this is a compulsive page turner.

I'm a visual reader, I picture everything in my head like a movie & this one was written in such a way that I could see everything in brilliant detail, I flew through it. It wasn't over written with long trudging descriptions, but what was written allowed me to see the whole thing so clearly (too clearly in some cases, I gave myself a fright or two).

TM Logan has a way of writing that really grips, short puncy sentences that drive the action forward & keep you tense. There is one moment in particular that is still haunting me, written so simply but so effectively that every time I think about it it gives me chills. I'll be double checking my doors are locked.

I loved this book.