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This was my first ever Andrea Mara novel and WOW it did not dissapoint.
Everytime I read an Irish thriller writers books I'm constantly blown away and this time was no different!

On a crowded platform in London Sive stands with her baby & two young daughters, as the train pulls in the two girls board the train, as Sive goes to join them the doors close and the train moves away.
By time she gets to the next station to meet her daughters, but instead she arrives to only one of them waiting there

This book packs a punch, I had absolutely no ides what way it would play out and I physically could not put it down until I found out what happened.
It's told between past and present timelines, giving perspective from all characters so the story is constantly unravelling.
I was truly hooked in with this one and it's such an easy 5 stars for me, the ending just KEPT on giving everytime I thought all the twists had happened, another one would come pull the rug from under me.
It's a hair raising, tense book with never ending secrets and I just cannot recommend this enough!

Im now off to read all of Andrea's back list 👏🏻

Firstly, thank you to Netgallery, Random House and Andrea Mara for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

Andrea Mara has done it again her books are amazing she is the queen of thrillers! I’ve read all her books so I was ecstatic about getting my hands on her latest one!
Wow what can I say this book was amazing, it was a fast paced and kept me guessing throughout a perfect book for psychological thrillers fans alike! The ending- I did not see it coming! This book was so good I read it in day!

Overall I throughly enjoyed this book and all the plot twists that it presented!Andrea Mara definitely should be on everyones shelf!

Well thankyou yet again, Andrea Mara. I've put aside the cleaning, the cooking and the washing because I mistakenly picked up your book this morning and barely put it down.

An interview with Andrea with Bookpunk's Bob Mackenzie revealed that the basis for this latest thriller was loosely based on her own experience of being separated very temporarily from parents on the tube during a holiday in the 80s when she was 12 and her sibling was 6.

It is surely every parent's worst nightmare. But of course Andrea Mara doesn't leave her story at the temporary separation. In this story the two little girls are 6 and 2. In this story the 2 year old turns up quickly but Faye, the 6 year old, has gone.

The rest of the book is the frantic search by parents Sive and Aaron to find out where she is, who has taken her and why.

As with her other fabulous books Andrea sends us down blind alley after blind alley. Just when you think you have one bit neatly figured out she drops another bombshell on you.

It's irritating how well she does this. I'm woeful at working out whodunnits so when I got one bit right I was so busy patting myself on the back that the next bit threw me for six and I was back to scratching my head again.

So thankyou, yet again, for another riveting read. There are quite a few characters to get your head round and the timeline jumps around a fair bit but it won't take you long to get into the swing and then I defy anyone to put the book down until the end

Highly recommended. Just leave yourself plenty of time (and have a pile of snacks ready) to read it all in one go. It's addictive reading.

Wow what a read!… I was up all night reading this… An absolutely gripping psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page… Full of mystery and suspense with twists and turns to keep you on your toes, I was completely hooked… Gives you goosebumps

No one saw a thing by Andrea Mara

As we have come to expect from Andrea Mara, this was a real page turner. A mother is at a tube station and the doors close after her two children get on the train ahead of her. When she catches up at the next station only one child is there and no one has any answers. This book really kept me guessing as there are a lot of secrets involved and the pace didn’t falter at any stage. Hard to write much about it without giving spoilers so I will just say if you like thrillers, you will enjoy this one.

Thank you to netgalley, the author and Random House UK for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Talk about a book and a half!

Sive and Aaron are parents of 3 young children - Faye, Bea and baby Toby. The whole family have travelled from Dublin to London for a long weekend reunion with Aaron’s old housemates when the unthinkable happens. Faye disappears.

After a few days of slipping into old rivalries and memories, Sive is taking the children via tube to meet Maggie when the two girls slip through the doors before her and the train leaves without her. Frantic, she gets the attention of a passenger and rushes to the next station to retrieve her children. Unfortunately only Bea is waiting with the passenger. Faye is nowhere to be seen.

Aaron’s old housemates - Scott, Nita, Maggie, Dave - play their parts in helping the search and looking after the other children whilst the parents frantically try to discover the whereabouts of their missing daughter. But just what secrets are being kept by the adults and what links their secrets to Faye’s disappearance?

A rollercoaster of a novel that would be brilliant to read in one setting. I love Andrea’s books and this one was no exception. Would highly recommend.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and review.

There are many book plots that feature parents’ worst nightmares but surely Andrea’s new novel has to be up there: watching your children as the Tube doors close. They’re in the Tube, you’re outside the Tube with your youngest child. The train whisks away to the next station and you’re desperate to get your two daughters back. But when you arrive at the next platform, only one is waiting for you… the other is… well, where is the other? So begins the nightmare for an Irish couple and the agonising journey throughout London as they search for their eldest daughter. Intwined with the panic is a series of vignettes of lives leading up to the present, romantic misendeavours and poor decisions. All the while time is ticking and you still haven’t found your child. How far would you go to find your child? What would you be willing to do or say to bring her home? I thoroughly enjoyed the ups and downs to the plot, almost like a train journey, with twists and turns that are unexpected but from a reader’s point of view, enhance what is already an excellent read.

This is the second 'every parent's nightmare' thriller by this author I have read. This time it is the horror of seeing the tube doors close with the children inside and the mum still on the platform.
Told across two timelines - the day of the disappearances and three days earlier when the family arrived in London for a friends' reunion - the story builds up tension with some nicely placed red herrings. Sive and Jude were great viewpoint characters.
With thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy in exchange for an independent review.

The best Andrea Mara thriller yet, I couldn’t put it down. She has such a way of taking every parents nightmare (and believe me, she’s added to some of mine!) and adding even more twists and turns to keep you guessing.

What would you do if while on your way to get on the train, your kids got on ahead of you and the doors closed before you could reach them - only for one of them to vanish by the time you got to them? The sense of panic is palpable, and as the situation progressed over the few days in the book, Mara weaves in brilliant characters, so you truly are questioning what was really going on, and if there could be a happy ending.

Even if you’re new to domestic noir, pick this one up - you won’t regret it!

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

Sive, Aaron, and their three children are visiting London for Aaron’s reunion with his old housemates from his university days. They live in Ireland, so visiting London has been stressful before they’d even left Ireland. As the days in London trundle on, Sive arranges to meet one of the gang at a bar for brunch. To get there she has to take the Tube. As she is on the platform, her phone rings, she declines the call. As she looks up the Tube doors shut and two of her children are on the train without her. In a place with millions of people. As she hunts for her missing daughters, one of them reappears. But one of them is still missing. As the search intensifies, Sive comes to find that everyone lies.

This was a cracking read from this author. This author never fails to produce a book that can be relatable, yet terrifying. We read this story from the present day to previous times to see the build up to her daughter going missing. This also allows us opportunity to connect with the other characters and realise the lies each and everyone has. The characters were all perfectly written, and their individual personalities help support the story in pushing tension to the surface. The book was full of twists and turns, and all led to an explosive end.

An excellent read that I’d highly recommend.

I read about this book on Penguin's Bookmarks site and it immediately appealed to me so I was delighted when I was sent this ARC.

Sive and her husband Aaron are in London where he is having a reunion with old friends from university. These reunions are a bit of an ordeal for Sive. She's odd man out and there's so much posturing among the old friends it really is tedious. This time she has her three children with her including the baby. At a tube station the two older children Faye (6) and Bea (2) run ahead onto the train which then leaves without Sive. At the next station, Bea is found but there is no sign of Faye. And so the nightmare begins with revelation after revelation about the group of friends. No one is who they seem to be, especially her husband Aaron.

It's hard to put down this book and I read it very quickly. It's a light, enjoyable read with plenty of twists and turns to keep you hooked. The premise of a child disappearing on the tube is terrifying but utterly believable. Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin for the ARC. 4.5 stars

“Sive is outside her own body, watching the couple at the desk as they sit, hands clenched, waiting for questions they hope will make sense of everything. Clinging on for dear life.”

While on a trip to London, Sive struggles with her two young daughters and baby son in a buggy during rush hour at Bond Street tube station. While ushering the girls forward on to the tube, the doors shut in front of her face and thus begins the nightmare. Her children are gone and no one saw a thing.

As ever, Andrea grabs the reader from the start and holds us there, open-mouthed and intermittently gasping until the last page. Having read some of her books before, I was fully expecting twists and turns but have yet to successfully predict any - the mark of a perfect thriller for me! My usual mantra of ‘just one more chapter’ goes out the window when reading Andrea’s books - she has a knack of ending a chapter on a cliffhanger and it just makes the book so difficult to put down.

No One Saw a Thing has the ingredients needed for the ideal thriller: suspense, high stakes, twists and a fast pace.

No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara

If you know me but at all you will know that I’m an Andrea Mara superfan so I was delighted to get a chance to read an early copy of her latest book, which will be published on 11th May 2023.

This is Andrea’s sixth novel and possibly my favourite so far. I could not put this down, reading at every opportunity and giving serious consideration to drinking coffee at bedtime so that I could stay up.

In No One Saw A Thing, Sive has travelled to London with her husband and children for a reunion weekend with his old college housemates. Spending the weekend with this motley crew probably would’ve been bad enough but one morning, while trying to negotiate the tube on her own with the kids, her two daughters get on ahead of her and the doors close, leaving Sive on the platform. Nightmare.

What ensues is a frantic search of the London underground and a deep dive into the past to find out what happened, and who she can trust.

Andrea is the queen of page turners and cliff hanger chapter endings, and has an uncanny knack of taking a parent’s worst fears and turning them into a terrifying but irresistible psychological thriller.

Available to pre-order now from all the usual places; as I’ve said so many times before, pre-orders are a great way to support your favourite authors.

Thanks to the publishers @penguinbooksireland the advanced proof copy and e-ARC via @netgalley

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WOW!!!!!! Andrea Mara has done it again & has written another heartstoppimg thriller! Sive is in London with her husband Aaron & the unimaginable happens. Where has Faye gone & who has her. This book is impossible to put down & has excellent twists and turns One of the books of 2023 already!!

Andrea specializes in a great hooks that pull the reader in and keep them reading. This book is brilliantly paced and it's impossible not to keep turning the pages

Thanks to Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this arc .

A fan of Andrea Mara. This book is another that doesn't disappoint!

A group of old friends get together for a reunion. . But all is not what is seems. A train journey doesn't go to plan. A young girl goes missing. But what's happened to her? As the hunt for her starts , the story unfolds. Slipping from past to present . Who do you believe?,who do you trust? What's happened to the child? A story full of twists and turns! Read on to find the truth .

Another cracking read from Andrea Mara

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Once again, Mara has delivered a gripping and thrilling page turner regarding lost/missing children. this really seems to be her niche.
What I loved about this book and her previous books was that I had NO idea where the story was going. Each twist and turn took me by surprise. Everyone in the friend group is despicable in their own way, yet I never truly suspected any of them. The outcome blew my mind a bit to be honest. Mara is SO GOOD at what she does!

Wow... what a story! Fast-paced, tense, twisty... I couldn't put it down. I loved the structure, the clever plot, the absolutely heart-stopping opening, the little hints Mara dropped about the many secrets that are gradually revealed... her best yet, and my favourite book so far in 2023.

Sive and her husband Aaron are in London for a reunion, along with their three young children. As she juggles pushing a baby in a buggy through a busy Tube station, checking a work message on her phone and trying to get herself, the baby and her two little daughters onto a train, the unthinkable happens and Sive is forced to watch from the platform as the train pulls away with Faye and Bea on board... This is just the start of a gripping journey, with the ensuing panic interspersed with flashbacks to events of the previous few days. We are treated to red herrings, dead ends and some shocking twists as the story progresses, but I can say any more without giving too much away!

Do not miss this book when it comes out on May 11th.

Another amazing novel by the wonderful Andrea Mara. Sive and her husband Aaron visiting old friends in London when suddenly th unimaginable happens. Their two young daughters run ahead of Sive and the buggy and hop onto the tube. A frantic hunt begins to reunite Sive and Aaron with their daughter. How does one daughter get lost and the other returned?
We soon discover that ‘everyone is lying’ as the group of friends slowly unravel secrets about one another as they search for the missing child.
I was so invested in the characters and their lives, Andrea tied the whole story together wonderfully.
With plenty of twists and turns along the way I was fully immersed in the lives of this group of friends. This was a brilliant read and a complete page turner.
This was my favourite of Andrea’s books so far. Recommended

No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara* is the upcoming new release from Ireland’s premier thriller writer. Two little girls board a crowded tube in London, the doors close behind them, leaving their mother on the platform. Sive races to the next stop but, only her two year old Bea is waiting. Faye is gone and no one can tell her anything. As the day wears on and fears grow, Sive and her high flying barrister husband Aaron retrace their steps, and those of his life in London decades before, to try and find Faye. What unravels is a fast-paced, twisted thriller where those closest to you seem to have the most to hide. I read this in two days and I think it may be my favourite Mara book yet? Out 11/5 - get your pre orders in (super important to authors to encourage booksellers to stock it!) you won’t regret it!