Wow.
So many strands, so many stories within the one story, so many emotions and so much skill.
2023 is shaping up to be the year when I have to have a tie break of about 4 books for my best book of the year and believe me All of Us Are Broken willbe on that list.

This starts off with a really emotive and gut wrenching hook and then proceeds to show various journeys from the south of England up to Scotland with plenty of twists and whammys along the way.
I am in awe with the way this book is plooted. Nothing is given away to early and every scene entices you more and more inot the narrative.
No hesitation at all in giving this book 5 stars. Loved it!

Brilliant, just brilliant. I cannot get enough of Fiona Cummins writing and characters. It is all so vivid on the pages that you feel as if you are there in the Scottish Highlands. Crime fiction at its very best, this is one dark and evil book.

A couple on a killing spree across the country, think Bonnie and Clyde. They do.not hold back and show no mercy. Fox and Missy are on the run and know how it will end. The Hardwicke family have been through absolute hell and are headed for Scotland to see the dolphins. They stop at a remote hotel for the night where they meet Fox and Missy. Blue and Saul are on the case as well.

If you have read Fiona’s books before you will have met Saul and Blue. This. An be read as a stand alone without missing anything though. The tension throughout this book is so high, it will keep you turning the pages into the night.

A massive thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for my advanced copy. Easy 5 ⭐️ Published on July 20th.

A fast past thriller from serval angles all coming together for an all consuming end.

This is an great thriller 3 sets of people police, victims and the killers. What starts as a "normal week day morning for newly engaged Melissa is soon transformed into complete chaos when one unruly lad goes too far in the class room whilst Melissa loses focus. O her friends show they any really and a dirty old teacher tries it on.

The Hardwicke family set of after a testing time for the Scottish Borders the Mum wanting to get the kids away from ordinary life for a short while is been a tough few months. The journey is testing g but not as tough as its going to be later when the Mum has to make one of the hardest decisions of her life an impossible one for any mother.

And Detective Saul Anguish, well after a good deed helping an eager younger detective round to some cats, but the job of a murder detective. But his day is going to test him and well you can read all that for yourself.

This works really well as each chapter is given to a different one of our groups and the flow is easy to follow even if the twists aren't easy to guess and there are several. Great characters great storyline well unless you were living it obviously! I really recommend this great thriller and hope you love it a much as I did.

I have read and enjoyed other books by this author. Once again she does not disappoint. All of us are broken is essentially a modern day Bonnie and Clyde tale. However every character in the book has their flaws as of course do all humans and these flaws are used beautifully by the author within the narrative. The story initially catches the reader's attention by beginning with a hostage situation then returns to show how the situation built to this climax. There are some superb unexpected twists and a great ending. What more can I say!
Thanks to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Netgalley and Pan Publishing for the ARC of this book.
When I started reading I wasn’t sure at all about the book or the characters at all. Could not see how any of them were going to make a decent read. I didn’t like sone of them at all. How wrong I was!!! The end of this book is absolutely amazing. A totally different look at police procedures in fact I felt a totally different look at life itself.
Well done to the author, looking forward to more of your books.

ALL OF US ARE BROKEN

WOW Fiona Cummins, just wow !!

This review is just not going to do this superb novel justice.

The prologue does its job and gets you hooked from the start with the malice seeping through the pages.

The descriptions were so vivid throughout this novel, it was as though I was watching everything play out on a television screen.

Complementing these fantastic descriptive pros was the exquisitely crafted characters.

This multilayered book keeps you hooked to peel back these layers and revealing those twists that you are unable to see coming.

Highly recommended.

Thank you #Netgalley, publishers Pan MacMillan and of course the author Fiona Cummins, for my eArc copy of #AllOfUsAreBroken in exchange for my honest review. And I was absolutely blown away by it !!

I love this author and have read everything this very talented author has written. For me this is the best book she have ever written. It starts off with a hostage situation and this is only the beginning of one hell of a read. This read had me glued to my seat and tapping my kindle like a demented woodpecker. I could not put this book down. Original plot, great characters and a storyline that kept me reading late into the night. I had to know the truth!!! A first rate police procedural, full of so many twists and turns that had me constantly holding my breath and continuously changing my mind. A real tour de force of of a crime thriller and a must read for all readers of this genre.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

What a read, dark troubling, brutal, thought-provoking but a brilliant read.

Missy and Fox how on earth did that happen? To bring together all the victims with their stories and the villains was a masterstroke in writing.

Knowing all the areas mentioned in the book very well it was interesting to see that the descriptions were accurate, precise and well-documented. One of the books of 2023 so far for me.

Well done Fiona Cummings author to follow in her writing.

Wonderful! Absolutely loved this book. It is dark, twisty and very violent.

The first few pages of the story grab your attention and it never wavers. Faced with a Sophie’s Choice, what would any mother do?

Missy and Fox are on the run. Conducting a killing spree on the way, their actions are vile and evil. The reader gets to know their backstory, and realise that in some cases, no amount of nurturing would change the outcome. Missy has been used and abused by those closest to her, with a mother who lied to keep her from her natural father, instead putting her in the path of a predator. Fox is pure evil, but his charisma and flair with Missy shows her what she has been missing, love and affection.

With Blue and Saul thrown into the mix, this is a fantastic read, with every action explored and accounted for, brilliant!

The Hardwicke family are another running theme throughout the book, and their story is both uplifting and tremendously sad, a real tear jerker, hankies at the ready!

To only give this book 5* is very mean, it really should be commensurate with the body count! It surpasses all expectations and they were very high. Read in one go, a complete rollercoaster of a read.

Thank you NetGalley.

This is one of the darkest, most disturbing, and most powerful books I’ve read for a while. Just when you think things can’t get worse they do! The book opens with a gut-wrenching prologue; Christine Hardwicke and her children Galen and Tom are at the mercy of killers Missy and Fox, a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Christine is given a harrowing ultimatum. The police are surrounding the building. Who will get out alive? I wasn’t aware that this was a follow up to another book but it read well as a stand-alone. The writing and the storyline are so good, it’s fast paced and thrilling but beware some murder scenes are graphic and could be upsetting for some.

Briefly, after her husband leaves them Christine decides to take the children to Scotland on holiday but it turns out to be anything but. DC Saul Anguish, Dr Clover March ‘Blue’ and two other officers are after Missy and Fox following the trail of dead bodies. Then all these group converge …

This author does characters so well. Saul is such a dark character, I’m off to read the previous book now as I need to know more. The plot is full of twists and turns and there are some shocking secrets revealed. So well plotted there seems to be something happening on every page, I was totally engrossed in this shockingly dreadful, achingly sad, violently evil story. And just when I thought it was all over a reveal that caused a tear or two. Wonderful.

Do not bother keeping a count of the bodies!
Missy and Fox are both from very disadvantaged backgrounds decide that life is so bad that they are going to go on a killing spree and Missy would become famous at last.
I thought that i would feel uncomfortable reading about the killings with neither Missy or Fox showing any remorse but somehow i did not.
Into the mix falls the Chadwicke family who have plenty of their own problems and are heading north to Scotland from Essex for a holiday.
The third party are the police focusing on DC Saul Anguish and girlfriend Blue.
Everybody heads north to Perthshire where their paths finally meet.
Saul and Blue both have troubled pasts and we slowly find out about them.
It is easiest to warm to the Chadwicke family with 13 year old Galen fighting against all the injustices in her life.
Plenty of action and the pace never drops so i was hooked and read the book in three days.
The climax at the remote lodge was scary and realistic.
I will look out for other books by this author.
With thanks to NetGalley and Pan McMillan for the arc.

Absolutely love Fiona’s writing and this book did not disappoint.
A couple on the run and a killing spree bump into a mother and her 2 children on holiday at a hotel in the highlands of Scotland and after killing most of the other guests and staff force the mother into making an impossible decision.
It’s up to detective Saul Anguish to stop this modern day Bonnie and Clyde and he puts himself in the firing line when he tries. Who will live and who will die?
I loved this book and the way the author brings in details about Saul’s past which will be recognisable to people who have read her previous novels Rattle and The collector.

THE best violent, tragic and sad book I have read this years! 'Totally unputdownable' with a smooth introduction to a modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

However, the quality of the descriptive prose was yet another reason to give this book a top review. Ms Cummins drew me in from the start.

One of her characters, DC Saul Anguish is back, and is part of the police team trying to follow the violence. There is also the Hardwicke family who are involved = but no more spoilers!

Thanks to Net Galley and Pan Macmillan for the chance to read and review.

This is my first Fiona Cummins book but it definitely won't be my last. Wow, what a fantastic page turner.
The characters of Missy and Fox, a modern day Bonnie and Clyde, are pure evil. Travelling north they leave a trail of horror in their wake. Detective Saul Anguish and his team are in pursuit, hoping to stop the pair before more meaningless deaths occur.
I especially loved the characters of the Hardwicke family. They had suffered such pain already and when their paths crossed with Missy and Fox it was almost to much to bear.
The author took the time to give each victim a story no matter how briefly we knew them. It gave much more gravitas to their deaths and gave an incite into how cold blooded these killers really were.
I was intrigued by Saul and Blue's story. There is a book before this that I haven't read and will do so to get the full picture. This doesn't detract from this book though and it's easy to read as a stand alone novel. I will definitely be reading more Fiona Cummins books. Thank you Netgalley and Pan macmillan for the ARC.

This is the next instalment featuring Detective Saul Anguish and this is a complete page-turner that I couldn't put down. I loved that this doesn't hold back from the raw and gritty reality of crime and immerses you into the story.
All of Us Are Broken is told from three main POV's and it's incredibly interesting seeing into the different characters heads especially as the action ramps up and the story becomes more tense. I think that was incredibly skilfully written and an amazing police procedural. Overall I really recommend and without spoiling anything there are loads of shocking twists to hook you in and keep you guessing.

Wow - this was a rollercoaster of a read. I hadn't read the blurb and I had no idea what I was in for. That's probably the best way, so I don't want to say too much in a review. The story opens in devastating fashion with a massive cliffhanger and continues to rack up the tension, until we get back to that opening cliffhanger to find out what happened. The tension is almost unbearable at times - I had to take breaks before I could continue reading.

It's a third (?) outing for unlikelily-named DC Saul Anguish and narcoleptic forensic linguist Dr Clover March, known to Saul as "Blue". Because she has blue hair. These two are probably my least favourite part of the story - they're a bit too weird, their lives are weird, I didn't care about their relationship and I never felt I got a grip on Clover's personality - although I do appreciate Saul's drive to protect the innocent. I've read the preceding book, Into the Dark, but I suspect there's some further backstory that I need to catch up on.

I did care a lot about Christine Hardwicke and her two children, Galen and Tom, and very much wanted things to work out for them, unlikely though that seemed.

It's a rollercoaster ride, as I said, but one that ultimately raises some interesting questions. When is killing justifiable, or at least defensible? What turns a person into a monster?

I had to read this in one sitting because it is quite literally unputdownable.
This is the second Saul Anguish book, and although it can be read as a stand-alone, I would suggest reading Into The Dark to understand Saul.
Melissa is a primary school teacher. She heads into school after celebrating her engagement the previous evening. The class is disruptive, and she has no control over them. There is a bad accident, and Melissa walks out.
She phones Fox, who is a bad man. They go on the run, causing chaos and destruction.
Christine has taken her children Galen, who is thirteen and eight year old Tom out of school. They are heading to Chanonry Point in Scotland to see the dolphins.
They are on a collision course with Missy and Fox with unimaginable consequences.
What a rollercoaster of a ride this was.
I was absolutely gripped.
This is quite a brutal and violent book, but Cummins writing just takes your breath away.
Tissues needed.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for the ARC in return for an honest review.

All of us are broken by Fiona Cummins is an emotional rollercoaster of a storyline, with many twists and turns and dead bodies mounting by the page.
I didn’t realise even with a book title of “All of us are broken” that it would come to mean nearly every character in the story. I have to say that the ending left me with tears streaming down my face, which is a very rare event .
The book was well written, with deeply flawed antagonists and deeply flawed protagonists and many unforeseen events and the ending was unexpected and so very sad.
Highly recommended

From the first page you’re confronted with the ultimate dilemma for a parent. Then you’re taken on a rollercoaster ride of murder and madness akin to Bonnie and Clyde. It’s an absolute must read. My favourite so far this Summer.

I’ve read a number of Fiona Cummins books and she is the master of creating the most complex of characters. Every novel is a gripping page turner. This book though is my favourite by far.

Buy it.

This is dark, very dark, but an absolutely compelling read! Fast paced, gritty and filled with suspense, it's a rollercoaster from start to finish. One of the best psychological thrillers I have read, with great characterisation, I absolutely loved young Tom, and very clever plotting. An easy 5* from me, with grateful thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for my ARC.