🐞 Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.
Alice Feeney

🐞 THREE SUSPECTS, TWO MURDERS, ONE VICTIM

🐞 Pick this up if you like/ don’t mind:
📌 domestic thriller
📌 slow burn murder mystery
📌 short chapters
📌 multiple POVs
📌 alternating timelines
📌 binge worthy read
📌 unexpected twists and turns
📌 talk about post natal depression, motherhood and mother daughter relationship

🐞 Alice Feeney is an auto buy author for me. I will read anything written by her even if it’s a book about accounting. ROCK PAPER SCISSORS ✂️ is one of my favourite thriller. Talking about the book, the start was a bit confusing. I actually lost few of my brain cells trying to figure out who is who. Personally I don’t like it when the books confuse you but it’s quite the opposite when it comes to Alice Feeney’s books. It made me turn the pages faster and finished the book in two sittings. Few of the plot twists were predictable while rest came as a total surprise. However they weren’t jaw dropping like Alice Feeney previous books.

🐞 In short this book was quite DIFFERENT from Alice Feeney’s previous work but it was an enjoyable read. Thanks NetGalley for the eARC.

This is a really interesting and gripping book which is so cleverly told and the plot so very well unfolded that I was surprised and nearly every turn.

Told by many narrators we hear about a baby taken from her pram, an elderly lady in a care home, a book lover obsessed with counting, a counsellor unable to face her own demons and a young girl who tries to help others when she has been let down.

Highly recommended and definitely one of the best from this author.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan for allowing me to read an arc of this book.
I’ve only read Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney so far which I absolutely loved, so was eager to read more by this author.
I really enjoyed this one as well, and think Feeney does an incredible job of creating twists and turns that you never see coming.
All throughout this book I was trying to figure it out, and just when I thought I had it all worked out another plot twist came along to create more tension and suspense.
I didn’t know who I was supposed to like in the book as everyone has secrets, and you never quite know if you can trust any of the characters, but I did find myself hoping for the best for all of them.
I did really love Edith and of course Dickens, because who doesn’t love a dog really?!
We see each main characters POV throughout the book, so we get a different perspective on the past and present which helps to build the plot really well, and gives an insight into how the disappearance of the baby has shaped everyone’s lives.
Overall it was a good story, well written and fast paced, so worth a read.

Four women find themselves tangled up in a decades long series of secrets and lies in this twisty and captivating thriller. Alice Feeney is a master of weaving together storylines and never fails to produce a gripping read!

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

A superb psychological thriller that covers so many aspects in one story. The story centres around Edith, the store detective in the care home and Patience one of the auxiliary staff at the care home. It shows clearly what family betrayal can really stoop down to and Clio, Edith's daughter, really had me fooled. The book begins with such a strong description of all the characters that it is easy to feel that you know them personally. The story shifts from the baby abduction 20 years prior to the current events so well that it is easy to try to guess the final outcomes, but although some are there to be seen, there are still many hidden twists that keep the reader on their toes. The Ladybird connections throughout is such a lovely touch/
A great author who writes in truly spellbound manner.

Good bad girl centres around four women Frankie, Patience, Clio and Edith and how they are linked to two seemingly separate crimes: the kidnapping of a baby from a supermarket and a murder in a care home twenty years later.

In classic Alice Feeney style, this story was extremely twisty and fast paced meaning I devoured this book in one sitting. I loved that all the characters had secrets and the use of unreliable narrators made the reveals even more shocking.

This is the fifth Alice Feeney book I’ve read and I’m yet to be disappointed. She’s definitely an auto-buy author for me!

2.5/5 stars.

Finishing this book almost finished me!
Felt like I was reading a cocky book, it was overly complicated to the point of bragging while all it really needed was to tone it down a few notches, filter out some details and cut off some pages.

It had too many indistinguishable (at least in the beginning) povs, too many confusing time jumps, too many unnecessary repetitive details and for how predictable it was it went on for too long.

It took massive amounts of willpower to convince myself to even finish this and I can’t really say the ending was worth it.

Thank you NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for the digital ARC!

Apparently disparate and chaotic characters become embroiled in a murder at a care home. Ideal for readers who enjoy character-led, unusual thrillers. It will do well.
With thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy in exchange for an independent review.

Sometimes good people do bad things. A sentiment I’m sure we all agree with. The question is: Who are the good people, and what did they do?

Initially we meet Edith. An apparently spritely 80yr old, who lives unwillingly in a nursing home. Edith paints the reader a picture of her situation, then we meet Clio, her daughter. Clio helps us to see another angle of reality, shifting the narrative from what Edith would have us believe. We meet two other women, Frankie, and Patience, who are closely linked, but are estranged from each other. All four women are inextricably bound together.
Each of these women are absolutely trying their utmost to keep trudging on through their lives. Each having faced challenges and made decisions, which still shape their lives. Long reaching effects of the loss of a baby twenty years ago, taken from it’s pram.

Alice Feeney writes with excellent characterisation. I felt empathy for each character, with the exception of Jude, a man with no redeeming features.
Frankie intrigued me instantly. She has clearly suffered loss, and now uses coping mechanisms to ward off anxiety, to anchor herself in the here and now. Though my favourite character is naturally Dickens, all authors should give their books a lovable four footed character.

As is usual with thriller books, we know that all of these characters must be linked. As these links started to show themselves, I expected things to become clearer, but nothing came into focus. The strands of the story are so fine and delicate, they feel barely tangible, like silk in a spider’s web. You know they are there, they exist, but it is difficult to see. Then the author drip feeds a nugget, a tiny detail, and a little something clicks into place. The picture becomes ever so slightly clearer.

Good Bad Girl is a slow burning, satisfying read. 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I liked it!!! The suspense around how the 4 women are linked keeps you reading, you think you know what’s going on but then there’s another curve ball.

I personally liked the way the historical event was weaved in throughout the book, sometimes this is done and doesn’t work but this was done so well.

To sum this up, family drama, mystery, intrigue, betrayal… it’s all there!!

I would recommend this book, thank you to Pan MacMillan and NetGalley for a digital ARC of this book!

I am so pleased to have an early arc of this book! I adore Alice Feeney a this made my day.

I was hooked from the get go with this book! It’s quite fast paced, and reads like it’s set over a really short time period. There are some elements where we go back to an event that happened at another time (won’t spoil anything!) and I was searching for clues from the outset! It’s a fab book and I think it’ll do really well.

I did guess parts of this book towards the second half. The first half had me guessing with so many theories going on regarding who was who, how everyone was linked and how the story connects but the clues starting falling into place and I did guess what I think was supposed to be the “big reveal”. I dropped a star for that reason as I wasn’t as hoodwinked as I thought I was going to be.

I love how the story linked together and I found the character linking to be very clever. I particularly enjoyed that I couldn’t decide who I liked and who I didn’t. Everyone seemed so u trustworthy at one point or another in this book! Fab book overall.

Thank you Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for a copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Twenty years ago, a baby was stolen from a pushchair. In the present day, a women is murdered in a care home. It appears these two crimes are linked in some way, but how?

I thought the book was okay, but I found it was missing the wow factor Alice Feeney’s books usually have. In the acknowledgments, Feeney mentions how she had suffered a heart break in her personal life when she started writing this book and I think it really shows.

There was much more of a family focus in the book and the story explores relationships in much more depth than her usual books. Even though there were twists and turns in the story, I felt the plot was edging away slightly from being a typical thriller.

I loved the little drawings at the start of each chapter, it was something I’ve not seen in a long time. Even though personally I only found this an okay read, I think it’s an excellent one to try if you’re trying to get into thrillers.

A baby girl being abducted in a supermarket begins a story that is inspired by a mother's love for her daughter. A difficult and complicated relationship especially given the secrets and pain they can hide behind inside them.

The story revolves about four women, one living in a care home, one working there, one living in a pink house and one living on a boat house. One common thing about them is that they are all suspected for the murder of a woman in the care home.

The story is faced paced and filled with clues along the way. The mystery and connections are beautiful build up arriving perfectly to a conclusion without leaving anything unanswered.

I was wondering the whole time I was reading it and I loved the way the story was set, giving special attention behind a mother's love for her daughter and a daughter's for her mother.

I have read several books by this author and I honestly think this one is the best she has written up to day.


* I received an ARC and this is my honest opinion.

Good Bad Girls is a very enjoyable read.Full of twists and turns some of which I didn't expect .Four women are the main characters and each have their own story to tell which makes them very interesting characters .A very surprising twist near the end and a good ending ,a great read .Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley, Pan Macmillan, Macmillan and Alice Feeney for an arc e-copy of Good Bad Girl in exchange for an honest review, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

This story is following Edith, Patience, Clio and Frankie as we follow the story of mothers Days Past and Present and unravel the mystery of a missing baby and murder.

This is my first Alice Feeney book and I cannot wait to read more from them, I have already bought Daisy Darker. The story is told in such a unique way, it kept me on my toes and literally had me shouting 'What the' (which is only slightly embarrassing to be doing at work when it's quiet). I flew through this book in 2 days, it is such a quick and easy read, I would have happily read on for many more pages about the characters.

Okay so Alice Feeney books have either been a 5 star or a 1 star for me THERE HAS BEEN NO INBETWEEN UNTIL NOW?! This is just average at best which HURTS ME TO SAY. I would say this lacks the usual Alice Feeney mind bending plot twistery?? I called all but 1 'plot twists' from like 30% in. I even gaslit myself into being like oh if I think this that means it's wrong cause Alice Feeney has always proved me wrong?? But she DIDNT? So like it was fine (although get ready for a LOT OF POVS) but honestly very predictable in mu opinion? She tries to confuse you with multiple POVs and timelines but it's not that hard to keep up. I didn't feel connected to the characters either because of how muddled the POVs were. There was ONE plot twist I DIDN'T see coming (but also am debating whether it would have been possible to see it coming at all) so it gets 3 stars but yeah defo not her best work, still an enjoyable quick thriller though if thats what you're looking for.

Also thank you to the publisher and netgallery for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This mystery had me on the edge of my seat for the majority of the novel. I loved the intertwining narratives of different characters throughout & how I was kept guessing until the final few chapters. Alice Feeney is one of my favourite mystery authors and this book did not let me down.

Page turner! Great storyline and kept me hooked throughout. Some strong female characters and loved the portrayal of the dog Dickens :) Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC

The first chapter is called The End when a baby is stolen from a stroller in a supermarket. We then meet multiple characters throughout the book all told from their perspective. I tried to workout out how they were all connected but I couldn't and thought it was such a clever book which had me hooked from the start.

After getting over a few weeks of a reading slump, I knew I wanted something to keep me hooked as my next read and this was the perfect pick!

Much less dark than some of her previous works, Alice Feeney somehow made a murder mystery seem almost cosy and wholesome in the form of Good Bad Girl.

Although the story felt a bit busy initially and it took a while to work out each of the characters, Feeney wraps this novel up nicely with a surprisingly satisfying ending and I throughly enjoyed it!