Good Bad Girl is a suspenseful thriller that grips you from the very start and doesn't let go. Told from multiple POV's with multiple crimes we slowly see things begin to connect and how different women are linked. I loved the plot and how everything was intricately woven, it truly takes you on a rollercoaster with twists you don't see coming. This is my first book by Alice Feeney but it won't be my last as I was blown away by her writing and I highly recommend this story.

My only piece of advice reading this novel is don't try too hard to work out who everyone is because your brain might just spill out. I know mine tried a few times. There are red herrings by the shoal-load along with plenty blind alleys and a few twists thrown in for good measure. In fact how Alice Feeney constructed this story deserves a commendation alone.

The book deals mainly with mothers and daughters and their often fractious relationships.

In the story we meet Patience (who isnt), Clio, Frankie and Edith. Patience works in a care home looking after Edith and Edith is Clio's mother (Frankie is Patience's mum). The story then takes us on a very twisty, turny and convoluted trip trying to work out exactly who is who and what has happened to all of them over the years.

I'll apologise for this review seeming confusing but the book itself is a little that way (nonetheless enjoyable for being so though) and if I start trying to explain I'll give too many games away.

So the book is fun in parts, upsetting in others but will genuinely keep you riveted. As I said, try not to dwell on the relationships as it is all explained in the end.

A thoroughly enjoyable read that I'd recommend for anyone who enjoys having their brain scrambled.

Thanks to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for the advance review copy.

Alice Feeney knows how to write suspense! I was kept guessing the whole time and really enjoyed this book. It did get a little confusing but I was able to figure it out. Great book

Good Bad Girl, though tackling some hard hitting subjects was a little lighter in tone than some of Alice's previous books which I liked. The web was intricately woven to bring a group of strong female characters together in a plot that kept me guessing all the way through. A couple of times I had to read again as my brain couldn't compute the reveal that had just happened.

I felt the writing was realistic and I felt for some of them, and detested some others. I like it when a book can evoke emotion. What a fab read.

Omg! That is the o ly thing I can think of to sum this book up. It gives you a bit of everything, mystery, family drama, thriller, suspense....... its so much more than just a thriller! It's amazingly well written and keeps you captivated from the start. The characters are all really well written and developed into real life people with real life motivations. The plot is constantly moving forward and its not too character based an dhad plenty to keep you on the edge of your seat and when it all converges at the end..... my jaw was on the floor!!! I absolutely loved every second of this one

Alice Feeney does it again. Good Bad Girl had me hooked from the start. Told via the point of view of four main characters, the story unravels at a break neck. I found myself turning the pages as I raced to see how they were all linked, and what has really happened.

There's a murder at the centre of the plot, but also family drama and an unsolved crime from years past. I really enjoyed the unreliable narration aspect and was constantly questioning who to trust - who is good and who is bad.

As is Alice's signature style there are some stunning plot twists delivered throughout that had me going "oh wow" and I loved the references to books and reading that are littered throughout.

Good Bad Girl is tightly plotted, with short chapters that have you thinking "just one more" . This is one to devour, and is everything I enjoy in a thriller. I would happily recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for the eArc in exchange for a honest review.

You know it’s good when you stay up late two nights in a row to race through it.

Gripping story of motherhood, a missing girl, 3 suspects, 2 murders and 1 victim…

There’s always a good twist in Alice Feeney’s novels and this one didn’t disappoint either.

A good quick easy read, with plenty of twists and turns, a real page turner.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Whilst this was a good story there were parts I was confused with and sometimes was not fully sure who was who and what was what!
I always give some leeway with fiction as there has to be some things that are not always as would be in life to make it work but at times felt this crossed that and was a bit unbelievable
I always seem to struggle with this authors books more than most readers has to be said

Wow and double wow. Four women, four sets of secrets, one enormous mess! What happens when a counsellor, a prison librarian, a care home worker and an old lady become entangled in one another's lives, almost by accident?

The cast each have their own stuff going on, and what a lot there is to take in. For about a quarter of the book, we start to see the setting for each woman. After that point everything very quickly joins up and then right at the end, there's the most explosive reveal that I'd never hace expected.

It was "OMG" after "OMG" towards the end and thoroughly un-put-down-able.

Alice Feeney is an incredible writer, I love the twists and turns in her books and the way this one jumps between characters and timelines is just brilliant. There was so much going on from the very first page that I just couldn’t stop reading.

Another great Alice Feeney read!

I was gripped from the start. Some might use the ‘slow burner’ cliche but to me the pace was perfect to build a set of intriguing characters and a brilliantly interwoven plot.
Possibly a bit more contemporary mystery than thriller, the writing style reminded me of Bear Town by Fredrick Backman, one of my all time favorite books.

Having said that, mystery does still abound, and there are certainly one or two moments that had me surprised and in awe.

Favorite quote (and there are a lot of great quotes);

“There is often a gap between what we think and what we say: it’s where what we feel lives”

Thank you NetGalley and Pan MacMillan for a review copy

I really enjoyed this story. Full of suspense and twists.
And no bad language, always a plus.
I will definitely be reading more from this author.

Twenty years ago a baby was stolen, now twenty years later a woman is dead and the way to find the killer might be to find the baby.

This novel is told through multiple points of view as well as looking at the past and present. This was a complicated narrative with strong characters, I did guess part of this plot but loved how Feeney intertwines the characters.


This was an easy read with the ending of each chapter making you want to read the next. Feeney gives pure talent to suspense in their writing making them at the top of my go-to authors.

Loved the first chapter, but then it got a bit disjointed, with too many good/bad references. However, this then settled into a nail biting read, with revelations coming thick and fast, with a most satisfying conclusion. Is it as good as Daisy Darker? No, it isn’t. Is it a great read, well, apart from the few middle chapters, yes it certainly is. I guess the reader’s expectations have been heightened by the last novel, as this would be a fantastic read otherwise.

This is my first encounter with Alice Feeneys writing but it will not be my last. This book just drew me in so quickly and I finished it within the day.

Two murders - one victim - three suspects.

This was a fantastic read. I found it quite slow to start as we were introduced to the main characters in the book but it soon picked up pace and had lots of twists and turns. Kept me guessing pretty much up until the end.

The book starts off with a baby being taken from its pram in a supermarket on Mothers Day. The story thereafter is told in alternating chapters by four main characters. Frankie is a thirty something prison librarian who lives on a narrow boat - her teenage daughter ran away almost a year ago. Patience is an 18 year old girl who works in a care home and lives in an attic flat above an art gallery in Covent Garden. Edith is 80 years old and a resident in the care home, put there against her will by her daughter who also got rid of her beloved pet dog. Clio is Edith’s fifty something year old daughter - who lives alone in a pink town house in London - the two don’t get on and Edith blames her daughter for her being in the care home - she is plotting her escape. Everyone has secrets and everyone has been telling lies. I don’t want to say anymore for fear of revealing parts of the plot.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced read copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

Do you ever read a book and there’s not much actually happening. But the characters lives are chaotic and there’s so much going on there, but they won’t let you the reader in on any of it! So you haven’t a clue what is actually going on and it’s kind of confusing. So you keep reading hoping that it will start to make sense and somewhere you might actually start enjoying it!!

This is that book and this is how I felt for the majority of it. Four main characters who all think that no one knows who they really are or what secrets they are hiding, when in actual fact the others do know who they are. These women are all linked somehow and it has something to do with a missing baby from a supermarket many years previously.

I enjoyed the last part of the book better, things where starting to come to the surface and make more sense and things that I had suspected where revealed. There were definitely some surprises that shocked though I felt that they were a bit far fetched and ridiculous.
Thank you to NetGalley and Pan MacMillan for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Thank you for the review copy.

A fast read, a little repetitive in places and the ending felt a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book but would really recommend for a good holiday read!

Best feeney book yet! Loved it! It had such a strong emotional core and what a plot twist as welll. I will not get over that plot twist for a long long time. This was much better than the one in daisy darker

I have no idea how to review this book!

I've read it in just a day and have flown through it. Despite the characters mostly all being awful people, I could not stop reading about them and trying to work out the connections and crossing paths. Though some felt a bit too neat.

I feel like a lot of this book was inner monologues which sometimes bordered on the repetitive, and the plot wasn't as meaty as a result, at least until the second half when all of the secrets started to reveal themselves.

I felt like the ending was a bit rushed, and I didn't feel that there was a reasonable explanation for all of the plots provided. Likewise, the final chapter felt forced. I couldn't understand, as a mother myself, how some things were just forgotten or ignored.

The standard Feeney misdirection/unreliable narrator devices were used cleverly and made it feel complex and twisty.

So I'm torn between a three and four star rating. I think I'm going three star but a stronger ending I may have upped it.