Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. It’s been on my shelf for months and I just got to it 🤪.


I honestly don’t know why I waited so long to read this one because I LOVED it! There were twists and turns along the way that were jaw dropping.

Read this book if you love thrillers.

Oh this was good!!!
I won't say Iya the best thriller I have read lately but it was good. I have a problem with how boring it got at some point and that the twist wasn't even that good hehehe. At least for me!!! That's my personal opinion, but I noticed many people enjoyed it so I'll say give it a chance if you like light thrillers and some mystery !!!

Thank you Netgalley, Boldwood Books & Joanne Ryan for my arc in exchange for an honest opinion.

This is a GREAT thriller from Joanne Ryan! Be warned - it is VERY hard to put down - clear your schedule before delving in to avoid disappointment!!

Lena, having split up with Gareth, her partner of more than a decade, finds herself shafted financial having no legal claim to the house she paid the mortgage on, as such she rents a property in a desirable street. She quickly begins to question this move however, as the family next door seem openly hostile towards her. This coincides with other residents of the street receiving threatening notes that allude to the disclosure of secrets they hold. Before the novel is out Lena will find herself in the midst of a very serious crime!

This is a great story and it is written beautifully. Lena's neighbours have a young son, and a small part of the narrative written from his perspective is particularly poignant and adds a little extra magic to this superb thriller.

I would 100% recommend this novel to fans of British psychological fiction.

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

When you move to a new place, your life will be different. But not so much as what happened to Lena in Mandalay Close!

After getting separated from her partner, Lena had no choice but to shift to a new place. But someone wasn't happy with her move and soon after, her neighbours started getting letters implying something wrong they did. When a murder happens, she knows that she will be the one to take the fall for it. But who would go to these extreme lengths to destroy Lena's life? Read this book to find out!

Mandalay Close had everything to keep me hooked. There were neighbours who had a lot of things to hide and Lena, a seemingly innocent woman, who too harboured her own secrets. It was a matter of who would sacrifice a person to conceal their secret and let me tell you that it was a shock for me!

I mean, the whole neighbourhood had something to hide and the author has brilliantly shifted the centre of focus, so that no one could guess who the culprit was.

Don't Let Her In is a psychological thriller where Lena's arrival leads to the secrets harboured by a whole neighbourhood to be reveal one-by-one.

It as an average read that I found it quite wording. For this reason, I personally found it difficult to find my groove in the book. Still an enjoyable read.

This was an easy to read, fast paced thriller with likeable characters as well as those you love to hate. Short chapters told from different viewpoints and it keeps you guessing.
My thanks to NetGalley and the Publishers for sending me this ARC in return for an honest review.

I found it really dull and unengaging. Thanks for the arc though. Characters were bland and it seemed too similar to other mainstream authors.

This was a quick read for me, I loved the characters and how the story flowed!
After being cheated on and tossed to the side for a younger woman, Lena believes she found a perfect apartment in Mandalay Close. It all starts when series of neatly addressed envelopes drop through the letterboxes of the occupants of Mandalay Bay. Lena moves in close to the day when the letters begin to arrive. Are the two events connected? Several people think so, and Lena starts to regret her decision to move into the prestigious area. There are secrets in there neighbourhood and someone may end up dead so their kept! This was a fast paced quick read!

TRIGGER WARNING: domestic abuse
Lena is adjusting to a change in circumstances. Her boyfriend cheated on her and she was forced to find a new home. Things don't run smoothly and something sinister is going on in her new street with poison pen letters and random acts of vandalism that start when she moves in. Will Lena be the next target or is she to blame?
Don't Let Her In is a psychological thriller set in the UK.
Goodness, I felt extremes of emotion with this book! Gareth has treated Lena shabbily and her best friend Kate takes her for granted. But Lena allows herself to be treated like a doormat so my sympathy was limited. There are other despicable characters in the book as we meet Lena's new neighbours.
The book is written from multiple points of view in the first person so we can see emotions and actions clearly. However the majority of the book centres on Lena. I don't know if the varied first person perspectives were necessary although young Jolyon's narrative was absolutely heartbreaking as he tries to make sense of his father's violence.
There are some huge twists and I did guess them as there are some big hints. The plot has several strands to bring together (poison pen letters, Lena's personal life, a murder, her neighbours' secrets) and I thought everything resolved although my credulity was stretched considerably.
Don't Let Her In is an enjoyable psychological thriller about secrets and lies in a small community.

Don't Let Her In had me completely hooked from start to finish. It was so twisty and turny and I just could not put it down.

Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for my ARC.

Was an easy read, with short chapters. Once I started to read it I was hooked and found it hard to put it down. It was full of twists and turns throughout a good read.

Do we really know our neighbours? Is everyone really what they seem like or is there something darker beyond the surface?

Picked this book up for its premise and the letters narrative. Quite an interesting concept which reminded me of 'The Moving Finger' but this of course is a completely different take on the premise. A quick read that's very well paced. I could glide through the chapters very fast due to the writing style which packs the twists. Good mix of suspicious characters and red herrings to make the story interesting. Would want to read more by the author!

Thank you Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this e-arc in exchange of my unbiased review.

I enjoyed reading this intriguing story, filled with twists and turns that kept me guessing whodunit and going back and forth to my suspects, and got my ah-ha moment at the end. Overall interesting read.

This is a great keep you on the edge of your seat book! Was an easy read, with short chapters.

Lena is working on starting over after her long time partner cheated on her and kicked her out of his house. Lena moves to a small place in Mandalay Close that appears to be a really great neighborhood. The day Lena moved in, the neighbors got letters, outing some deep dark secret that they have been hiding. From there, Lena starts to find out who the neighbors really are. Sweet Prue next door that lives with and takes care of her mother. Oliver, Rachel and their son on the other side of her, too bad Oliver surely is not a nice guy. What seemed like a quiet, well to do neighborhood, really wasn't what it seemed, and Lena is soon to find out!

I do think that this book could be improved a bit by adding some additional suspense in the beginning of the novel to help keep readers engaged. Maybe something about Lena and the app shes using to meet random men and sleep with them?

Don't Let Her In by Joanne Ryan was another book that once I started to read it I was hooked and found it hard to put it down. It was full of twists and turns throughout with made an excellent psychological thriller. A great book to get your teeth into especially for your day off or your holiday.

I highly recommend Don't let her in. I loved it.

Big thank you to NetGalley, Boldwood and especially Joanne Ryan the author for my ARC.

A love a good Joanne Ryan book and this one did not disappoint. On the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one except for Lena’s. Someone clearly wants to implicate her, to ruin her new life and turn everyone against her. She’s made an enemy, but who, and why? Everyone seems so nice, so trustworthy. So normal. But everything is not as it seems….so many twists and turns and a fantastic conclusion!

Do we ever know what goes on behind closed doors ?
After her boyfriend cheats on her Lena moves to Mandalay Close but the other residents try to force her out. Lots of characters but I found Oliver to be really nasty. Short chapters so it is easy to become engrossed and read "just one more" , A book I would definitely recommend.
Thanks to Netgalley for the chance to read an ARC in return for an honest review

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Review for 'Don't Let Her In' by Joanne Ryan.

Read and reviewed for NetGalley, Joanne Ryan, Boldwood, Book And Tonic, The Bold Book Club and Rachel's Random resources.

Publication date 18th April 2024.

This is the second book I have read by this author. I have also read 'Keep Your Friends Close' which I would also highly recommend.

This novel consists of 33 chapters. The chapters are short in length so easy to read 'just one more chapter' before bed...OK, I know yeah right, but still just in case!

'Don't Let Her In' discusses some topics that may upset some readers or may not be suitable for others. I like to point this out ahead of time in my reviews so you can judge if this book is for you or not. In this book Joanne discusses/includes domestic abuse and gambling addiction.

This book is very well written and had me hook, line and sinker from beginning to end. The descriptions were so in depth and vivid that it felt like I was standing next to the characters throughout.

This is another great read from the very talented Joanne Ryan and I am looking forward to seeing what she comes out with next!! i have previously read Joanne's 'Keep Your Friends Close' and while I enjoyed reading it I must say that this is definitely the better of the two books!! In this book we meet Lena who has recently found out that her boyfriend Gareth had cheated on her. They break up and Gareth and Lena ends up having to sleep in the spare room until Graham threatens to move his new 18 year old girlfriend in while Lena is still living there if she does not move out!! Lena, who owns her own cleaning business, ends up renting a small home known as the Coach House in Mandalay Close. It is a lovely street where the neighbours seem to keep themselves to themselves. That is until her new neighbour Oliver accuses her of throwing the dirt and weed she had pulled up from her drive all over his!! Lena denies doing it but she ends up having the police visit her questioning her about the damage on Oliver's car and poison pen letters that him and several other neighbours have received. With her left with nothing after the split from Gareth, her neighbours accusing her of all sorts and her best friend Kate asking her for money even when she has not paid her back the £500 she owes he from last year can Lena's life get any worse? What is Oliver's problem with her? What else is happening behind closed doors on Mandalay Close? Do we truly know our own neighbours? Well, pick up your copy of this gripping book to find out for yourself!! With a storyline filled with secrets, suspense, accusations, lies, twists and so much more this is a book that I just could not put down!! Joanne does a fantastic job using multiple protagonists from the perspectives of Leah, her neighbour Simon, Oliver's 8 year old son Jolyon and another neighbour Prue and weaving the chapters together perfectly to give the reader a bigger picture of what different characters are thinking and feeling without giving too much away whilst also adding more secrets and twists into the mix!! This storyline does include domestic abuse and violence which Joanne does an absolutely fantastic job of sensitively weaving it into the storyline while highlighting the red flags. She coveys the heartbreak, desperation and struggle that victims of domestic violence struggle with and after being in an abusive relationship for many years I am a huge believer that difficult topics such as abuse do need to be highlighted in books to help warn others of red flags and domestic violence while not highlighting the fact that someone is reading about this topic. Hopefully that makes sense but a huge congratulations to Joanne on writing about this difficult topic!! There were several things going on in the book from cheating to poison pen letters, threats to domestic abuse there is plenty of action to keep you turning the pages!! There is a range of characters who are all strong and realistic but many of them were unlikeable. When I dislike several characters in a book I normally tend to struggle with the storyline but in this case they all worked perfectly well with the storyline and I really enjoyed it! I did like Lean and although I don't agree with one of the things that she does I felt a huge amount of empathy for her for the way she was being treated by people that she had been nothing but nice to!! Sadly, this is something that happens so much in the world where people take advantage of other peoples kindness and it makes the storyline even more realistic. I was rooting for Lena from the start to finish and was hoping that things would work out for her although whether they do or not is for you to find out yourself when you grab your copy! I absolutely devoured it in one sitting of a few hours as every time I said I would just finish the chapter then get on with something else there was always an event happening in the book which meant that I just had to know what was going to happen next!! Joanne's evocative writing skills ensures the street, characters and atmosphere all come to life so it feels like you are in the storyline with the characters feeling their anger and fear. I was not expecting the twists so a HUGE congratulations to Joanne! I have read hundreds of thrillers so it is getting harder and harder to surprise me but Joanne took me on a rollercoaster ride of twists and turns where I didn't know who I could trust and by the end I think I had suspected each and every character!! A thoroughly good book that will make you wonder what your neighbours are up to and if they truly are who they say they are!! Well done Joanne on another success and here's to your next one!!

Make sure you read to the very end of the book to read the first chapter of Joanne's 'Keep Your Friends Close' which I have also read myself and would highly recommend.

Overall a gripping, mysterious and dark psychological thriller filled with twists!!!

285 pages.

This book is just 99p to purchase on kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited and £9.99 in paperback, at time of review, via Amazon which I think is an absolute bargain for this book!!!

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Secrets and lies aplenty in this story of neighbours and what goes on behind closed doors
Lena moves into her new home following the breakdown of her marriage, after meeting her new
neighbours they seem to dislike her for unknown reasons and are determined to force her out
of the street - things go dark pretty quickly in this fast moving engaging thriller

This was a good psychological thriller, It’s a page turner that keeps you on the edge of your seat with all the twists and turns throughout.. although I had guessed how this would end. The characters were great, and story itself was gripping and suspenseful and the style of writing was perfect.
I have enjoyed all the books that I have read by this author, I’m looking forward to the next one out. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys reading this genre.
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a honest review.