Thank you for the ARC! This book provided me with some good tips, which is exactly what I wanted. I found it helpful and recommend.

A nice guidebook for anyone is interested in writing a suspense/mystery book. Takes you through the steps in helping you to develop your characters and plot. I plan to re-read in the near future.

This is a good reference book for writers who are considering writing a thriller. But I think it also helps with story structure in a book that has conflict and suspense. I will definitely use this as a go to when I'm feeling stuck in my writing.

In How To Write a Chiller Thriller Sally Spedding manages to coach, motivate and entertain at the same time. I found the combination to be wonderful and I am ready to (try) find the time to write the next great chiller thriller, or at least one that isn't horrible.

This book offers ideas and suggestions based openly and honestly on Spedding's own experience yet stopped well short of being a "do as I say" guide to writing. In fact, she emphasizes from the beginning to be who you are and write what you want (all such statements come with qualifiers, of course, but the point stands) as long as it is from your passion.

I found many of the exercises and examples very useful and am planning to take some time this spring and work my way more methodically through the book. Who knows, maybe next year at this time I will be asking for reviews! Or not, but I'll certainly enjoy trying to get to that point.

I would highly recommend this to aspiring writers within the chiller thriller genre (kinda a hybrid of horror and thriller, she defines both terms at the beginning) and I also believe the tips and ideas are valid across genres for the most part so my recommendation carries over to any writer of fiction.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.

The book never came through properly. I could not read it. Sorry. =(