My thoughts about Holly Watt’s The End Of The Game is a tour de force that really has it all, a great story, outstanding characters, and great suspense. Holly Watt’s The End Of The Game is a gripping, powerful drama about match fixing, gambling and murder mayhem that will blow your mind. This excellent, thoughtful drama contrasts two conflicting ways of looking at the world and especially at responsibility. Holly Watt’s fourth book in the journalist Cassandra Casey Benedict series The End Of The Game, begins with When match fixing leads to murder, only journalist Casey Benedict can expose the truth and risk her own life doing so. Casey Benedict is the globe-trotting star reporter at London paper the Post. Casey is tenacious, fearless, inventive and still in recovery after her last major story jeopardised her life, and all of those she held most dear. Invited to spend the day at the races at the invitation of a former colleague, it is meant to be a chance to relax and recover. But when she sees a man being hunted across the racecourse, a horrified Casey intervenes to save his life and in doing so finds herself face to face with her next major investigation. Match fixing. Gambling. And murder.
From London to Budapest, from snowy mountain retreats to glitzy Mediterranean coastal resorts, Casey is on a desperate hunt to find the person behind the shadowy organisations responsible and expose them to the public before anyone else’s lives are lost. Holly Watt’s story is incredible as it does total justice and takes the story to a whole new level. Holly Watt’s thriller is also gripping and raises tension levels considerably. The best part about Holly Watt’s The End Of The Game is its gripping second half, especially the last hundred pages. This is where the whole book unravels by introducing one twist after the other. The situations are seamlessly put together making the whole sequence exciting and believable. I would like to say a big thank you to author Holly Watt, and publishers Raven books, for kindly giving me a chance to read and review this excellent book on NetGalley. All in all Holly Watt’s The End Of The Game establishes the mood for an alluringly flexible and climactic noir thriller right from the start. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥