How to Commit the Perfect Murder in Ten Easy Steps by Jessica Huntley Published by Independently Published on April 1, 2024
Genres: Dark Humor, Women's Adventure Fiction
Pages: 319
Format: ARC, eBook
Source: Booksirens
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A step-by-step guide to committing the perfect murder. Best get your pen and notebook out for this one.
Clueless ... meets ... Gone Girl!
Ashleigh Carmichael has it all: money, fame, expensive cars, a multi-million-pound London house and the adoration of millions of social media followers.
Curtis Redding does not have it all: homeless, penniless, down on his luck and he doesn’t even own a phone. Plus, he’s wanted to kill Bryan Matthews since he was a child.
Ashleigh (through no fault of her own) winds up getting dragged into the power-play between Curtis and Bryan, who clearly have ongoing issues with each other. Bryan has inadvertently kidnapped her, and is holding her Fendi handbag for ransom. Therefore, where her bag goes … she goes, so she joins him on a road trip around the country. Curtis, meanwhile, is tracking them every step of the way.
Can she help the men overcome their differences? Or will she end up fighting for her life too?
Plus … will she ever get her handbag back? (There’s personal stuff in there!)
My Thoughts
The most recent book by Jessica was a real page-turner, containing a lot of unexpected twists and turns that simply captivated me from the very first chapter. She is good at creating interesting mystery puzzles that will puzzle the reader along the story. As soon as I believed I had identified the perpetrator, she would introduce another turn of events that made my conclusion questionable.
In the last engrossing chapters, the puzzle did click and I was dumbfounded with how many clever plot points I had missed.
I still love Jessica as a thriller author, she is a favorite of mine. She is the best in complex, addictive storytelling and leaving the readers clueless. Her latest novel and all her books should be added to the reading list of all lovers of thrillers. I highly recommend “How to Commit the Perfect Murder in Ten Easy Steps”, an awesome read!
Thank you to the author and Booksirens for allowing me to read and review this book.
About Jessica Huntley
Jessica is, and always has been, a huge fan of psychological and suspense thrillers. Her favourite authors are Chris Carter and John Marrs. She loves the twists and turns and shocking reveals and uses the books she reads as inspiration to write her own.
Jessica wrote her first book at age six. Between the ages of ten and eighteen, she had written ten full-length fiction novels as a hobby in her spare time between school and work.
At age eighteen, she left her hobby behind and joined the British Army as an Intelligence Analyst where she spent the next four and a half years as a soldier. She attempted to write more novels but was never able to finish them.
Jessica later left the Army and became a mature student at Southampton Solent University and studied Fitness and Personal Training, which later became her career. She still enjoys keeping fit and exercising daily.
She is now a wife, a stay-at-home mum to a crazy toddler and has a part-time time job as a freelance copy writer and editor. She lives in Newbury. During the first national lockdown of 2020, she signed up on a whim to a novel writing course, and the rest is history. Her love of writing came flooding back, and she managed to write and finish her debut novel, The Darkness Within Ourselves, inspired by her love of horror and thriller novels. She has also finished writing the My … Self trilogy, completed a Level 3 Diploma in Editing and Proofreading and has worked with four other authors on a collaborative horror novel entitled The Summoning.
She is now working on a new novel in her spare time, reads every day (thrillers…obviously) and is also a Thriller Ambassador for Tandem Collective.
Her latest suspense thriller, Jinx, is out on the 15th of April. It’s a gripping and emotional journey that will have you flipping those pages long into the night and has some real life accounts of her time as a soldier!
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