On my blog today, I’m taking part in the blog tour for the new thriller by Ruby Speechley, Guilty. With thanks to Rachel from Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me to take part.
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“You’re invited to my farewell party. I’ve got something to tell you before I die…”
Heather wants to leave this world with a clear conscience.
One confession. One secret. Two scores to settle.
Heather accepted the fate of her terminal diagnosis long ago, but now the time is nearing, she arranges a huge farewell party for her nearest and dearest.
She wants to say goodbye to everyone personally, but there’s another reason she wants the people in her life to gather.
She knows who killed young Simon Eyre all those years ago, and she needs to tell. The boy deserves justice.
But she doesn’t realise that by freeing her own inner demons, she’s unleashing much worse secrets, and putting everyone at risk…
MY THOUGHTS
Guilty is an emotive page turner by Ruby Speechley and it is a real roller coaster of a read. I immediately connected to Heather, particularly, as it is revealed early on in the novel that she is dying of cancer. When we meet her she is getting her affairs in order before her situation gets too bad. She is also planning a party, as her way of saying goodbye to everyone she loves, but there are a lot of people who still don’t know she is dying, and she is planning on telling them all at the party. But at the party things take a very dark turn, and we begin to realise that Heather may not be the person we think she is.
When we meet Heather, she comes across as kind and caring, someone who will do anything for the people she loves. She certainly does seem like the type of person who you would want to have in your corner. I could feel the love she has for her family and her friends and the love they have for her. It seems so unfair that she has to succumb to this disease, but Heather has now reluctantly accepted her fate. But she also has a dark secret, and Heather feels that now her time is nearing its end, she cannot go to her grave without revealing what that secret is. This is the part that really intrigued me as we follow Heather. I could really sense how much this meant to her, to finally unburden herself and let the truth, of whatever it was that happened in her past, be known.
Ruby Speechley ups the tension so, so well as the party gets underway, and it seems that there are people there who want Heather to suffer. The book really darkens at this point and I raced through the chapters to find out what was going to happen and what the secret was Heather wanted to let go of. This is what makes this story so intense and so intriguing as well.
The final revelations were shocking and Ruby Speechley does a brilliant job of bringing everything together in an explosive finale. I thought it was executed really well in a highly entertaining way. Guilty is a brilliant psychological thriller. I really enjoyed it.
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Publication date: 7th June 2024
Print length: 284 pages
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