Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: The Book Club Murders by Alan Gorevan

Alan Gorevan is an intellectual property lawyer and a crime fiction writer from Dublin with some 15 books to his credit. He published The Book Club Murders independently in October 2023.

Izzie O’Brien has had it with her controlling possessive boyfriend. She waited until he was at work on her day off and packed everything she owned into her tiny Fiat and drove south to Dun Laoghaire, a former fishing village where her aunt Elaine had lived. Elaine died only 10 weeks before in a household accident and she left her terraced house to Izzie, who was grateful for a place to hide from Adam, whom she found increasingly frightening.

Adam’s possessiveness had been worrying but the final straw was when Izzie discovered Adam’s previous girlfriend had been murdered and Adam had been the primary suspect. Unfortunately she could easily believe it. Both her aunt and her friends had warned her about Adam but she was so smitten that she could not hear what they were saying. Now she understood everything they were telling her.

Louise, one of the Izzie’s new neighbors, watched Adam throwing a fit on Izzie’s doorstep. After he gave up and left, but not before smashing her car window, Louise invited Izzie to her house for the weekly book club, where she was warmly welcomed by Kate, Tess, Dee, and Melanie. The group was shocked and stunned when Kate died on the way home that night, stumbling onto the rocks below the pier where the garda assumed she’d wandered after drinking a bit too much.

With multiple narrative threads the story and characters in this book could be hard to keep straight but the various subplots come together neatly. The major account is Izzie’s attempt to remove Adam from her life and move on amid his determination to force her to return. The rapid fire pacing and the crisp writing are propulsive and I raced through this book without realizing how quickly I was reading. Highly rated on Amazon and Goodreads. For fans of domestic thrillers and strong characters.

 

 

·                Publisher: ‎Independently published (September 30, 2023)

·                Language: ‎English

·                Paperback: ‎408 pages

·                ISBN-13: ‎979-835381112

 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3WuyMUG

 

 

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Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.