Review: The Girls Next Door - Mel Sherratt









Review: The Girls Next Door - Book #1 Detective Eden Berrisford Series - Mel Sherratt - October 2016

Scrolling through my kindle and trying to find something to read can sometimes be a difficult task especially if you are a mood reader like myself or someone again like myself who needs to get into a book within the first few pages to a chapter, otherwise, it ends up as a DNF. Could be a mixture of the weather and me just not feeling it but I had a spate of DNF thrillers - such a shame. However, in those DNFs always sit a few books I can finish and Mel Sherratt's The Girls Next Door was one of those. The book starts with a bang as Katie ends up out on the town with Nathan Lucas- a guy she has a love/hate - mainly hate relationship with. When a case of mistaken identity ends up with one of their classmates dead, along with Nathan and two others Katie finds herself charged with murder/manslaughter and sentenced to a juvie holding centre till their trial. The book then jumps a few months down the track and Katie's friends including Jess, Cayden, Stacey, etc are all attacked on the same night. The only difference though is during that night, they all came home except for one - Jess. Jess also happens to be Eden's niece and daughter of a single mother Laura who works for CrisisChat helping teens in need. Is Jess's kidnapping related to the attacks that her friends all suffered or a case of something much deeper and entirely different? The Girls Next Door has four different storylines running through the book, despite this at times it gets a bit muddy feeling but overall, it is easy to follow. The other thing is though this is pitched as an adult thriller, due to the main characters being teens - it has a young feel to it and I would say it would be more enjoyed by thriller readers aged 16-30's – the YA to NA crowd.


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