On a Quiet Street by Carla Kovach
Genre: Psychological thriller, Domestic thriller
Read: 8th January 2024
Published: 15th January 2024
★★★★★ 5 stars
DESCRIPTION:
Every family has its secrets. Some are more deadly than others…
I live on a quiet tree-lined street with my perfect husband Cain. But when 18-year-old Charlotte knocks on the front door, what she says has me questioning just how well I really know my husband.
‘I was adopted as a baby and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was told they live here.’
My heart races as I fear Cain has been keeping a huge secret from me. Does he have a child he never told me about? And has he been lying all these years?
I can’t trust anything Cain says. Desperate for answers, I agree to meet Charlotte in secret. But it’s Charlotte who is full of questions: about our lives, our relationship. It’s only when she lets slip the name of the road I used to live on, that I realise how much she knows about me, too…
Cold fear floods through my body. My husband may not have told the truth, but his lies are nothing compared to mine. If Charlotte knows my darkest secret, my whole life could fall apart. How far will I have to go to keep the truth hidden?
If you loved The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and Gone Girl you will be absolutely gripped by this heart-stopping psychological thriller.
MY THOUGHTS:
Everyone has its secrets...Some are more deadly than others...
What a delightful, and creepy, little gem this is! ON A QUIET STREET is a domestic thriller with all the psychological chills that lend a sinister and eerie air to the tale. Packed full of lies upon lies and a wealth of secrets, deceit and unlikeable characters, it was really hard to know who to trust.
Leah and her husband Cain live a quiet life on a quiet street in a quiet village. But with Cain's late night meetings and hidden text messages, Leah is suspicious of his behaviour. And she has reason to for many years before Cain had a six month fling with their then neighbour who, upon discovery, upped and left disposing her house in a quick sale.
So now, is it any wonder that Leah is suspicious of his behaviour which bears a striking resemblance to when he was cheating on her. She smells the strange perfume on him and his continual cancellation of plans they've made for another "late meeting", Leah is sure Cain is at it again. The question is, with who?
And then one day a stranger knocks on their door searching for her biological parents and Leah immediately suspects that Cain had fathered a child with their neighbour during their fling and this 18 year old woman had now come in search for answers. But when the woman, Charlotte, reveals that it's Leah she's looking for, the tables are turned and she wonders whether the secrets that she's been hiding for the past two decades are about to come to the surface threatening her now comfortable life.
I love this author's Gina Harte series and have enjoyed one or two of her standalones. But this one is one of her best, despite its slow start and rather unlikeable characters. It is hard to connect with anyone as they really are unlikeable. Leah is irritating for the most part with her constant suspicions and sniping at Cain. And Cain? Well, anyone could see right through his lies as she tried to weasel his way out of every lie Leah caught him in. Her mother was horrible, the neighbour was just as horrible, the three teenage girls were sneaky.
But what made this story work so well was the way Kovach delivered it. First, from Leah's perspective, then "the girl's" as she slowly revealed every plot twist until it all fell into place. And then that final page was just a perfect ending.
This was a most enjoyable read that addictive from the very first and I couldn't put it down until I got to the very end, devouring the book in one sitting.
I would like to thank #CarlaKovach, #Netgalley and #Bookouture for an ARC of #OnAQuietStreet in exchange for an honest review.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Since then she has written & produced several stage plays, has four self-published books, has acted in several independent films and is currently in the final stages of production of her feature horror film, Penny for the Guy.
She now writes full time as well as co-owning a film, photography & video production company located in the heart of Redditch town centre.
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