It Ends At Midnight: The addictive bestselling thriller from the author of Blood Orange

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 - It Ends at Midnight𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 - Harriet Tyce𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 - Thriller, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Suspense𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 - 336 pages𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 18+𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬:It's New Year's Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh's best postcodes. It's a moment for old friends to set the past to rights - and move on.The night sky is alive with fireworks and the champagne is flowing. But the celebration fails to materialise.Because someone at this party is going to die tonight.Midnight approaches and the countdown begins - but it seems one of the guests doesn't want a resolution.They want revenge.𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰:⭐⭐⭐⭐I decided to give Harriet Tyce's new book a go - after purchasing it, I got a message recommending it so it was obviously a lot better than I expected!I loved Blood Orange but felt like her second book, The Lies You Told, fell flat for me.However, this book redeemed her for me!It was such a brilliant level of suspense and I read it in 2 sittings, even staying up until 3am!I really enjoyed the mystery of the story and the flicking back and forth. I also LOVED that Harriet had different characters describe the crime scene throughout the book, from a fox to the crime scene photographer. It was a really cool detail that gave us more and more information about the scene, which helped you try to piece it together.I did guess most of the ending so it did lose a star for that. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend if you need a quick and gripping thriller!If you've read this, what did you think?#itendsatmidnight #harriettyce #psychologicalthriller #suspense #fourstarread #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #mrslaurenoliverreads #mrslaurenoliverreviews

**4.5 Stars**Where to start this is a tense psychological thriller. The main star of the book is Sylvie she is a ambitious Barrister and her goal is to become a judge and she is on her way to achieving her goal. She has a childhood friend called Tess who is married to Marcus. They both share a secret. Sylvie is enjoying a new relationship with Gareth & has kept it under wraps fearful that she would jinx it.One day she arranges to meet Tess and is on the brink to tell all about Gareth, when this stops abruptly as Tess floors her with a revelation. Tess has one request Sylvie must find and track down Linda who was at school with them is the crux of the enormous secret they share.Linda is also a name that Sylvie desperately wants to keep buried. She feels she has no choice as because as Tess always has a way of talking everyone around.As Sylvie starts to look for Linda, her whole life go starts to unravel professionally and personally, then we eventually find out who the biggest liar is and someone has been playing the long game.

I was looking forward to reading this as I’d enjoyed the first novel and even liked the less popular second novel, but this just fell flat for me. It seemed very odd for a woman in her late 30s/early 40s to behave in the way Sylvia did. She seemed to drink a lot and just blurt things out which she then felt guilty about immediately, I felt as a barrister she would have had much better language and oral skills and have been smarter with the way she conversed with people. I struggled to believe Sylvia was actually not in her early 20s.The plot itself was a bit silly, I don’t usually guess what’s going to happen in novels, but within a couple of chapters I realised what the twist would be, so it must have been hidden pretty badly, this of course meant the twist wasn’t even a bend in the road and rather than a gasp I just sighed.All in all I’m a bit sad, I wanted Harriet Tyce to become a go to author for me but after this last book I’ll approach the next one with much more caution. I can’t recommend this and feel your time and money would be better spent elsewhere.

A good thriller that kept me hooked right to the end. Secrets and lies unravel leading up to the big reveal at Hogmanay. The perfect read to start 2023 on!

My third Harriet Tyce novel (Blood Orange being one of my all time best reads) and she doesn’t disappoint. As with all her work she spins a complex web with characters you just know you can’t trust. I love the way this book just builds and builds with tension, an absolute page turner. This is very well written and I love the use of words this author uses. I find her writing style unique and compelling. Bang on the money again Ms Tyce

The book is written in the present tense, which seem fashionable these days, and the timeline zigzags back and forth, another popular device. I wish we could go back to writing in the past tense, and starting at the beginning and finishing at the end.Despite being a drunk with poor judgment and questionable morals, Sylvie has established herself as a criminal barrister. She is good enough to appear for the defence in the appeal court on a serious charge of rape and win, and she aspires to be a judge. Her best friend of 20 years, Tess, is somebody she knew at school and the two of them have a sinister secret about evidence they gave in a trial for murder when they were at school. I thought the plot was rather thin and I found it slow. There's a sub plot but it's a red herring and it didn't add much to the main story. By about half way you know there are three time zones and so it's obvious what's going to happen. As usual I didn't guess the twist. By the end I was skim reading so I didn't grasp what really happened in 1990, which means that either it was obvious why Sylvie was lying or it's totally baffling. Can I be a total prude and ask why nobody has sex any more still less makes love? Does it always just have to be f***?