Blog Tour – Bad Sweet Things

Title: Bad Sweet Things

Author: Maria Hoey

Genre: Mystery & Thriller

My Rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Source: ARC

Synopsis:

Keep your enemies close
But keep your friends closer…

Six women:

Each receive a copy of an old school group photo, in which their own face has been savagely scratched out.
Within a week, two of the women are dead.


Detective Sergeant Tina Bassett:

Known to colleagues as the Hound, she believes both women were murdered by the same person and that someone is intent on killing off the class of 98,

One by one ..

As the death toll rises , DS Bassett finds herself in a desperate race against time, as she delves deeper into the past to help uncover the catalyst to the unfolding rampage in the present.

Will she succeed in stopping a killer hell bent on having their revenge ?

Or will the class of 98 finally pay their price ..

Bad Sweet Things is the new gripping Irish Crime thriller from Maria Hoey, perfect for fans of Jane Casey , Claire McGowan and Claire Allan.

My Review:

I’d like to thank Zoe from Zooloo’s Book Tours for contacting me to take part in this blog tour.

Bad Sweet Things is an intense and thrilling read from cover to cover. I devoured this book in a day and was really intrigued to see how all the dots connected.

Our detective on the case, Tina, was formidable and determined to get to the bottom of the investigation. She followed her gut and was quite often right in her thinking and I too felt her frustration when those higher up didn’t share her views. I enjoyed the banter between her and JP, I thought they made a great team and complemented each other well.

As for the A – Team, what an awful group of women. I know that as teenagers there’s always an element of banter amongst youths but what they did was bullying, plain and simple. As adults some of them weren’t any better! I did not like Jennifer from the start and wasn’t sorry to see how she met her demise but even worse was her brother. I can honestly say I did not feel any sympathy for him at all.

As the story unravels and we learn more about the murderer and their past a part of me could understand their reasoning behind the killings. What they had endured was awful and to see the same crime committed again must of been horrendous.

Maria Hoey explores the depth of friendship and how quickly things can turn sour. Another great read for all crime lovers out there!

Author Info:

Maria is an author and poet from Dublin, Ireland.  Her poetry has appeared in Ireland’s foremost poetry publication, Poetry Ireland. Her short stories have featured in various publications and been shortlisted for a number of awards.  

In 2017, Maria’s debut novel, The Last Lost Girl was published by Poolbeg Press, and went on to be shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Debut Award 2018.  

Maria’s second novel, On Bone Bridge was published by Poolbeg in 2018. She has also had a book for children published by Poolbeg in 2019, The Little Book of Irish Saints. 

Bad Sweet Things was published in 2021 and listed in the Amazon Kindle Bestseller chart (Irish Crime).

Maria has one daughter, Rebecca, and lives in Portmarnock, Co Dublin, with her husband, Garrett, and their moustachioed cat, Midge.

Follow her at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lastlostgirl

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoeymaria/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MariaHoey

Buy Links

Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Sweet-Things-Maria-Hoey-ebook/dp/B09L4YHP9X

Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Sweet-Things-Maria-Hoey-ebook/dp/B09L4YHP9X

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