Book info

• Title The Bad Seeds
• Author C. J. Skuse
• Year 2024
• Genre Thriller

Sweetpea is coming home at last... Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything's coming up roses for ex-serial killer Rhiannon Lewis, right? Wrong. Her husband has just been shot, and the daughter she left behind in the UK is desperately ill. She’s got no choice but to flee the States and return home, back to her roots, where she’s in danger of being recognised and arrested at any moment. Only nothing is quite as it seems... With a series of bad choices in front of her, and the authorities right behind, Rhiannon's in a hell of a hole and she needs to dig herself out of it pronto. But help can come from the most unlikely places. And even more unlikely people...

Thoughts

As with all the other books in this series, I really loved it - great dark humour, completely relatable moments alongside rather terrifying serial killer stuff. It’s got depths, really trying to understand the humanity of these extreme situations. I wasn’t sure about the kidnapping, did it make sense? But as things started to draw to a conclusion, I thought it worked well enough and put the puzzle pieces in the right place to come to an end, so I was happy enough with it. It seems like this might be the last in the series, which is a shame as they’re so fun to read, but if it is, it’s been a heck of a ride.

Rating: 4 / 5