📆 Publication Date: 26th March 2026
⭐️3/5 stars
📖 Length: 448 pages
📱 Format: ePUB
⏳ Read Time: 5 days
Synopsis
Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’.
Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase, and he’s sitting ominously close.
With secrets unravelling from the past, can Mark piece together the jigsaw of his life in order to save his family?
Or will their journey come to a fatal end?
What I thought
First of all, apologies that this review is a few days late — work and life have very much been doing the most lately.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This is my first book by C. M. Ewan, and overall I landed on 3 stars.
I really liked the idea of the whole story taking place on the Eurostar from Paris to London. A thriller in such a closed setting should have been right up my street, and it definitely had that tense, claustrophobic feel that I enjoy.
That said, I couldn’t help feeling like this kind of plot has been done before. It didn’t feel as fresh as I wanted it to, and for a book set over one train journey, parts of it dragged more than I expected.
The twist was good, even if I did see it coming, so while it wasn’t exactly shocking, it still worked.
What really stopped this from being a higher rating for me was the ending. I won’t say anything that spoils it for anyone with this on their TBR, but it honestly just annoyed me. After sticking with the slower parts, I wanted something that felt a bit more satisfying.
Overall
Overall, it was a decent thriller and an easy enough read, but it didn’t completely wow me.
Interested in picking this up? Links below
On Amazon – here
Bookshop.Org – here
Thanks to NetGalley, Pan Macmillan, and the author for this ARC in return for an honest review.
Until next time… 🖤
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