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Release Date: 11th January 2018 / Publisher: Bookouture

Format: Kindle / Pages: 329

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How far would you go to protect your child?

Maggie’s daughter Penny is her whole world… and she’d do anything to protect her. So when Maggie wakes one night to find a strange woman in her home, she runs to lock herself in her bedroom with her child. But Maggie knows why she’s come…

Someone has been targeting mothers and offering them a choice: do as he says or their child disappears. This stranger in her home has until dawn to follow his orders… but Maggie too has the ‘choice’ to make. Can she put the pieces together to stop the cycle before her time is up?

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the Publisher, Bookouture for this review copy, given in exchange for an honest review. Also thank you to Noelle from Bookouture for organising the Blog Tour.

The Babysitter kidnaps single mothers’ children. He will only return the children if the mothers follow his instructions. Maggie lives alone with her baby daughter, Penny. One night she awakes to find a strange woman in her house. This woman, Holly, has to follow orders to protect her daughter Abigail from being harmed. Maggie knows exactly what Holly has come to do and she needs to stop Holly from doing it. Can Maggie do this or will Holly do anything to get her daughter back?

My second Richard Parker book. I really enjoyed the first book I read, Hide and Seek, so was excited to start this one. It was a great read, a real ‘edge of your seat’ thriller. Being a parent, you can put yourself in the position of these women, knowing full well that you would do absolutely anything to keep your child safe. The one thing that struck me with this book was how few characters there were. Initially, I wasn’t sure how this would work – would there be enough to keep me interested if there are only two or three main characters? Strangely enough, it worked! It was refreshing not to have to try and remember who everyone was, and where they came into the storyline!

It was a tense read, and made me feel uneasy at times at the thought of someone watching you and someone wanting to kill you. It was also quite gruesome by the end, so if blood and gore isn’t your thing you may want to close your eyes!! There wasn’t any major plot twist at the end, but the story keep my gripped all the way through with all the ends being wrapped up just right by the end.

A very creepy and unsettling thriller but one that once I started, I just couldn’t put it down!

Richard Parker was formerly a TV script writer, script editor and producer before turning his hand to penning twisted standalone thrillers.

KEEP HER SAFE is his latest book published by Bookouture on January 11^th 2018. HIDE AND SEEK was his fifth book published in August 2017. FOLLOW YOU was his fourth psychological thriller. Reviewers are saying it’s Bookouture’s darkest crime novel to date. STALK ME was his third and rode high in the UK and US charts. SCARE ME was his second. Hollywood movie rights have been acquired by major US studio, Relativity Media. Star of PRISON BREAK and screenwriter of dark horror thriller STOKER, Wentworth Miller, has written the big screen adaptation. STOP ME, Richard’s darkly fiendish debut, was shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award.