Blurb:

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things . . .

Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning up mess and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.

Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door . . . and their intentions aren’t good.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them . . .

Review:

Good Bad Girl starts with a bang, and from there the action is unrelenting and I found it really difficult to tear myself away. Alice Feeney’s writing style is fast paced and easy to read and I loved losing myself in this story. There is also a healthy dose of dark humour in the novel that really appealed to me.

The chapters in Good Bad Girl are written mostly from the perspectives of four women: Edith, Clio, Frankie and Patience. It is clear that these characters are connected in some way, but it is not immediately obvious how. I love the way the author drops little clues throughout the novel as to what has happened in the past as this made me eager to read on, get to know them and piece the story together. I did guess a few of the twists, but others surprised me, and I loved how everything came together.

Throughout Good Bad Girl, the reader is asked a series of moral questions and this gives the novel a few extra layers than most psychological thrillers I have read recently. I will be thinking about these characters for a while after I finished reading.

Good Bad Girl is available from Amazon.