Today it’s my turn on the blog tour for Five Fatal Flaws. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

A missing baby. A dead politician. Five suspects.

When psychotherapist Trudy’s baby disappears one afternoon, the individual motives of four members of her post-trauma therapy group are gradually revealed. But when the police begin investigating baby Benny’s disappearance, the seemingly unrelated death of a town councillor brings each member of the group under firm suspicion, along with Trudy herself.

Five Fatal Flaws is a whodunnit psychological suspense with a #MeToo thread, for fans of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley.

Shortlisted for the Page Turner awards.

Review:

I was drawn to Five Fatal Flaws by its unique and intriguing premise and it absolutely did not let me down. From the outset, it is very fast paced and full of tension, and all the chapters are quite short so it is very easy to read “just one more chapter”! The story has quite a few twists in it, which I loved, particularly as there were some that I did not expect.

I’ve been involved in group therapy before, and I hated every second, but Louise Mangos has the experience and the group dynamics pretty much nailed on for me. There are chapters from the perspective of each participant as well as Trudy, the therapist, and this really helped me to understand what each character was going through. Louise Mangos has developed the characters incredibly well and I found myself in a position where I felt sympathy for them, but also had to consider that they could be the perpetrator. This is a really interesting balancing act for the author and I feel she achieves it brilliantly.

Throughout the plot of Five Fatal Flaws, Louise Mangos explores several important themes that make the novel incredibly relevant to today’s world. The issues are very well researched and approached in a very empathetic and thought provoking way. There are large parts of the novel that really resonated with me, and I will be thinking about all the characters and their circumstances for a long time to come.

I am excited to see what this author does next!

Five Fatal Flaws is available from Amazon.

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