6 Ripley Avenue by Noelle Holten
ONE HOUSE
EIGHT KILLERS
NO WITNESSES
Jeanette is the manager of a probation hostel that houses high risk offenders released on license.
At 3am one morning, she receives a call telling her a resident has been murdered.
Her whole team, along with the eight convicted murderers, are now all suspects in a crime no one saw committed…
Don’t miss the first nerve-shredding standalone thriller from Noelle Holten, author of the Maggie Jamieson series.
About the author
Noelle Holten is an award-winning blogger at www.crimebookjunkie.co.uk. She is the PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, a leading digital publisher in the UK, and worked as a Senior Probation Officer for eighteen years, covering a variety of risk cases as well as working in a multi agency setting. She has three Hons BA's - Philosophy, Sociology (Crime & Deviance) and Community Justice - and a Masters in Criminology. Noelle's hobbies include reading, attending as many book festivals as she can afford and sharing the booklove via her blog.
Dead Inside - her debut novel with One More Chapter/Harper Collins UK is an international kindle bestseller and the start of a new series featuring DC Maggie Jamieson.
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Review
‘6 Ripley Avenue’ has to be the most unique setting for a crime fiction book I have read all year. A locked room mystery set in a halfway house, with a whole host of interesting characters, a twisty plot and it was a compulsive page turner! But what made this book is how authentic it felt due to Noelle’s previous experience working as a probation officer! There was a lot of detail and nuances that this brought to a brilliant conception.
Jeanette is the manager of a probation hostel and receives a call which turns out to be her worst nightmare. One of the residents Danny has been murdered in the common room and the culprit is either one of the other residents or a member of her staff. Eight people, one locked house and one dead man! Local opinion was already leaning toward the negative about the hostel and this is bound to worsen it.
The short chapters which swap between multiple POV’s and finish with mini cliffhangers just encouraged you to fly through this book. I stayed up way too late to finish this one and I know this is meant to be a standalone but I could see a full series centred round Sloane as an investigative journalist. For me she was the star of this book! But then I also loved Helen the nosey next-door neighbour who goes undercover to rumble the evil goings on! Did I guess who the killer was, yeah I did. Did that matter, no it didn't as it was the process of Sloane figuring it out that was the joy of this book. Jeanette rightly was portrayed as being too overwhelmed by bureaucracy and paperwork, and staff ineptitudes to play at being Miss Marple!
Did I catch a little cross-over character along the way???
I loved this one - let me know if you pick it up!
