Sleep Tight

Thriller for sure. Rachel comes up with an interesting plot where love and one hell of a one makes a person do what normally is an abnormal behaviour.Olivia's boyfriend Dan disappears all of a sudden leaving a pregnant Olivia devastated. Adding further to her sadness is the death of her parents and that too in a very suspectible way. Robert comes to her aid and marries her. She's finally happy with her new life and they are blessed with two kids.Fast forward to nine years, Robert reports to police that Olivia and their three kids are missing.Enter Detectives Tom Douglas and Becky to investigate the case. Tom also had handled the investigation of disappearance of Olivia's boyfriend and death of her parents. His investigation yielded no fruitful result. Now, he's incharge of the missing Olivia and kids. His gut says that it's more than a missing case as it seems.Read this thriller to find out whether Olivia and kids are found out or not.

The book is boring and RachelAbbot repeats herself in the themes of broken marriages and an underlying current of abuse. Although she builds up the suspense the conclusions are always a dampener.

I have a number of the author’s books in my Kindle, and I’ve read quite a few of her works already. So far, each of the thriller from her was engrossing at its best.This one is as good although not as bloody or gruesome as the few I’ve read. This one is quite mild a thriller compared with the few. I still like it, though.It’s the way she laid out the chapters that make the chase for the culprit to be nailbitingly engrossing. Even the last chapter, which revealed the answer to the confusing case, seems to bring it all to a satisfactory close.Another good read for a dull weekend afternoon.

I’m not sure whether I am becoming jaded with psychological thrillers or whether Rachel Abbott is a particularly uneven writer. I found this novel dull and predictable after the likes of ‘And so it Begins”, which seemed to me so much more imaginative and inventive. Here, Robert and Olivia seem to me to be stock characters, and the situation, the stock one in so many stories (and sadly in reality) of domestic control and abuse. The police presence via the familiar Tom and Becky is a reasonable steady backcloth to the action, but these characters scarcely develop from one story to the next. At least we are spared the presence of Jack, Tom’s wild but predictable brother. Instead we have the rather unpleasant Sophie, who is really little more than an instrument of the plot. I really think the author should abandon her melodramatic endings, which we can forecast the endings to far too soon in advance. Overall sadly disappointing.

Once again, Rachel Abbott has written a thriller which had me hooked from the first page. Is this the last book in this series? I hope not! I can't get enough of Tom Douglas, especially now he has ---- more or less ---- tamed Leo. And what is the secret about his brother? Will he find the answers among all the paper work? Come to a conclusion that there definitely is a Book 4.I loved the twists and turns to this story. Liv and Dan, so much in love until Dan's brother, Samir, shows up to put the cat amongst the pigeons. When Liv discover she is pregnant, she believes that Dan won't leave her, but to her dismay he does a vanishing trick after their daughter was born. Losing Dan and also her parents----who died in mysterious circumstances----Liv is in the depths of despair and turns to Robert----who has conveniently appeared on the scene----for comfort.Is Robert the man he seems to be---tender, loving, and caring? Or is he a creepy stalker? No spoilers.Tom sure had his job cut out in trying to solve this case.

This was my first DCI Tom Douglas novel, and judging by the standard, it won't be my last.Robert Brookes vanishes with his three children one night, leaving his wife Olivia distraught. After the police come to the house and start to investigate, Robert and the children reappear, claiming he was only taking them out for a while. Two years later, it is Olivia who has vanished with the children, and she is not coming back. What is going on?DCI Tom Douglas investigates along with his assistant Becky Robinson, who is smarting from a failed love affair.Rachel Abbot cleverly weaves a pattern for the reader to follow, although nothing is as it seems. There is clearly a psychopath involved, and a lot of planning. Olivia has her best friend Sophie, her former lover Danush, who has suddenly gone and his brother Samir. All have a part to play in this thrller.

It takes a special writer to keep the reader's interest going throughout the book, plus to tell a story that grips the imagination as well as stirs the emotions. Sleep Tight is one such book and Rachel Abbot is imaginative enough to be able to keep the interest going throughout each of her books.I particularly like the Tom Douglas thrillers as not only are they all different, but the ongoing story of the characters makes you want to know what they do next too. Clever - got me hooked.In short, if you like thrillers, with a twist, you will be hard pushed to find better than this.Highly recommended as are all Rachel's books.