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A great thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2020

This is a fantastic thriller which makes you doubt yourself. Ed and Claire are shocked when their daughter, Abbie, brings home her new boyfriend for the first time and announces they are to be married in a matter of weeks. To all appearances, Ryan seems to be the perfect catch. Handsome, clever, ex military, university educated, with a good job. It doesn't take long for him to win over Claire and Abbie's grandmother, Joyce. Ed, however, has a 'bad feeling' about Ryan. Unable to persuade his daughter to have a long engagement, he has a matter of weeks to prove he is right. At points, you are right behind Ed, as Ryan definitely seems too good to be true. Then you start to feel sympathy for Ryan- he has done nothing wrong and is genuinely a nice guy. This tension continues throughout. It's a book which is so hard to put down and when you do step away, it makes you think about what you just read and whose side you fall on. The dynamics of a family are so well observed. A brilliant read.

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A. W. Skinner

So irritating, I gave up less than halfway through.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2020

The behaviour of the central character, Ed, was so unrealistic and irritating, that I gave up less than halfway through.

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A great thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2020

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A. W. Skinner

So irritating, I gave up less than halfway through.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2020

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The behaviour of the central character, Ed, was so unrealistic and irritating, that I gave up less than halfway through.

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N M.

The Catch (drop it)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2020

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Theres an acknowledgement at the end to a family member, thanking him for his great knowledge on how to successfully bury a body. T M Logan would have been better putting this advice to use and buried this idea on a dark moor before it went to print. Far fetched, annoying characters and a story which would have been better used as a Cagney & Lacey script.

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Another great thriller from Logan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2020

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After reading The Holiday last year I couldn’t wait to read the next book by Logan and I wasn’t disappointed!

This tells the story of Ed the father of Abbie who has just got engaged, however Ed doesn’t trust the new man in his daughters life and can’t put his finger on why...Or is he just being an over productive dad!

This is such an easy thriller to get in too! It’s written in the perspective mainly of The dad however the other three main characters also lead some episodes.

I read this within a few days and love it! Highly recommended!

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T.M. Logan's best book yet!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2020

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I think The Catch is T.M. Logan’s best novel yet and I think it is definitely my favourite of his books so far. I flew through this book, and I devoured it all within just a couple of days.

When Abbey brings home her new boyfriend, Ryan, for the first time, her father, Ed immediately notices something odd about him. Outwardly, Ryan seems perfect, but Ed sees something dark within him. But is he just being paranoid? Abbey and her mother certainly think so. When Abbey and Ryan announce they are getting married in six weeks time, Ed is determined to stop it. Ed can’t shake off the bad feeling he has about Ryan, and he won’t let his daughter make the wrong decision. But is Ed only causing a rift with his own family?

T.M. Logan always manages to get the tension going in his books very early on. I knew there was something not quite right with Ryan, from the moment Ed first claps eyes on him. From the start, I was rooting for him to find the answers and T.M. Logan keeps the tension, turning up a notch as the countdown to the wedding begins. Ed knows that he only has limited time to find the truth about Ryan. This is what keeps the tension going as Ed starts to delve into Ryan’s past, and Ed begins to use surveillance to track where Ryan is going. But this action Ed was taking made me think that he was putting himself in unnecessary danger. At this point, I didn’t know if it would be a good thing for Ed to stop what he was doing and listen to his wife and daughter, or continue on his path.

T.M. Logan creates an air of mystery about Ryan. As Ed goes after him, I was never sure if there was something dark and mysterious in his past. I definitely thought that there was something he was hiding, but there could also have been an innocent explanation of why this could be the case. As T.M. Logan begins to reveal Ryan’s true backstory, I wanted to see how Ryan and Ed were going to react. What course of action was Ryan going to take next? This is what leads to a nail-biting finale as I could see that things could go either way for Ed and his family. I raced through the final pages to find out what was going to happen.

T.M. Logan always manages to tell an entertaining story, and he keeps you utterly gripped to his writing. If you’re a lover of psychological thrillers and if you haven’t read any of his books yet, then you don’t know what you’re missing out on. Top stuff!

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Shazbag

Dreadful - don't waste your money on this!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2020

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Dull, predictable, far fetched nonsense. The Holiday was mediocre on my opinion. I have no idea how this could be given 5 star reviews. Very poor

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LAW

So boring and clearly gets paid to mention Audi’s and Peugeot’s at every opportunity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2020

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So so predictable and felt like the author was it’s fulfilling his obligations to the publishers. Also, is he getting paid for constantly promoting Audi and Peugeot’s, he’s as bad as Peter James banging on about Range Rovers and VW’s. Found the characters really one dimensional and cliched. Skim read most of it. First and last one of that author I’m afraid.

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E. S. Marsh

Another smashing read !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2020

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Read all his books at rapid speed and this last one was read in one go ! Absolutely can’t wait for the next one from T M Logan ! So good , literally couldn’t put it down . A must read! Very clever and well worked. Thank you!

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Bumblebee

Harmless

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2021

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A book where the ending is known from the very start so there doesn’t seem much point in reading it . An only daughter has a new boyfriend whom she is intent on marrying extremely soon but the father suspects that boyfriend is superficial, he is too perfect, with a first class University degree, a Military Medal from Afghanistan etc etc and he feels that there is something sinister behind the facade of the perfect gentlemanliness he oozes. There are plenty of domestic rows between father and daughter and mother both of the latter are infatuated with the new boyfriend. The father goes out of his way including losing his job to find out the truth of the background of the new husband of his daughter, tracking his movements and even to employing a private detective to find out his real identity. The finality is ludicrous where you have a middle aged woman armed with a thermos flask attacking the daughter’s husband who is wielding a knife all on top of a hillock in The Peak District with the daughter coming to her rescue. What a load of drivel. I fail to see how the author has managed to sell 220,000 books according to the blurb, if they are all as bad as this one.

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Long-winded and predictable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2021

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I’m afraid that my first acquaintance with the work of T M Logan proved tedious and predictable. What might have been the story’s strength, the presence of only four or five major characters, proved its undoing. Almost throughout, heavy emphasis is placed on Ed, the husband of Claire and the father of Abbie. Increasingly, he becomes tedious as he lacks even the semblance of basic common sense. The point is made emphatically early in the novel, and certainly does not require the sledgehammer treatment that follows for a substantial part of the book. What we have is neither a psychological study of an obsessional disorder, nor a fully-fledged crime novel. In broad terms, if not in detail, the outcome is clear by the middle of the story, if not before. Ed is surrounded by largely stereotypical characters, who do little more than serve the purposes of the rather obvious plot. Perhaps I was unfortunate in selecting this of Logan’s many novels as an introduction.

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