In Too Deep Paperback – International Edition, 15 December 2016

SAMANTHA HAYES NEVER DISSAPPOINTS! I have never been able to correctly foreshadow her next move, and the amount of information she reveals through each character is well thought put. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS AND ALL HER PREVIOUS BOOKS!

I loved the book as I have other novels by the author. I devoured it in two days. I found it a bit more predictable than her others, but it was good overall. My one complaint was that the ending was a bit too abrupt and left us hanging.

As some others have said, it wasn’t too hard to guess the big twist quite early on in the book. But does that really matter?Going by the promotional blurb for books of this genre, and their Amazon reviews, it seems that the “killer twist” is all that some readers care about. Each to their own of course, but what about the remaining 90% of the book? If you’re engrossed from the very beginning, living the events as the characters live them, and anxiously turning the pages to find out what happens next, how important actually is it that you should never have an inkling of how the story might turn out? I would say that the final chapters should, above all, provide a logical and believable resolution to what’s gone before, and if it comes as a surprise, that’s a bonus rather than an essential requirement.In fact, I’d say one of the strengths of “In Too Deep” is that we have a pretty good idea of what’s going on before the two main characters, Gina and her daughter Hannah, have suspicions of their own. The suspense is in watching them catch up with what we already know, and hoping that they’ll do so before anything really nasty happens. After the scene in the sauna, you want the women to wise up and get the heck out of Dodge, but in reality, wouldn’t most people assume that something like this happening in a luxury hotel could only be an accident?My one criticism is that I got a little impatient the flashbacks to Gina and Hannah’s relationships with Rick and Tom. Some of this was necessary to the plot development, but at times these scenes held up the action in the present for rather too long. That aside, I found “In Too Deep” a thoroughly gripping story from start to finish. The last few lines really did present an unexpected twist, but one that explained perfectly the few remaining loose ends.The writing is very good too. A lot of the current crop of psychological thrillers are no more than adequately written. Quite a few of them share the same grammatical mistakes and clichéd metaphors, making me wonder if they’re actually written by syndicate and attributed to authors in rotation. Clare Mackintosh is one notable exception, and on the strength of this book Samantha Hayes is too. She writes grammatically without being fussy, avoids most of the clichés (no “jackhammering hearts” for example) and uses words skilfully to depict mood, atmosphere and location. That only adds to the reading pleasure.

An interesting book, in spite of inane characters , and the authors' continuous blatheringabout the clothes they wore(who cares) the food they kept pushing around on their plates,and the wine they drank. Seems like they spent their lives opening up wine bottles. The bookcould have been half as long. Just too much drivel . And way too many coincidences. ThePlot was easy to figure out. Gina was a fool.....why would she go to the resort when herhusband was missing, and Hannah was worse. The dog was the best character.in the book.

An enjoyable read. Not likely to happen in real life but then most books are like that. An intriguing tale, a sad story with an unhappy ending. I would have liked to hear what Tom thought at the end. The ending could have been a little better. The tale of an unbearably deceiptful man.