The Last Time I Saw Her Alive

Praise for Kate Riordan

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I devoured it. Beautiful writing and characterisation and a gripping plot. Such an atmospheric read

Sarah Pearse

Superb storytelling. The ideal read for a holiday!

Prima

A scorching summer read

Lucy Clarke

Completely addictive and wonderfully compelling. A sun-dappled summer escape with a jagged dark heart. You won't be able to put it down

B P Walter

Sultry, atmospheric and unsettling

Erin Kelly

One of my favourite suspense writers

Anna Bailey

A gorgeously written and hugely atmospheric thriller with a dark, compelling mystery at its heart

Lucy Foley

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is an evocative, atmospheric, and deeply satisfying novel. I was thoroughly drawn in by Rain and her world, acutely feeling all the push and pull of her home, the beauty of the wild Cotswolds landscape, and the danger lurking beneath the surface. Stylish and heartfelt, I loved it!

Emylia Hall

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is, simply, sensational; both fiendishly compelling and jaw-droppingly beautiful. Kate Riordan has a unique and wonderful talent for complex characters, almost unbearable suspense and wildly evocative, haunting settings. I was blown away by this novel

Rosie Walsh

Both a twisty thriller teeming with family secrets and a gorgeously written exploration of childhood ghosts, truths that won’t stay hidden and the many shapes haunting can take, The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is Kate Riordan at her finest. With all the haunting beauty of Midsommar and the intoxicating mystery of The God of the Woods, this story will creep under your skin and into your heart, right to the breathtaking conclusion. Wonderful

Emma Stonex

Atmospheric, compelling and thrumming with intrigue, I was captivated from the opening line of The Last Time I Saw Her Alive. With its lyrical prose and evocative country setting it’s a must for readers craving the next Broken Country

Lisa Timoney

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is more than a thriller. It is a world, a beautifully written mystery within a mystery, packed with vivid characters that feel like real people. Glued from first page till last, I read to figure out what happened, how, and to whom, my heart clenched all the while in the hope that Rain could answer the biggest question of all: that of her very identity

S.E. Lynes

The Wicker Man meets the Cotswolds Bohemian set in this deliciously twisty fable of fractured truth and false memory

Sam Steele

Beautifully written and dripping in atmosphere, The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is an evocative and compelling suspense novel. The perfect summer read

Lucy Clarke

A sophisticated blend of psychological thriller and literary whodunnit, Kate Riordan’s The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is utterly addictive. Her characters are vividly observed and complex. Her captivating prose constantly simmers with suspense and will take you on a dazzling journey that manages to be both chilling and life-affirming

Jane Bailey

Utterly beguiling, Kate Riordan's murder mystery has all the elements I love in a novel: a shadowy setting, long-buried secrets and a wonderfully dark thread of suspense that pulls you through the pages to the heart-stopping conclusion. This is the book I shall be recommending all summer long

Hannah Richell

Kate Riordan is an absolute master of the slow burn thriller, and this is her best yet. In The Last Time I Saw Her Alive, tension, buried menace and lurking danger meet with vivid characterisations, settings and a twisty plot that keeps you guessing. It’s impossible to put down

Kate Webb

A fantastic voice and setting which reeled me in from the first page and kept me on a hook 'til the last. Creepy and atmospheric. A great read

Mandy Robotham

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is haunting, atmospheric, and beautifully detailed. A growing unease pervades, taut and menacing, as the idyll slowly folds beneath the weight of its dark secrets

Mary Watson

A gripping and unsettling read that transported me to Tanglewood in the heart of the Cotswolds countryside. Riordan writes beautifully about the allure of fame and abuse by powerful men - this mystery pulls you in from the first page and doesn't let go until the very last line

Nikki Smith