The Curfew: The utterly gripping Sunday Times bestselling thriller from the author of Netflix hit THE HOLIDAY

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We have plenty of books with the trope of “how far would you go to protect your child” and this one was of no exception. Connor is allowed out to celebrate the ending of his exams. As parents do, they ask him to be home at a particular time. Sixteen-year-old Connor is out with his friends to celebrate the end of term exams. But he must be home at midnight. The five friends, Connor, Emily, Drew and Olivia and his cousin Zac end up going to the nearby woods to hang out. But the end of the night they go their separate ways but only 4 return home.

In THE CURFEW Andy and Laura have their worst nightmare come to life when they allow their 16-year-old son Connor to go out with his friends to celebrate completing his exams and he won't come home by midnight like he promised. That night puts in motion a chain of devastating events that will change their lives andreveal many things about their son and his friends... Since five teenagers went into the woods that night, Andy and Laura aren’t the only ones who want to protect their child. And it seems that other parents are willing to point the finger at a scapegoat instead of telling the truth about what happened that night. But time is running out for Emily, and also for Connor. So this appealed to mystery-loving me. Someone goes missing. It’s not who we initially think. Or even who we next think. And even then there’s a weird silence around the missing person. Teenaged friends with them at the time are strangely silent when it’s obvious they should be doing everything they can to help them be found. Unless of course they have some other ulterior motive. But how on earth do you get a group of teenagers to keep a secret without one of them caving…. ?We are introduced to Andy, Laura, Connor and Harry in this one. I have loved Harry, she is just the perfect little genius and quirky in all her own ways. Andy and Laura are the parents who would do anything for their children. The Curfew follows the events of a hot midsummer's night, when five teenagers go up to the woods to celebrate the end of exams, and only four come out... I knew I wanted to write so journalism seemed an obvious choice, and after five years as a reporter and then education correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post I moved to London to work on the Daily Mail. At the Mail I became the paper’s Science Reporter, covering all kinds of stories from new technology to the environment, space, genetics, health and medicine. I enjoyed being a national newspaper journalist but it didn’t leave much time for anything else – like thriller writing. Real life is more exciting than this book which grinded along much like the cogs in "Dad's" brain as he desperately tried to keep up with things observed by his cleverer but distant shadowy wife who comes across as completely bored and disengaged with him too.

Heart-stoppingly tense. Logan captures the terror of every parent's worst nightmare and then turns the knife with plot twist after twist. A master of his craft' Jo SpainAndy and Laura do seem like good parents. We also meet Andy’s recently widowed brother Rob whose son Zac is close to Connor; along with parents of others present before the disappearance. Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.

I’ve been in that position when my grown kids were out and the curfew was reaching over time in expecting them home. Then another hour passes. You text. You text again and ask them to ring. Will I be looking forward to TM's next offering "9 Years".? Well going by the preview chapter included at the end of the audiobook,it manages to be more exciting in a few sentences than the whole of "The Curfew" The story is told by Connor’s dad Andy, with his wife Laura and younger daughter Harriet. At first, Andy gets a phone call from his brother Rob to say that his son Zac hasn’t returned home, and they go searching for him. But when they realise that Zac stayed in Connors Bed and his son didn’t return home that night. When there is a phone call from the police to say that Connor has been arrested for the disappearance of Emily. Emily is the daughter of an actress, and all sorts of accusations appear on social media of what happened that night. Andy knows that this son is innocent and wants to prove the police wrong.However, at the start of the novel it’s way too wordy and overdetailed which feels like unnecessary padding as it gets in the way of a decent mystery. The pace is a bit inconsistent for a while too. Thankfully, that stops not too far into the book and the suspense builds and it becomes gripping with good plot twists and a growing suspect pool and you find yourself fully immersed in the storytelling. There are some relevant issues explored such as toxic friendships and bullying. The are a number of scenes where the author creates an excellent atmosphere especially set around the local woods.