8 January 2026
I'm a fan of the incredibly clever, twisty, tense family thrillers written by Gillian McAllister, and I really enjoyed her latest novel, 'Famous Last Words'. Like many of her books, this plot throws an unsuspecting person suddenly into a violent, scary world of crime. Camilla is about to restart work after maternity leave, dropping her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time, only to discover as she reaches the office that her husband is the perpetrator of an armed siege and is holding three people hostage at gunpoint - which is not something she had seen coming. The piecing together of this unbelievable and shocking situation and how it came about takes the reader on Gillian McAllister's usual journey from unfathomable implausibility to ingenious resolution. It's another pacy, scary, gripping contemporary thriller, which grabbed my attention and made me charge through the novel.
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