Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: From My Cold Dead Hands

Subtitle:

Author: Hilly Barmby

Genre: Women’s Fiction/Psychological Thriller

Part of a series?

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61370738-from-my-cold-dead-hands

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Waking up in an Atlanta hospital following a serious car accident resulting in a head injury, she doesn’t know who she is. You doesn’t remember her name or her family. Slowly memories return, but they don’t appear to be her own. When a body is found and attacks are made on her life, the mystery increases.

What I liked about the book:

It was action-filled, full of intrigue, with a twist towards the end.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

The book was very enjoyable.

My least favourite bits in the book:

There weren’t any.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the only book I’m aware of by this author currently.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a psychological thriller.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book to the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Possibly

Adult Yes

If you like psychological thrillers, this may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Little by little, an amnesiac pieces together the truth about her Southern family, her old life, and a friend’s murder, in this engrossing novel of suspense.

Waking up with amnesia in an Atlanta hospital, Cassie Barber-Davenport goes home to a life she doesn’t recognize. She gradually learns that her associations with neo-Confederates and white supremacists have left her estranged from her husband and alienated from her children. Cassie no longer wants to embrace these views—but breaking away from that world and from her wealthy Southern family is not so simple.

Meanwhile, she still suffers confusion and disorientation—experiencing nightmares about an unknown Englishman; hearing from her friend Marcie that she apparently had been having an affair; being dismissed by the police after she’s awakened by a frightening phone call.

Then a body is found—and a series of revelations brings Cassie’s past into shocking clarity . . .

About the Author:

At the age of seventeen, having been told by her English Literature teacher to sit on her hands in lessons, as she spoke more eloquently with them than actual words, Hilly decided to prove her wrong. It started with a bout of terrible poetry and has finally culminated in the publication of her first novel. She is also a painter and ceramicist, and has a lady-shed in the middle of an organic fruit farm on a mountainside in southern Spain. She lives with her musician partner and two rescue dogs.