The Christmas Holiday by Mikayla Davids #Review

 

Today we have a psychological thriller, just right for the festive season: The Christmas Holiday by Mikayla Davids.

 
The perfect vacation or the perfect murder...

It's Christmastime and thirty-two-year-old Alicia Silver is spending her first Christmas holiday with her handsome new husband Jack and his family in their remote lodge in the Irish mountains.

The Silver family are wealthy and beautiful, they seem to live a charmed existence and Alicia only hopes she can live up to their high expectations for her marriage.

The festivities are in full swing but Alicia quickly discovers that, behind their perfect image, the Silver family are hiding plenty of secrets...

The gorgeous husband

The jealous sister-in-law

The glamorous step-mother

The wealthy father-in-law

Before the vacation is over one of them will be dead.

But who would kill to protect their secret? And who will survive this Christmas holiday?

My Thoughts

 This psychological thriller sets up the tension beautifully from the beginning. You know that something horrific has occurred but you don't know who the victim is or who the person under suspicion is either. The setting is remote. Lonely but beautiful, it should be the perfect setting for a Christmas break. Of course, you soon realise that the phrase, hell is other people, fits this family beautifully. 

    Alicia is a newcomer to the family and you see everyone at first through her eyes although other perspectives are soon part of the narrative. You have the uneasy feeling about different motivations and soon realise that there are some family secrets below the surface, too.  I did find this to be something of a page turner, with a surprising twist at the end and a multitude of red herrings. 

In short: a great Christmas thriller.

About the Author

I'll let you into a little secret... Mikayla Davids isn't my real name, it's just the pen name I write under. I could be the person sitting opposite you on the train, furiously tapping away at a laptop, or the woman scribbling in a notebook on the table beside you in Starbucks. Everyone has their secrets. And this is mine.

But I will tell you I've lived and breathed fictional worlds all my life. I've been the child who spent hours in the library, the teenager who stayed up turning pages way into the night, the editor who poured every working hour into helping authors achieve their dreams of being published. Now I'm the secret writer.

I write psychological thrillers about family dramas, complicated relationships and ordinary moments that can suddenly turn into nightmares.

You can follow Mikayla here: Facebook  |  Instagram   |  Twitter                                                     |  Website

Book links: Goodreads  |  Buy links 

Thanks to Mikayla Davids and Zooloo's Book Tours  for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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