Havoc

Donna says: I’ve read a lot of mysteries and thrillers but I’ve never read one where the antagonists are an 81-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy. Imagine a vicious Miss Marple and that will give you a sense of what this psychological thriller is like. I loved that this was set in a hotel in Egypt around the early days of Covid because you get a sense of this isolated, cooped up group of people who start to turn on each other. At first I wasn’t sure how believable the premise would be: would an older person and a young boy really be equal adversaries? But then I remembered how those early days of Covid felt when we worried about children passing the virus on to their grandparents and I think this book captures some of that existential dread. I read this page-turner in just two days because I couldn’t imagine what was going to happen next and the surprise ending did not disappoint!