📖 Blogathon Book Review ~ Anything For Her by Jack Jordan

Simon & Schuster
5 June 2025

My thanks to the publisher and Tracy at Compulisve Readers
For the copy of this book to review and the invitation to the Blogathon

 Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you.

Louise Leighton's life has fallen apart, all because of one fateful night. Her husband is an adulterer, her sister is his mistress, and soon, Louise will lose everything she owns. But she never imagined she would lose her daughter.

Eighteen-year-old Brooke Leighton is missing. It's up to Louise and the Metropolitan Police to find her. Has Brooke run away? Or has she been taken against her will? And can Louise aid the investigation without mentioning the night where all of her troubles began?

If she mentions that night, she will incriminate her daughter for heinous crimes. But if she doesn't, she may never find Brooke; and if she has been abducted, the person who took her may come for Louise, too.

Sometimes the past comes back to kill you.

📖My Review..

Louise Leighton should have had the perfect life with a stylish home, a successful husband and two lovely children however, as we discover in this fast action thriller all is really not well in her world and with events spiralling out of control Louise knows that time is running out and her secrets, and those of her fractured family, are about to be discovered.

Beautifully paced, and with never a dull moment, the narrative is crisp and clean, conjuring a series of events that I really didn’t see coming. There’s a creepiness to the story which I found quite unsettling and when reading into the night I found myself jumping at shadows. I couldn’t begin to imagine the horrors Louise was facing but the author does an excellent job of getting under the skin of his characters and brings them so forcibly to life that, despite their many, many faults, I couldn’t help but have a modicum of sympathy for them. However, even my reader’s empathy, towards character flaws, was sorely tested by what was so cleverly revealed at the end of this complicated thriller.

Anything For Her is an unputdownable thriller and a complex lesson in just how far parents, and mothers in particular, will go to protect their children. Previously published in 2015, as the author’s debut novel, Anything For Her is now republished with a striking new cover. 

About the Author

Jack Jordan is the global bestselling author of Anything for Her, My Girl, A Woman Scorned, Before Her Eyes, Night by Night, Do No Harm and Conviction, and an Amazon No. 1 bestseller in the UK, Canada and Australia.

Do No Harm was described as ‘chilling’ by Sarah Pearse, ‘brilliant’ by Lesley Kara and ‘pulse-racing’ by Louise Candlish. It was an instant Times bestseller on first publication and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month pick.

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