📖 Blogathon ~ Before Her Eyes by Jack Jordan

Simon & Schuster
4 December 2025

Thanks to the publisher and Compulsive Readers for my copy
of the book and the invitation to the Blogathon

She can't see the killer

But the killer can see her...

Naomi Hannah has been blind since birth. Struggling with living in a small, claustrophobic town, Naomi contemplates ending her life. But then she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. She senses someone else there at the scene - watching her. Naomi may not be able to see the killer's face, but she is still the only person who can identify him.

As the police begin hunting the person responsible and more victims are discovered, Naomi is forced to answer the question on which her fate hangs: why did the killer let her live?

In a town this small, the murderer must be close, perhaps even before her very eyes...

My Review..

When Naomi Hannah discovers the body of a young woman in an alley she is left terrified by the experience especially as Naomi is blind and can sense that there is someone else in the alley with her. Left distressed and vulnerable Naomi is questioned by the police but is considered, by some, as being unreliable due to her disability.

Before Her Eyes is a fast paced and quite terrifying thriller which really puts the main character through the proverbial mill. Leaving no situation unexplored, the story moves ahead with enormous gusto so that the reader is never really sure where the truth lies. The claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town police force who are reeling under the pressure of investigating this most recent murder along with the shadow of an unresolved murder case, some twenty years before, which casts a long shadow over everything.

This is now the third book I have read by this author, I enjoy the way he controls the narrative and even though sometimes I had to suspend belief there was never a moment when the story didn’t keep my attention focused on finding out exactly who was carrying out some particularly heinous crimes. Before Her Eyes is a gritty and suspenseful thriller which kept me right on the edge of my seat and whilst the ending didn’t come as any great surprise , it was no less shocking.

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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