Hope Close

Ah the neighbors - there always seems to be stories about getting along with the neighbors, or knowing the neighbor’s secrets or finding out your neighbor is a serial killer. These type of stories seem to be all the rage lately. Hope Close is a mediocre telling of such a story. It’s not that I hated......more

Hope Close was another addictively clever domestic drama from Tina Seskis, featuring an engaging group dynamic of characters all living on the same close, all hiding secrets behind closed doors, whose steady lives are disrupted by a new arrival. This author is truly excellent at bringing people to li......more

Hope Close is Tina Seskis’s fifth domestic-based psychological thriller and is every bit as addictive and captivating as her previous books. From initial perusal, the synopsis reads like a trillion other similar novels but in its defence, the author does a great job of depicting the small-town commu......more

I just could not get through this book. I’ve read & enjoyed another book by this author so I kept going back.. I figured I should at least find out where it was headed. Unfortunately it never quite got there. The reveals at the end were flimsy & predictable, & the “domestic drama” just wasn’t enough......more

If you’ve not read Tina Seskis but enjoy Lisa Jewell, you’d do well to start with Hope Close. Like many of Jewell’s stories, here the neighbourhood is so critical to the plot as to figure as one of the principal characters. It is a cul de sac consisting of four houses in that part of Surrey I’ll alw......more