A review by tien
Catch Us The Foxes by Nicola West

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

 I don't often get NetGalley's pre-approval emails and when I do, I don't usually find those books that interesting and so was my first thought about this novel. I'm very much a cover girl so I have to say that cover really didn't interest me and I can't really remember why I decided to take up this offer anyway. In any case, good job, past me, because I would've really missed out! I thoroughly enjoyed Catch Us The Foxes. 

The novel opens with a prologue where protagonist, Marlowe 'Lo' Robertson, is about to speak about a book she wrote. A book about what happened in the past. A book that we all gets to read because this is the main meat of Catch Us The Foxes. It is a book within a book. The Showgirl's Secret is the title of Lo's book where she told the story of her friend's suspicious death and the ordeal she went through as she determinedly tried her best to discover the truth. 

But what is the truth? Does she even truly know her friend? or her town? What secrets are such small sunny beach tourist town like Kiama could keep in their hearts? A town where she has lived her whole life. Lo must uncover layers of lies and decide who she can trust. 

Within the first few minutes, I knew that this was a novel I would really liked. I found Lo easily likeable even if her character sounds a little unstable at times but then again, that is the way Lo portrayed herself in her book so, without too much spoiler, you do have to wonder what her character truly is like. 

The setting, Kiama, being only a couple of hours' drive away, really made me want to just nip down there for a day but... lockdown :( However, if you visit author's insta, you can see some of the views there. I have been previously so it was a tad difficult to imagine such a dark foreboding secret at such a beautiful spot. 

Catch Us The Foxes is a thrilling suspense where tension is taut from the very beginning right to the very last word. It was creepy. It was tense. It was one hell of a ride. I was caught by twist upon twist right up to the end of the epilogue where only the readers, us, know what is 'true'. I'd highly recommend this to all thriller fans. 

My thanks to Simon & Schuster Australia for ecopy of book via NetGalley in exchange of my honest thoughts