Mona Ellison is hosting the last book club evening in her suburban home with her dearest friends, all neighbors. The last time book club members are together as Mona and her husband are moving to the city. The women are worried about Mona, but everyone hopes the move will be a new beginning.

A page-turning ride of psychological suspense! Have you ever cruised down the highway, and without warning, the lanes are blocked, and everyone is directed to exit with those directing, giving signs it is imperative to comply? Yet, there is no indication anything is amiss up ahead. At that very moment, I felt adept in knowledge of the plot; the author directs the ride with urgency to the exit with a resounding twisted turn, building another layer of intrigue into the story. I loved the intensity streaming through the chapters to the very last line!

Thank you to Susan Furlong for selecting me as the Tag-a-Library-Contest winner on Instagram and inviting me to select one of your stand-alone titles. The novel was beyond all anticipation in an extraordinary way! Thank you! ( )

Thank you to the author which I won on Wild Sage Book Club.

A good psychological book that played with my mind throughout the book. Just when I thought something would happen it would twist and turn into something else.

What's strange is that the last book I read which was general fiction has one circumstance that was the same in this book. Maybe it's a growing trend. i won't give it away but it was interesting. ( )

Wow! What They Don’t Know is certainly out of my normal reading genres. I wanted to venture out to a new author (Susan Furlong) and a rarely visited genre, so I chose this book. Now I know why I don’t read a lot in the psychological thriller category. I get creeped out easily! But wow. In a good way.

I love a story that makes me feel something – whether happy, sad, sympathetic, insightful, or even fearful. And seeing the world through Mona’s eyes made me feel a lot. Porcelain dolls have always given me the heebie-jeebies, so that mixed with a murdered woman, a questionable suspect, and the psychological undertones made me sleep with a nightlight.

This is a nervy, unnerving, twisting, intriguing, page-turning tale that grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let loose. I questioned everything and was kept guessing. I enjoyed the author’s unique writing style and hope to revisit her writing again. (Eek. Did I just say that?)

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WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW begins with the investigation of a murdered young girl that would lead Mona down a haunting path where some dark secrets and lies are lurking, waiting to surface and fracture her picture-perfect life!
I am instantaneously draw in from beginning, and each chapter ends with some surprising twists and turns that keep you in suspense.. The suspense intensifies as pages turning and the ending is phenomenal!!

Susan Furlong has adeptly crafted this spellbinding WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW that is brimmed with surprising twists and suspense! I loved this thriller as much as, if not more, of her Bone Gap Travellers series! I highly recommend it to thrill-seeking fans - you wouldn’t want to miss this perfect summer read!

I sincerely thank Susan Furlong for this fascinating ride that I enjoyed tremendously! ( )

In What They Don't Know, author Susan Furlong weaves a riveting domestic psychological thriller that will captivate the reader's attention from beginning to end.

The reader follows the story of Mona Ellison, a fifty-two year old married woman who had the perfect life: husband Ben, a successful child psychiatrist, and Gus, their eighteen year-old son. But all isn't what it seems in the Ellison household: Gus has run away and is a person of interest in the murder of seventeen year-old homeless girl named Mia Jones. Mona is determined to find Gus and prove his innocence, but there is a darker side that simmers underneath the surface, and Mona spirals dangerously down the black hole of madness, barely holding on but determined to seek the truth at all costs.

What They Don't Know is a slow-building, multi-layered, gripping, and complex story set in Belington, Illinois, that has a great mixture of intrigue, secrets, deceit, manipulation, paranoia, dark pasts, suspenseful twists and turns, and enough tension and drama that will keep the reader thoroughly engaged and riveted until the surprising conclusion.

You can't help but feel for Mona, and worry if she is unstable and spiraling down the black hole towards a mental breakdown as she searches for Gus and the truth. And if you think that's bad, just add in the creepy obsession with her Madame Alexander doll collection, her paranoia with her husband and friends, and this story will keep you turning the pages and wondering what will eventually happen, because it isn't what it seems!

You can't help but feel Mona's angst as you follow her traumatic story. As you turn the pages of this very harrowing and dark story, the intensity of the story grows until the unexpected surprise ending that will simply leave you stunned and at a loss for words.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book from the author / publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review and participation in a virtual book tour event hosted by Partners In Crime Virtual Book Tours.

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