The Ivy

Lara Stone #3

by Tasmina Perry

Benedon College, the elite New England university has a new guest lecturer, investigative journalist Lara Stone.

For Lara it’s an opportunity to get away from it all, to meet some interesting academics and perhaps attend a campus ball or two.

But the college has its secrets. The previous semester, a graduate student was found dead in mysterious circumstances and now a professor suspected of having an affair with the deceased has been attacked and left for dead on the steps of the college chapel.

Soon Lara finds herself in a deadly cat and mouse game with the killer...a killer who seems to know far too much about her.

Genres: Thriller, Crime

408 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 10, 2022

About the author

"Tasmina Perry left a career in law for the more glamorous world of women’s magazine journalism.

She has written on celebrity and style for many national magazines including Marie−Claire‚ Glamour and Heat and was most recently Deputy Editor of InStyle magazine. She has also found time to launch her own travel and fashion magazine Jaunt. All of her four novels have been Sunday Times best-sellers and her books have been published in seventeen countries.

She lives in Surrey with her husband and son." (Source: http://www.tasminaperry.com/the-autho...)

She also writes under the pseudonym J.L. Butler and with her husband John Perry under the pseudonym Mia James.

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting to read

Absolutely, a page turning read. Didn’t want to put it down to sleep. Ready for the next one. Love her books.

[Chloe Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

OH MY GOD. That is all.

[Joanne Bolwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really loved this book and can’t wait for the next Lara Stone instalment. Highly recommend not only this book, but all of this fabulous author’s work.

[Isabel Seno · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slow book, with grammar errors, and cringe moments. It felt like I was reading a book aimed at teenagers. All the characters were hot and beautiful? Seriously? And why would a detective share an ongoing investigation with people she had barely met. Specially knowing they are journalists.
Worst of all: when you fire a gun there will always be gun shot residue on your hands. That’s what forensics first check to determine if it’s a suicide or a murder.

[Dina Starr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh dear…as an avid fan of this author for the last 20 years, I never thought the day would come when I would only be awarding 3 stars to one of her books. But although I did enjoy the third instalment of Lara Stone’s adventures, and liked the way the main characters are developing, I found it somewhat lacking in plot…as in nothing really happens, and what does is utterly predictable. So it remains to be seen whether I will be won back over by the next part of the saga.

[rjjmh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lara Stone is a great lead - and a super satisfying campus mystery. Loved it.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thought it was a bit slow, but still enjoyed it. Nice ending.

[Miss S M Ablard · Rating 5 out of 5]

As good as the other books in the series

[Francesca Beckett]

An interesting enough read, but definitely not as gripping as the previous books in the series. I read it on my kindle and found that on several occasions the names of characters would be wrong (for instance, a confrontation scene had the names of both Sarah and Lara) which made things very confusing…