The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

The Madness

 by Dawn Kurtagich



The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich
 was published on 28th August 2025 by Graydon House/Harper 360.
 My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour.




Synopsis



With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, along with her routine and the calm it brings, she returns to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient, hundreds of miles away. With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls, and the powerful, nameless force at its center—one that has been haunting her for years. As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets, and with them, an evil beyond comprehension. Together with a group of smart, savvy women, Mina seizes one last, desperate chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago. But there are dangers to inviting the attentions of what might not be a man, but a monster .







My Thoughts


Gosh what a read ! There is never a moment within this book where you can just breathe out and relax. It plays with your mind on all levels as the narrative gets deeper and deeper,drawing you in to what is happening to Lucy and Mina’s Jane Doe patient. You will spend so much time questioning what is the connection, how are they connected and also is there a link to Mina.

It isn’t an easy read , but it is a compelling read as you will want to find out the causes and the links regardless of where it takes you. You will question every character, their past and their present ,as to the cause and who , or what , has instigated it and who has been affected and when.

To call it a disturbing read is an understatement. It grips you and sucks you in ,holding you to the very last word and then leaving you with a lot to think about.

This is a modern day Dracula retelling at its very best and is not a book to shy away from but let it consume you !!!!



About Dawn




Dawn Kurtagich is the award-winning author of The Dead House, And the Trees Crept In, Teeth in the Mist and Blood on the Wind. The daughter of a British globe-trotter and single mother, she grew up all over the place, but her formative years were spent in Africa—on a mission, in the bush, in the city and in the desert. She lives in Wales, an ancient and mountainous country within the UK, with her husband and two black cats

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