Hank Phillippi Ryan’s All This Could Be Yours

 Coming out September 9, Hank Phillippi Ryan’s All This Could Be Yours is a taut, emotionally charged thriller that explores the dark undercurrents of fame, family, and the secrets from the past that keep trespassing on current lives. Blending psychological suspense with the precision of  journalistic writing, Ryan delivers an engrossing story that is both timely and chilling.

While readers might thrill at the opportunity to attend an author event at their local bookstore, it is a different story for the writer. Tessa Calloway keeps telling herself she is living the dream but the pressure of flight after flight, a different city every night, as she fulfils her contract to conduct author visits is taking its toll on her as well as on her husband and two children back home.

Not only the pace of the tour and being away from home plague Tessa but also something creepy is going on. Starting with a locket left behind in Tessa’s hotel room, a series of events is leaving her unsettled: startling messages left at her hotels, insistent questions about her private life from audience members, and people taking and leaving things in her hotel room while she is out. Tessa thinks it could all add up to something bad that happened when she was 10 years old, but it could be another thing that occurred when she was a teenager: events that caused her mother to flee with her and change their names.

Author Ryan seems to be digging into her own book tour experience as she captures the chaotic pace of the travel and the actual author events themselves. Tessa’s internal turmoil is magnified by the fact she cannot halt the pace in order to stop what sinister event seems about to occur. A thin line between having it all and what the costs may be to keep it all drives this page turner to the finish with one final twist.

Born in Indianapolis, Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, a local television station in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the author of mystery thrillers. Several of her books have been optioned for film and television.

My review will be posted on Goodreads starting July 15, 2025.

I would like to thank St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.