The Perfect Lie: The addictive and unmissable heart-pounding thriller

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Analytical thinking skills have helped with character plotting and psychologies. And whilst I have explored Irish history, social and religious issues, it's politics with a small 'p' and people can probably absorb it better in a crime fiction novel."

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Erin Kennedy moves to America from Ireland following a family tragedy. She meets and subsequently marries Danny who is a policeman and that’s all I’m going to say as it’s much better to dive in blindly with this one! The story is told in varying timelines.Thank you to Netgalley and Quercus Books for the free electronic copy of this novel and for giving me the opportunity to provide an honest review. I loved the characters. Erin was quite likeable in her crusade against the police to find the truth. Karla, her lawyer, was such a pleasure to read and her courtroom scenes were some of my favorites. December 2016 – Ally Summers, a proctor at Harvard University is worried about Freshman student, Lauren Gregory. She hasn’t been to class in a few days. Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death.

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Lagged is the best online games platform. Challenge your friends to thousands of different games that you can play on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Compete for high scores and achievements as you try to climb to the top of our global points leaderboard. I HATE plot devices where the mystery hinges upon the characters withholding information. It is lazy and after having read some stellar psy thrillers in the vein of Gone Girl etc., it feels downright cheap. If you don’t mind that, then by all means this book will appeal to you. The Perfect Lie is a contemporary suspense novel about a young Irish woman living on Long Island, New York, who is left devastated by the inexplicable suicide of her police officer husband. I’d read and very much enjoyed Spain’s three previous stand-alones, so had high hopes for this one, but after a strong start, I found it slow-going, with an unsympathetic main character. It has taken me several days to get through, so I missed the publication deadline, and TBH if it wasn’t an ARC I would probably not have kept going. It is always a great feeling to discover a new author, but a writer who is established in their field is even better. I intended to read Spain’s popular standalone release The Confession in 2018, but unfortunately it has been sitting on my shelves begging to be read. Based on my thorough enjoyment of The Perfect Lie, I whipped The Confession straight off my TBR shelf to read immediately after closing The Perfect Lie. This is a solid testament to my appreciation for Jo Spain’s work. I couldn’t get enough of this talented author’s writing.

But Erin has friends, some of them new friends, that come to her aid after Danny's death. With the alternating timelines things are very confusing although I did figure out a lot of what was going on before the halfway mark. Still, I enjoyed seeing how the story played out and I plan to investigate more of Jo Spain's work. The Perfect Lie opens with Danny jumping to his death in what everyone assumes is a suicide. Spain then flashes forward to a ‘now’ scene where Erin is in court, on trial for the murder of her husband. This opening is very effective and leads the reader to come up with all sorts of explanations including whether or not Danny is truly dead after the jump, given that Erin wasn’t allowed to view his body. For me, the Harvard chapters were repetitive and if there had been half as many of them, we would have been treated to a shorter book and a faster pace. It opened the world for me. It's almost like the Freemasons; once you've got one show made, your name is out there. I'm now in the position now where I am battling away work." The American system is very confrontational where they say to you 'we know you are guilty and now we are going to prove it'."

The Perfect Lie: The addictive and unmissable heart-pounding thriller The Perfect Lie: The addictive and unmissable heart-pounding

Award-winning novelist Jo Spain on new crime thriller The Perfect Lie Jenny Lee chats to hugely successful Dublin crime author Jo Spain about her latest thriller, working with Jane Seymour and politics with a small 'p' I was gripped from the very start and eagerly looking forward to a great read but unfortunately for me I didn’t feel the book got any better and dragged. I still enjoyed it but felt let down after such a promising start. If you can imagine a rollercoaster ride through a hall of mirrors, that was my experience reading The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain. I always read this author on a day I have cleared of everything else, because once I start, there's no separating me from her latest.

Jo thinks up her plots on long runs in the woods. Her husband sleeps with one eye open. (I can see why!) Told in three different time lines, I guarantee that you will not be bored for a minute. It was absolutely unputdownable and it has “one sitting reading” written all over it, cause you’ll need to make sense of how both lines tie together. I won’t say much because of spoilers, just pay attention to the details. I did and I guessed some of the twists and oh, Ms. Spain…that was clever! The second POV is also Erin’s as she is recounting the time leading up to Danny’s death. And the third POV introduces two other characters who are seemingly unconnected to the main story. Where is this all going to lead?