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Spain then flashes forward to a ‘now’ scene where Erin is in court, on trial for the murder of her husband. Following a family tragedy five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York for a fresh start where she now lives with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. But her digging isn't appreciated and 18 months later Erin finds herself on trial accused of murder. Trigger warning, this one has some serious themes including suicide, murder, domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Hands down one of the most baffling and unsettling domestic noir premises I’ve ever come across, and the first few pages more than lived up to the book blurb. Jo Spain is the author of the bestselling Inspector Tom Reynolds series and several international No.
The premise is good, it’s well written, the plot is clever and it builds with suspense and intensity. After the dramatic start, the plot builds gradually to a gripping level of suspense as Jo Spain weaves between the time leading up to that fateful morning and the time that followed, through unexpected twists and shocking revelations. Having read Jo Spain before, this novel was written in her usual clear, concise, and enthralling style. She made her screenwriting debut with the 2018 RTÉ Dublin crime drama Taken Down, which she co-wrote with Love/Hate's Stuart Carolan. Another timeline follows Erin, after Danny's death, as she hits brick walls trying to find out what was going on in Danny's life that would cause him to be under investigation at his job.
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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. The Grammy and Golden Globe-winning actress plays a recently retired English professor who cannot help but take an active interest in the criminal cases assigned to her police detective son.
The construction of this narrative is perfectly episodic, slowly revealling information, building to a range of plot peaks, rather than slowly building towards a single one.
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I also, could have done without any references to US politics as I never want them in my Fiction unless it’s necessary for the plot-which in this case, it wasn’t. I felt for Erin; she thought life with her husband was going well right until the moment he jumps out of a window in front of her, which would be traumatising to say the least.
I've just read this today and it's not out until May but it's another corker from Jo Spain so I wanted to make a note of that. Overall, The Perfect Lie is an intricate, tortuous, ominous tale by Spain that I absolutely loved and which had just the right amount of twists, turns, and unexpected surprises to keep me entertained, satisfied, and on the edge of my seat from start to finish. But these are minor quibbles because the story gripped me pretty much right from its explosive and shocking opening chapter and kept me guessing to the very end.
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December 2016 – Ally Summers, a proctor at Harvard University is worried about Freshman student, Lauren Gregory.
There are three main questions here: what made a beloved detective kill himself, how can Erin be on trial for killing her husband when Danny’s suicide was witnessed by his partner Ben, and how does Harvard proctor Ally fit in? I did enjoy it, but I also felt by the last quarter it had gone into the realm of very unbelievable, and was trying a bit hard with the constant twists.
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