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Let Me Lie

By: Clare Mackintosh
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Clare Mackintosh
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Listen to the end for an audiobook exclusive: Clare Mackintosh will be answering reader's questions about writing Let Me Lie.

The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong.

One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life - a shocking suicide carefully played out to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with her parents' deaths ever since.

Now with a young baby herself, Anna feels her mother's presence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened. But as she looks for answers, someone is trying to stop her. By digging up the past, she'll set in motion something that can't be stopped and will soon discover that sometimes it's safer to let things lie....

The stunning, twisty new psychological thriller from number one best seller Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go and I See You.

Listen to the end for an audiobook exclusive: Clare Mackintosh will be answering questions about writing Let Me Lie.

©2018 Clare Mackintosh (P)2018 Little, Brown Book Group Action & Adventure Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Detective Exciting

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Critic reviews

"It's phenomenal, super-twisty and, incredibly, even better than I Let You Go and I See You." (Jill Mansell)
"Brilliant. Tense and surprising but heartbreaking and sensitively written.... I expect no less from Clare but she seems to get better with each novel." (Gillian McAllister)
"One word - wow! Compelling, twisty and wickedly good, I loved it!" (Alice Feeney)

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The initial premise, we soon learn, concerns Anna's parents who apparently committed suicide by jumping off a cliff a Beachy Head. Anna believes it was murder. For a while it seems that this is going to be the only subject of the book. Bear with it, because after this initial scene setting in part 1, the book gets going. Just a one mystery is resolved, two more open up. The author cleverly keeps us the audience ahead of the action. We can see dangers ahead that some of the protagonists cannot. Some twists and turns we don't see coming and take us by surprise. In the second half of the book there are plenty of them. The final one sneaking in with the books final sentence.
Before the final twist, the author diligently closes off all the loose ends for us in a very satisfactory way.
This is one book that I might actually read again. There's so much in it.

Suspense, Hitchcock style

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Wow! What a rollercoaster of a read full of twists and turns. I couldn’t stop listening to find out what happens next. Highly recommended.

A rollercoaster of a Read

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Easy to listen to with some unexpected twists and good characters. will be trying another book by this author.

Easy, enjoyable listen

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I was enthralled with this story, and looked forward to my listening to this on my audible app. I would have enjoyed this just as much in book form or Kindle. Don’t want to spoil for anyone just to say would recommend. I shall be looking at this authors other books now.

Such a good story

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Let Me Lie kept me interested throughout, due to excellent writing and structuring skills. However the plot, themes and ending twist was a little perfunctory, shallow and transparent.

There's no doubt that Claire Mackintosh is an amazing writer and storyteller - Her characters were strong, development was on-point and it had the right level of mystery to keep me reading till the end - however I wasn't as gripped with Let Me Lie as I had been with some of her other work, I See You & I Let You Go.

I do feel very touched by the relationship between Murray and Sarah. As someone who was diagnosed with BPD when I was in my teenage years I could see parallels, even with the sequence of events.
Mackintosh did a fantastic job of showing what it looks like from the other side, and also from the inside.

I would give this book a 3.5 stars.

Worthwhile but not as good as Mackintosh’s other works

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