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When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation, no website - just a grainy image and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that.Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make?
A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief, and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future.
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything Is Lies by Helen Callaghan. Sophia's parents lead quiet, unremarkable lives. At least that is what she's always believed. Until the day she arrives at her childhood home to find a house ringing with silence. Her mother is hanging from a tree. Her father is lying in a pool of his own blood, near to death. The police are convinced it is an attempted murder-suicide. But Sophia is sure that the woman who brought her up isn't a killer....
The million-copy best-selling author returns with a breathtaking thriller. The disappearance. The suspicion. The fear....
Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.
When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she's decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.
When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation, no website - just a grainy image and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that.Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make?
A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief, and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future.
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything Is Lies by Helen Callaghan. Sophia's parents lead quiet, unremarkable lives. At least that is what she's always believed. Until the day she arrives at her childhood home to find a house ringing with silence. Her mother is hanging from a tree. Her father is lying in a pool of his own blood, near to death. The police are convinced it is an attempted murder-suicide. But Sophia is sure that the woman who brought her up isn't a killer....
The million-copy best-selling author returns with a breathtaking thriller. The disappearance. The suspicion. The fear....
Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.
When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she's decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.
Does Jessica know what the truth is? A stunning psychological debut with a shocking twist. When she arrives at work to discover every trace of the company she was working for has disappeared, Jessica's life spirals into free fall. Her romance with Michael, a celebrated criminologist, is already in trouble. He is sick of the unpredictable behaviour caused by her ADHD and is convinced she is a fantasist. When his flat is burgled and precious belongings that remind him of his dead wife are stolen, he blames her.
A missing girl. A buried secret. From the acclaimed author of I Found You and the Richard & Judy best seller The Girls comes a compulsively twisty psychological thriller that will keep you gripped to the very last moment. She was 15, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day at work as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' available for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives forever....
You have something that someone else wants.At any cost ...Claudia seems to have the perfect life. She's heavily pregnant with a much wanted baby, she has a loving husband, and a beautiful home. And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia when her baby arrives. But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. Or trust. And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom, Claudia's anxiety turns to real fear ...
You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone is determined to make you pay.... Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess' daughter, Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire...but she'll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt.
How can a child vanish without a trace? Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a summer party at her home. No-one at the party noticed her leave. Even her parents aren't sure of the last time they saw her. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows that in nine cases out of 10, it's someone close to the victim. When a pair of bloody tights is discovered, Fawley's worst suspicions are concerned. Someone knows where Daisy is. And her time is running out.
Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen. It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect. A promotion for Emma’s husband, Alex, means they can finally move to a bigger home with their young son. But with a buyer lined up for their old house, Emma can’t leave without destroying every last trace of her final revenge.... Returning to the shallow grave in the garden, she finds it empty. The body is gone.
You want to believe your husband. She wants to destroy him. Gripping psychological drama for fans of Apple Tree Yard, The Good Wife and Notes on a Scandal. Anatomy of a Scandal centres on a high-profile marriage that begins to unravel when the husband is accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is sure her husband, James, is innocent and desperately hopes to protect her precious family from the lies which might ruin them.
When a woman's body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same distinctive tattoo clumsily inscribed on their legs. It's clear the pair are connected, but how? The trail leads Lottie to St Angela's, a former children's home, with a dark connection to her own family history. Suddenly the case just got personal.
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods and the woman who was killed. Since then she's been forgetting everything: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn't have a baby.... What she can't forget is the woman she might have saved, the terrible nagging guilt, the silent calls she's receiving and the feeling that someone's watching her.
Emily's instincts tell her that best friend Joanne's new boyfriend is bad news. Emily fears for Joanne. Fears for Joanne's children. But Joanne won't listen because she's in love. So Emily watches and waits...and then she makes a choice. But Emily has a past, and secrets, too. And is she really as good a friend to Joanne as she claims?
You went to bed at home, just like every other night. You woke up in the back of a taxi, over 250 miles away. You have no idea how you got there and no memory of the last 10 hours. You have no phone, no money, just a suicide note in your coat pocket, in your own writing. You know you weren't planning to kill yourself. Your family and friends think you are lying. Someone knows exactly what happened to you. But they're not telling....
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.
Rarely have I read a book with quite so many twists and turns, particularly ones that I did not see coming. I will say that for the first hour or two of the book I was feeling a bit dubious about the mother's presence as the blurb describes it but it's well done in the end . . . sneaky, sneaky Clare.
The characters, particularly Murray, a retired police detective are given a warmly authentic feel and the key relationships are built with some considerable care. Told from varying points of view the story repeatedly tempts you into drawing conclusions but then frequently knocks them down. It's very clever writing and in my view her best to date.
Gemma Whelan is of course a high quality narrator and she produces a performance that seals the deal for another five star Mackintosh release.
This is a high quality thriller with strong characters, relationships and plot lines. If, like me, you feel a little dubious about the direction it's taking early on stick with it and if you do get invested in the characters be prepared for a couple of seriously heart rending moments.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful
Really looked forward to the release of this book but was genuinely disappointed. Really really slow in the beginning, so much so that I almost gave up three times. Then picked up a little but just not a good read (listen). A very forgettable book. Didn’t like the majority of characters, and found the plot quite dull too. I wouldn’t recommend this book. It’s not awful... it’s just below average...
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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.
14 of 17 people found this review helpful
A masterpiece of clever storytelling, surprising me to the end which came all too quickly as I just couldn't stop listening. It is my favourite so far from Clare Mackintosh - and that is no small feat. I can highly recommend it.
A nice touch is the Q&A with Clare at the end, helping to explain how she approaches her plot and how she feels about her characters.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
Where does Let Me Lie rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Middling - as a book it's a little more run-of-the-mill than others I've read previously.
It is well-narrated but doesn't stand out for me as a 'top' audiobook.
Any additional comments?
I've enjoyed the author's previous work, her debut is one that really stands out in my mind. These 'whodunnits' are something like a modern-day Christie where you take pleasure in knowing that you don't know everything, that the clues might be there, that there are secrets just waiting to be uncovered. And they are usually good ones!
This time around, Mackintosh gives us a rather realistic portrayal of a new mother, one who is in a still-fairly-new relationship and grieving the loss of both parents, both from suicide.
Anna is made to reconsider her parents' deaths after anonymous notes appear, and begins to investigate...
I liked the inclusion of other narrators, Anna takes the majority of the story, but other people make their presence felt and add to the confusion/intrigue.
The subject itself is a rather emotional one - and well-handled. The 'new parent' scenes, as one myself, are raw and heartfelt and clearly written with some knowledge. Anna's grief and her situation - losing two parents in such close succession - is horrific.
If you've read Mackintosh before, you'll come to this with the expectation that not everything is as it seems, that you might be being fooled, and try to work out what's going on. I wasn't as impressed by the 'reveals' in this, I found the denouement a little more pedestrian than I'd hoped for, but the story leading up to it was strong and kept my attention.
I enjoyed this as an Audible audiobook, with a vulnerable sounding Anna voiced well, and very clearly, with the other voices well chosen for their roles as well, not giving anything away with their voices as to their motives or if they were not to be trusted. Definitely a good format for this sort of story.
One to recommend if you've enjoyed the author's other work, though it's not as standout as her debut.
With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy for review purposes.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
fantastic book best so far good twist.
narrator was very good. Hope next one soon
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I loved Clare’s previous books so bought this straight away. It’s not a bad book but it’s not gripping like the others and it’s not one I’ll remember or recommend to others. There are a few annoying holes in the storyline and the ending is ridiculous and completely unbelievable. This annoyed me quite a bit actually. I think the main character is just a little dull and whiney and doesn’t show anything like the range of emotions you’d expect from someone going through her experiences.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed this book narrated brilliantly lots of good characters good storyline loved it good twists and turns highly recommend it
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
thoroughly enjoyed this book, liked main characters .
Narrator very good easy listening, thoroughly recommend.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I've been looking forward to this book for a while since reading one of Clare's other books. Let Me Lie lives up to its predecessors. Fabulous book which kept me guessing until the end. I love Clare's writing style and can't wait to read more of her books. Highly recommend.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful