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In this tense thriller from the bestselling author of What You Did and The Other Wife, a woman finds a dead body. Will she make the same mistake as last time?

Rachel lives a quiet life in the peaceful countryside, content with her perfect man and her lovely dog. But when she stumbles upon a body in the woods one day, all that shatters. She knows what she has to do: run. Don’t get accused of murder. But when this victim is identified as her boyfriend’s estranged wife, Rachel realises she’s already the prime suspect.

With mounting evidence against her, Rachel’s only hope is to keep her past well hidden. Because before she was Rachel, she was Casey, a young nanny trying to make it as an actress in Los Angeles—and when the family she worked for were brutally murdered, she narrowly escaped the death penalty. Now, she’ll do anything to save the life she’s spent years piecing back together.

But the police are closing in, and Rachel can’t help wondering: Was her discovery in the woods really just an awful coincidence, or is someone framing her for murder? Someone who knows who she is, and wants revenge…

©2021 by Claire McGowan. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Marriage Crime Murder

Critic reviews

“This tense, twisty thriller keeps the reader on tenterhooks right through to its breathless ending.”—Good Housekeeping

“You’ll be guessing until the very end.”—Woman & Home

“An addictive pulse-pounder.”—Heat magazine

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This book was fun and had quite a lot going for it such as twin locations, one of them being the home of a glitzy showbiz family in LA.
It had a good premise to begin with, an interesting character reveal but either I have become genius level at detective work ........ which I really do doubt ........... or the plots were as transparent as shrink wrap.
It really was more like a drama as it was so obvious whodunnit.
The protagonist was rather unlikeable and silly - volunteers at a dog shelter but has no clue about dogs in that she thinks her own rescue dog would hate it if she adopted a companion for her and instead leaves the dog at home alone all day .... has she learned nothing about dog or human psychology despite her many life experiences?
Also does anyone really think the only way they can change their name is by marrying someone?
I went along for the ride as it was well written, just a bit obvious for a thriller and a bit dull for a drama.
Having major travel withdrawal I would have loved more about the luxe LA setting - more about the Lake District romance and less about the seedier, darker more depressing background story and I suppose I was just hoping for more generally.
Narration was good and well cast though some strange mispronunciations along the way.
All in all I did enjoy it, I missed some chapters in the middle but ploughed on as I did not really miss anything, in fact it was so padded out it could have been a short story with no real surprises.
I have enjoyed Claire McGowan's books in the past but this was not her best.

So predictable - sadly more drama than thriller ..

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Too much flipping between characters for me, every chapter back and forth to a different person works sometimes but the storyline went on too long and I found about two thirds of the way through that I just wanted to get to the end.
Narration is good but the Casey character is very whiny and repetitive

Maybe it was just me but it could have been a much snappier read with the twist having more impact rather than dragging it on and on.

A decent storyline

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This story was ok, I stuck it out until the end but very predictable. I found the main character very cliche and annoyingly naive (unbelievably so). Not sure the authors research was up to scratch in terms of how easy it would be to track someone who had changed their name and how weak the forensics were in any of the murders. The child abuse that was never investigated but the teacher asked the nanny if she knew anything and then told her she wouldnt report it! Flaws in the story throughout but a good idea.

predictable

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Excellent story from a great author in this genre. I really enjoyed this book, which I highly recommend. Good narration.

Compelling story

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I thought I’d got it sussed quite early on and am impressed with the intricacies of relationships developed throughout the book to an interesting and not (in my mind) predictable end.

Excellently constructed

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