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“A brilliant, breathless thriller that kept me guessing to the last shocking page.” - Erin Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.

When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted - by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying - but which? And why?

When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.

©2019 by Claire McGowan. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Crime Marriage Exciting

Critic reviews

“Hitting the rare sweet spot between a satisfying read and a real page turner, this brilliantly written book deserves to fly high.” (Cass Green, best-selling author of In a Cottage In a Wood)

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Enjoyed this recording, from the very beginning I was pulled into the lives of these friends. It made me question myself in Ali's position would I have believed my best friend or my Husband?

Great Story

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narrator was fantastic twist and turns right to the end how easily your life could fall apart

loved it

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I purchased this audiobook and got a few chapters in before I also discovered it on Kindle Unlimited. I ended up reading most of it instead of listening because I just found the narration so grating - it brought a completely different inflection to the story than the one I had in my head when reading. I think it's a personal taste matter, but I truly could not get along with the narration at all it just completely took me out of the story. I read it in a couple of days, and certainly enjoyed it. I ended up checking out another couple of Claire McGowan titles on KU and have enjoyed reading them too, so I would recommend as a lazy afternoon read - but if you have Kindle Unlimited just read it there, the narration adds nothing (actually imo subtracts) from the experience and there are better audiobooks to spend your credits on :).

Couldn't get along with the narrator

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I enjoyed the story but the narrator was very off putting. Ali is suppose to be in her early forties but the narrator sounded in her seventies. It was very hard to get into. Not sure who picked her but it’s 1 star for her. Aside from that, I really liked this book.

Good Book

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Really enjoyed this and there were some twists I didn’t see coming. Found Ali rather irritating though and it did take a while to get going. Got better as it went on.
Can’t work out where Mike’s money went though? Maybe I missed that bit?!

Great story but few gaps

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