I love to read and review suspense thrillers that involve police drama and details. Clare Mackintosh has set herself up as a go-to writer for fabulous police drama and thrills. Since she is a past police officer, she has the intimate knowledge of processes and details to enhance a story.
Coming off her best selling second novel, I See You last year, her newest addition to the crime and mystery drama offers a suspenseful read that leaves you hanging until the very end.
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Publisher: Berkley (March 13, 2018)
ISBN-13: 978-0451490537
The police say it was suicide.
Anna says it was murder.
They’re both wrong.
Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents’ deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide.
Now with a baby herself, Anna feels her mother’s absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as she digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her.
Sometimes it’s safer to let things lie….
Review of Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
I love to hunker down with a good police drama and mystery thriller. I have been lucky to read one of this authors works prior to this new release so I was excited to dive into this story.
It’s funny how involved I get into a book when it is written well and the story flows. This book seemed slow to start as the author winds you up and walks you into the subtle nuances of issues, crimes, weirdness that starts in the characters lives. You look back and realize that the author has been dropping these hints all along the way. So that slowness in the beginning was simply setting the stage.
This book had a ton of changes in direction, twists, and minute details that added up into a crime fiction that will set you on edge. Mackintosh keeps you guessing until the every end and then even carries it into a foreshadowing for more to come… maybe.
With fine detail, engrossing writing that ramps up with every page turn, Let Me Lie is an imaginative novel that is not to be missed by those that love a great crime story.
4 stars and a well done from me!
Disclaimer: Chris has personally reviewed the product listed above. She has not received any monetary compensation for her review but did receive a free ebook so she could evaluate and use it for this post. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ.
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One thought on “Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh: Review”
I love this author but this wasn’t my favorite from her! There were the classic twists that I love but by the end I was over it. I can see it being a good movie though.