Published by HighBridge Audio Genres: Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Thriller
Format: ARC, Audiobook
WOWZA!
I could not stop listening to this audiobook! Loved both the narration and the gripping and captivating plot!
Two people were found impaled on a gate after midnight on New Year’s Eve. This book looks back at the events leading up to the bodies being found.
Sylvie Monroe has been friends with Tess since school. Sylvie is a highly motivated barrister who is on her way to becoming a judge. She has worked hard and has always had her eye on the target career wise. She is in a relationship with a man named Gareth and is happy that for once she has chosen a good guy.
Tess and her husband are estranged, and Tess would like to reconnect with him. Over drinks Tess informs Sylvie that she has been diagnosed with a devastating (could be terminal) tumor. Tess asks Sylvie if she will tell her estranged husband, Marcus of her diagnosis. Tess also informs Sylvie that she would them both to right old wrongs which occurred when they were teenagers. Guilt has weighed heavy on both for years, but are both looking for closure?
Holy Moly!
This book is told in two timelines in which readers see the characters in the past and the present. Decisions have consequences. Perception is everything. The truth will set you free, or will it? This was such a hard to put down, perfectly paced and gripping book. I listened to the audiobook and loved the narrator.
This book was a pleasure from beginning to end. I thoroughly enjoyed the courtroom sections, seeing Sylvie at work and getting into her mind. I also enjoyed the red herrings, and I had a few moments where I shook my head at Sylvie for choices she made. Just when I thought I had a handle on things, the author turned the tables on me. I love when this happens.
If you enjoy books with unreliable narrators, toxic friendships, courtroom scenes and a good mystery, this book is for you! I enjoyed how things played out and there was never a dull moment in this book. I found this book to be perfectly paced and well thought out. I can’t believe that I have not read a book by Harriet Tyce before, I will be righting that.
I found this to be a well written, brilliant, perfectly paced mystery that I could not get enough of.
Gripping, dark, and engrossing!
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Thank you to HighBridge Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.