Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster UK for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Goodreads Synopsis:
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.
After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul’s life—and death—Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can’t get out of her head the one tormenting question: what was she forgetting?
An investigation into the slaying could provide the answer. It’s brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve’s worst fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal—and into more danger than she ever imagined. Because Hitching isn’t the only one watching Neve. So is a determined killer who’s about to make the next terrifying move in a deadly affair…
Review:
I’ve been trying to make an active effort to include thrillers into my current reads and considering the time of year, it’s the perfect time for me to absorb some amazing books and that’s exactly what The Lying Game was.
I was hooked from the synopsis and that feeling never left once I started reading this book. This is my first book by Nicci French and it will not be the last.
This book was full of suspense and had me second guessing every thought that crossed my mind. When I wasn’t reading this book I was thinking about it and talking to family members about it because I simply could not figure out who was the murderer. It is such a gripping psychological story that will have you suspecting every single person involved in Neve’s life.
The only reason I haven’t given this a five-star read is because I did feel that some parts of the book could have been shorter, and others could have been longer. I do feel like the ending was too clean for me and I expected a lot more from it.
This review is a lot shorter that I want it to be but it’s so hard to talk about this book without wanting to spoil everything and just talk about the whole plot. I do recommend this to anyone who loves a cleverly written psychological thriller!
Rating: 4/5 stars
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