Let Me Lie by Clare MacKintosh – a Review

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Description:
The police say it was suicide.
Anna says it was murder.
They’re both wrong.

One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since.

Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to question her parents’ deaths. But by digging up their past, she’ll put her future in danger. Sometimes it’s safer to let things lie…

Review:

Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh is a standalone thriller, which the author has become known for after her successful debut with I Let You Go.

Let Me Lie revolves around Anna Johnson, who lives with her partner, Mark and their baby, Ella.  Anna is still grieving over the death by suicide of her mother, which was a year ago. Her father also killed himself around 7 months prior to her mother’s death.  Anna just can’t get past the fact that both of her parents died the same way.  On the day of the anniversary of her mother’s death, she receives an anonymous note questioning that their deaths were suicide, which convinces Anna that both of them were murdered.

She goes to the police with the note, and a retired cop, who works at the police desk takes the note and says he will look into it.  Besides Anna, we also get the Pov of the cop, Murray, who upon researching the case, begins to believe she is right, that her parents were murdered.  Murray was a good cop, and we also get to see him with his wife, who fights off mental illness.  On her good days, she helps discuss the case with him, and this was a nice element to the story and investigation.

As Anna is determined to find the truth, she will receive a shock that will change the game.   To say too much more would be spoilers, and throughout the book, there are so many twists and surprises that will further change everything.  There are a number of other characters who are part of Anna’s life; Mark, her partner, who wants to marry her; Laura, who is a friend to the family; Billy, her uncle from her father’s side.   Who can Anna trust?  

What follows is an exciting and intense story that bordered a bit on the wild side with all those twists and turns. Anna, the main character all the way through, was in the middle of every revelation, that by the end, her own life was very much in danger.  At the same time, the story took a bit of an unrealistic feel, though it was very much a thriller. 

Let Me Lie was a dark thriller, lots of excitement, action  and game changers that made you constantly guess wrong, especially since for the most part, the other characters could not really be trusted.  If you love psychological thrillers, you can never go wrong reading Clare Mackintosh, though I will say I loved the first two books better.     

Reviewed by Barb

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