The Perfect Lie: The addictive and unmissable heart-pounding thriller

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The premise is good, it’s well written, the plot is clever and it builds with suspense and intensity. I was gripped from the very start and eagerly looking forward to a great read but unfortunately for me I didn’t feel the book got any better and dragged.

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The end seems a bit hurried and I think my expectations are that given the escalation it could have been a bit more powerful. When I'm writing it's like preparing a crossword, putting the clues all out there so that when the reader reads it all comes together perfectly at the end. Unfortunately, the fact that it was overly long and drawn out was its ultimate downfall, because several characters continuing evasiveness sadly gave me too much time to dwell on why, so by the 60% I knew what was coming.After the dramatic start, the plot builds gradually to a gripping level of suspense as Jo Spain weaves between the time leading up to that fateful morning and the time that followed, through unexpected twists and shocking revelations. But one morning, her husband Danny commits suicide by jumping from the balcony of their fourth floor apartment, leaving behind a legacy of questions no one wants to answer.

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S. until more recently, and I am glad that I have sampled her work, and look forward to reading more. It seamlessly switches between the 3 plot parts - The Lie, The Truth and The Whole Truth, and the 3 time periods: Then (July 2019), Now (December 2020) and Harvard (December 2016) and each strand combines to create a thoroughly engrossing and exciting read. The characterisation is very good, Erin is very likeable, she’s brave with plenty of spirit and she is dogged in pursuing the truth despite the possible consequences. An editor at a publishers in New York City, 32-year-old Erin Kennedy resides in the resort town of Newport, Suffolk County and is part of the seemingly tight-knit community on Long Island.

The perfect lie takes off with a very shocking scene when Erin’s husband Danny jumps to his death from their 4th floor apartment in front of her when his police colleagues come knocking on their door one morning.

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She’s so totally in the dark about what’s going on at first, but she’s smart and stronger than she thinks and never gives up trying to find out the truth about her husband.

S. Now living with her detective husband, Danny, she opens the door to his colleagues one morning, and upon seeing them, he walks out of the French doors of their fourth floor apartment and jumps to his death.

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They are now happily living in New York, far from Erin’s parents and the family dynamics that have split them apart. The Perfect Lie is an unnerving, sinister thrill ride that introduces us to Erin Kennedy, a young publisher who, after seeing her husband suddenly commit suicide in front of her very eyes, finds her life turned upside down when she discovers her husband was being internally investigated, he had been seeing a psychiatrist weekly for the length of their marriage, he had bank accounts full of money he couldn’t possibly have made, he was working secretly with the brother of a victim who never received justice, and she ends up on trial for a murder that she may or may not have committed. I guessed some of the twists but not how it all fitted together and did think it had a good ending - it just took a lot of effort to get there. The Grammy and Golden Globe-winning actress plays a recently retired English professor who cannot help but take an active interest in the criminal cases assigned to her police detective son. I said with the other Spain book that she displayed impeccable timing when it came to switching from the past to present and I believe she again managed to do this really well.Originally from Ireland, Erin emigrated to the US 5 years ago following a family tragedy that shattered her into tiny pieces.