Believe Me
The twisty and addictive thriller from bestselling author of The Girl Before
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4.0 • 254 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
'Imaginative, unusual, clever and fun' Sunday Times
'A twisty, exciting read' Sabine Durrant
'A dark, sexy mystery' Metro
Claire Wright isn't who she seems.
A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.
When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting skills to help lure their suspect into a confession. But right from the start, she has doubts about the part she's being asked to play. Is Patrick Fogler really a killer . . . Or the only decent husband she's ever met? And is there more to this set-up than she's being told?
And that's when Claire realises she's playing the deadliest role of her life . . .
Readers are LOVING JP Delaney's Believe Me
'A fantastic read by a fantastic author' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'So many twists and turns' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Kept me guessing right to the end' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Very, very addictive' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'One of the best books I've ever read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney:
'DAZZLING' Lee Child
'ADDICTIVE' Daily Express
'DEVASTATING' Daily Mail
'INGENIOUS' The New York Times
'COMPULSIVE' Glamour Magazine
'ELEGANT' Peter James
'SEXY' Mail on Sunday
'ENTHRALLING' Woman and Home
'ORIGINAL' The Times
'RIVETING' Lisa Gardner
'CREEPY' Heat
'SATISFYING' Reader's Digest
'SUPERIOR' The Bookseller
'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' Sunday Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Some books are meant to be devoured in one sitting. J.P. Delaney’s follow-up to The Girl Before (also highly recommended) is the sort of psychological thriller that immediately lures you into its web. At the story’s heart is Claire Wright, a British drama student employed by a New York law firm to entrap cheating husbands—and a brilliantly unpredictable narrator. Delaney had our head spinning, consistently unsure about whom we could trust: Claire? The suspect? Our own instincts? Reading Believe Me was a lot of fun.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Delaney a pseudonym for British adman Tony Strong follows his debut, 2017's bestselling The Girl Before, with a thriller undercut by a preposterous premise, cardboard characters, and arbitrary major plot reversals. For starters, readers are asked to buy the NYPD's exploiting British actress Claire Wright's lack of a green card to strong-arm her into a lengthy undercover operation designed to trap Patrick Fogler, a Columbia University English professor specializing in Baudelaire, who's suspected of sadistically murdering several women, including his wealthy wife, Stella, according to scenarios inspired by poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. Once Claire and Patrick embark on their dangerous danse macabre all the while with Det. Frank Durban and profiler Kathryn Latham listening in the kinky mind games begin in earnest. Could Claire herself, who briefly met Stella the night she was killed, actually be the investigation's target? For those willing to completely suspend disbelief, the author produces a bobsled run's worth of twists.
Customer Reviews
Believe Meeting
Loved the book. Kept me in suspense from start to finish
I had so many different ideas of the ending
Fantastic read
Can’t wait to get into the next book
Believe me! There’s a labyrinth of twists!
I had read The Girl Before by the same author, so I was really interested in how this story compares. The premise of twists and keeping the reader guessing makes for a real page turner. If you enjoyed the twists and style of The Girl Before, then you will enjoy this ride too. Be warned it has same graphic content and themes but they are handled well. Great read!
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