A Taste of Deceit
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“Gripping . . . had me hooked from the very first page. I couldn’t put it down and read it in a weekend . . . keeps the reader on their toes.” —Amazon reviewer, five stars
A darkly suspenseful story of troubled marriages, small-town secrets, and shocking twists by the author of The Couple in the Photograph.
After a row with her husband, Jocelyn Dexter leaves London and heads to their country cottage for a break. While she’s there, Jocelyn joins a group of women one night at the manor house nearby—and gets entangled in other people’s relationships.
Picking up on the tension beneath the surface, Jocelyn entertains herself by indulging in some snooping, and tries to pry secrets out of the locals. The tables turn when she discovers that someone is spying on her, and it becomes clear that someone wants her to go back where she came from.
Jocelyn considers it a challenge. But involving herself in the affairs of others will lead her down a dark path . . .
Customer Reviews
Sour Taste of Deceit
It takes almost no time for the reader to twig that the narrator is a manipulative psychopath, presenting as an adulterous wife whose husband has discovered her betrayal. She has fled to the couple’s country cottage in the Cotswolds and much of what follows describes (at length and ponderously) her tactics as she creates a fake persona and inserts herself into the lives of her village neighbours, proceeding to winkle out their secrets and interfere in their lives. The author pads out these scenes with a tiresome plethora of adjectives. I began to speed-read, skipping passages, impatient to find out where this was going. Only to find that the entire process was a giant ‘red herring’… a slow-moving plot device masking a greater crime. The twist and big reveal are dealt with speedily and this felt very unsatisfying. From my POV the book as a whole was unbalanced, with characters who did not feel drawn from real life.