The Woman Who Lied
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4.3 • 120 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9
Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two children - a teenager from her first marriage, a little boy from her second. She also happens to be the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels.
But when Emilia embarks on her tenth novel, life takes a disturbing turn: an incident straight out of the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, she thinks.
Until it happens again - and again.
Then someone she knows dies in the same way as a victim in the book she's currently writing . . .
Why is someone doing this?
How do they know what she is writing?
And what if Emilia and her family are next?
PRAISE FOR CLAIRE DOUGLAS:
'Clever. Gripping. Terrifically compelling. Kept me glued to the page' SARAH PEARSE
'Eerie, spine-tingling. Douglas is a master storyteller. The perfect immersive read' JANICE HALLETT
'Douglas is the queen of the unexpected twist, and this is her best wrongfooting yet' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
© Claire Douglas 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There are layers upon layers of murder-mystery in this atmospheric thriller. Protagonist Emilia is a best-selling crime author who boldly decides to kill off her popular detective heroine in her latest novel. But as she’s in the midst of writing it, sinister incidents start occurring. What’s more, they seem to be ripped straight from her own books. When her friend is killed exactly like a victim in her manuscript, she realises the murderer must be someone she knows. Could Emilia herself be next? Are her family safe? And just how close to home is the deadly threat? As Emilia begins to mistrust those closest to her, we gradually learn that she’s been living a lie—and it’s one that could kill her. Interweaving true-crime vengeance with a serial killer plot and simmering psychological menace, this cleverly constructed book inside a book crackles with tension. The story strands converge in ways you won’t see coming. A haunting, head-spinning twist on domestic noir.
Customer Reviews
*A Matter of Trust*
This book is full of suspense and one that will see the protagonist question who she can trust, let alone her judgment. There are also quite a few characters to keep up with.
Emilia is a crime writer. She has a lovely home with her second husband and two children. She has a few close friends and she was struggling with writer’s block until one of her friend’s gives her an idea for her latest novel. The pace is quite steady until random things start to happen. Some from her previous books and weirdly one or two things from her latest book.
The strangest thing is that only her editor and a few choice friends have been privy to the draft copy of her book. You start to feel her desperation as she starts to receive things that are in her upcoming and unpublished book. She is going out of her mind trying to make sense of things. She reports things to the bored sounding police officer on the phone and when things start to get serious she is at her wits end.
Her behaviour comes across as paranoid as she starts to question everything. When someone very close to her is murdered in the same style as a character in her book, she does not know who to trust and the origins of part of her story sends her into a complete meltdown. We see her accusing all those close to her of being involved as the time comes for her to admit how she came about writing a book that is very close to a real crime. Is it a coincidence or is she trusting the wrong people?
Meanwhile the murderer of her close friend is parading around in plain sight? Will Emilia put the pieces together?……
Twisting
This book literally had me confused and on edge the whole time!!!! Would absolutely recommend 100%
Hooked
Absolutely brilliant had to listen to it all before bed