Believe Me
The twisty and utterly addictive follow-up to the bestselling The Girl Before
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4.1 • 380 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE MONTH
'Imaginative, unusual, clever and fun' Sunday Times
'A twisty, exciting read' Sabine Durrant
'A dark, sexy mystery' Metro
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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 . . .
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See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest new name in psychological thrillers:
'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. JP Delaney’s follow-up to The Girl Before (also highly recommended) is the sort of psychological thriller that immediately lures you into its web and won’t relinquish until its final, devastating twist. At the heart of Believe Me is Claire Wright: a brilliantly unreliable (or is she?) narrator. She’s a British drama student employed by a New York law firm to entrap cheating husbands, and soon her abilities are called on by the police to draw a confession from their chief suspect in a murder case. Soon, Delaney has your head spinning as you’re unsure who to trust… Claire? The suspect? Your own instincts?
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
Can’t put it down
A rollercoaster of a story. Loved it.
boring
boring
One of the most exciting books I have read.
A rollercoaster of a story. My eyes would be burning but could not stop reading. Fantastic read I thoroughly enjoyed!