This book had me guessing at so many suspects, AND there were so many suspects to choose from. The wife did get on my nerves at times. Clara suspected her husband of so many things and she was always seeing things that weren't really there.

The fact that her daughter who was in the car when Nick was killed started having nightmares only added to Clara's suspicions. Everyone she came into contact with practically had a reason to kill her husband in her mind.

While Clara did irritate me, it wasn't enough to stop me from reading the book. There are many plot twists and reasons for goosebumps. An entertaining read that I enjoyed.

Thanks to Harlequin and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

I’d heard great things about Mary Kubica’s work before reading this book, but I’d never had the opportunity to read her work before now. And now that I’m a Kubica veteran, I can confirm all of good things I’ve heard.

This book packs a punch you don’t even see coming.

It’s only four days after Clara gives birth to her second child that she receives word that no one wants to hear: her husband has died in a crash caused by his own reckless driving. Their 4-year-old, also in the car, is uninjured. It seems like an open-and-shut case until Clara begins discovering weird things about Nick’s life just before the crash. She becomes determined to find out if this was an accident or something a lot worse. The story is told from both Clara and Nick’s viewpoints, to show all the secrets Nick kept before his death.

I hesitate to call this a mystery/thriller because it starts out with Clara finding out about her husband’s death and quickly becomes a drama about her struggling to accept it. You could literally feel her anxiety and sadness as you read, especially as she begins to find out the secrets Nick kept from her. Slowly, before you even realize it, the novel becomes a mystery, which deepens as it becomes apparent that Nick was keeping a lot of secrets. Like, a lot. By then, you’re hooked, unable to look away until you discover what the heck is going on.

Like I said, it’s definitely the sign of a great writer when you actually feel anxious and paranoid FOR the character. As you watch Clara unravel, it’s like her instability radiates off the pages. I couldn’t stop reading!

I don’t want to give anything away, so I’m going to be really vague here, but I had some suspicions that the ending would turn out like it did, but it was pretty intense, regardless. There are enough suspects and red herrings to keep you turning pages.

Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed this book. From now on, I’m a big fan of Mary Kubica.

Highly recommended.

This book really sucked me in within the first paragraph. I love thrillers that make you question the plot from the very beginning and this book definitely did that for me. I loved the fact that there were multiple points of view, I feel it really added to the overall feel of the story. Another thing I loved was that the Points of view of the characters went from then chapters to now chapters. I feel that really helped keep a nice air of mystery throughout the book.
I thought the storyline of this book was very unique, which is what a good thriller needs. I also found that I was thinking the book was predictable throughout reading it, but by the end found out it wasn’t predictable at all.
The characters were interesting, at some points I loved them and at some I questioned their motives, sometimes I even flat out disliked them. I feel this definitely is helpful while reading a thriller.
Overall the book was good, I enjoyed the characters, storyline, and twists, but I felt like something was lacking. I’m still not sure what is was, but I left the book feeling a bit unfulfilled.

I did not find this as thrilling or exciting as any of the previous books I have read by this author. It just wasn't as tantalizing. I really wanted to like it. Instead of a thriller I really found that this seemed to be a book about grief and coming to grips with the reality of death. While the characters were well developed and sometimes interesting I just didn't really like them. I could not get my head around the ending. There were also a lot of things I questioned and never found out the answers and somethings seemed unrealistic. The plot was quite cleverly written from the main two characters perspectives and there was a bit of mystery but sadly I just couldn't draw enough from it to keep me that enthralled.

EVERY LAST LIE by Mary Kubica

June 2017; 288 Pages (Mira, Harlequin)

Genre: suspense, mystery, psychological thriller, fiction,

(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY)

Rating: ★★1/2

Before Nick and his daughter, Maisie return home from ballet class they stop off to get Chinese food. Clara waits at home with their infant son, Felix. Instead of returning home, Nick has been killed in a car accident (Maisie survives without a scratch). The police rule it as an accident, with Nick at fault. Clara is devastated. She cannot tell her daughter that Nick is dead and soon starts to suspect maybe his death is more than accident.

This is my second novel by Kubica, and the second time she goes back and forth between before and after an incident. In this case there is before Nick dies and that is told through Nick's point of view. Then there is after he dies, that is Clara's point of view. I liked the first half of the novel, then it started to get a bit weird. I found the ending not satisfying at all. I get the allure of taking the story that way, but it just left me feeling disappointed. Again it was hard to connect with the characters, but at least this time they were fleshed out a bit more. I think I am going to pass on Kubica for now...or maybe try an audio version and see if that can bring the characters come to life.

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Mary Kubica's Every Last Lie explores one woman's tragedy & grief after her husband and daughter are in a car crash that claims his life, but leaves her daughter physically safe. The story alternatives chapters back and forth between Clara Solberg & her husband Nick, leading up to the accident. The story begins right after Nick and Maisie are in a car accident and days after Clare gives birth to her baby boy Felix. Clare is told that Nick is guilty of driving too fast and that he alone is to blame for what happened.

Clare refuses to accept the findings. Especially after Maisie becomes terrified of black cars and the bad man who is supposed to be after her. Do we trust the imagination of a 4 year old, or do we truly believe that something nefarious happened right before the accident? While Clare investigates what really happened to Nick, she also struggles with things she finds along the way. Clare's grief is the underlying factor in not only her decision making, but her refusal to accept the facts as they are provided to her. There are other things on Clare's plate as well, not including the fact that her own mother has dementia, and has a tendency of having hallucinations.

We also get the final moments of Nick's life as he struggles with a host of issues and challenges from becoming a new father again, to keeping his dentistry open and solvent, to fighting a frivolous lawsuit that could change everything. Nick isn't a bad guy by any means. He loves Clare, Maisie, and Felix unconditionally. But, he hurts himself by keeping secrets from Clare. Nick is one of those characters who you just can't help to be curious about because he seems to dig himself deeper and deeper into a quagmire of his own making but it's not because he's doing anything against the law. One could say that a storm of epic proportions could have been prevented in any number of ways had Nick just told Clare what was happening.

Every Last Lie is an engaging novel that grips you from the beginning, until the surprise and perhaps shocking ending. I do have a minor issue with this story, however. I have read where others have had the same issue. The issue is with Nick's and his attempts at making money to pay his bills and keeping his family from suffering. No spoilers. I won't tell you how he does it, but I will say that you have to ask yourself where that money ended up? After all, the story runs out without any resolution as to whether or not Clare eventually finds out what Nick did. Could save a whole lot of heart break.

I've been on a bit of a psychological thriller kick lately. It's the genre I naturally gravitate towards and this book honestly reminded me why I love the genre so much. This is a book that, although I've received an advanced copy, I will be buying a copy for my shelf. This is a book that every one who aspires to write should read.

Mary Kubica pulled me in immediately. Not with the mystery (which is what usually plagues me for hours on end), but with the emotion in this story. The way that I could physically see Clara and Nick, the stress, the pain, the heartbreak. Everything was so vivid; the home, the heat, the stress, the terror. You could physically feel it along with the characters. You could read, and then close your eyes for a moment and see these characters and just want to help them.

One aspect that stood out to me was the insomnia. Nick experiences it in his final months and Clara experiences it after his death. This author shows this to reader so incredibly well. Insomnia for days on end can make you feel like you're losing your mind. Everything becomes fuzzy and enhanced at the same time. You lose track of things because you're trying to catch a minute of rest and it just never comes.

Nick was a character that I thought I would hate. But as you see him throughout the story and his love for Clara was so unending, it felt like my heart was ripping apart. Sometimes, you can love someone too much. So much that you never want them to be unhappy or stressed for even a moment.

Clara is someone you want to run and help. I knew she wasn't real, but in my heart, I kept wanting to find her and help her. The frustration and shame she felt was something I could relate to. You're in a mess, you don't really know the magnitude of the mess, and you're just wading through the muck, trying to deal with it. But you can't because you don't know how to, and you don't even know what exactly is happening.

This book is a masterpiece from beginning to end. I truly can't recommend it enough.

Clara's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when her husband dies in a car crash. Their young daughter, miraculously physically unharmed, seems to remember something from the crash that suggests it wasn't an accident, but a murder.

Kubica always does an excellent job of exploring the complexities of human relationships. Her characters are never one-dimensional, and neither are their connections to each other.

There are lots of twists and turns in this read, which definitely keeps up the suspense. The use of flashbacks ups the ante even more.

This book did seem to move at a slower pace than I would have liked. Kubica's The Good Girl predominately took place in one isolated location, and it still had a much quicker and more engaging pace.

While this is not the best book I've read in this genre, it is still a quick and interesting read. Kubica is a really good author, so even her books that aren't her best work are still good.

Clara has a lot to deal with in life. She has a mother going deeper into the bowels of dementia, a 4-year-old daughter, Maisie, and a newborn son, Felix. She can do it all as long as she has her loving husband, Nick, by her side. Her world explodes when he gets into a car accident with her daughter and while he dies on impact, her daughter remains fairly unscathed. They tell her he was driving too fast and this is what caused his death. But Maisie keeps screaming about the "bad man" and reacts violently whenever she sees a black car. Why? Clara begins questioning what really happened as secrets begin to come out about the husband she thought she knew.

Ahhhh Mary Kubica, you sly genius, you. As usual, her books are told in alternating chapter format. She brings us Clara's present day view as she struggles to find answers and also Nick's view from the past, leading up the accident. Her fleshing out of each character is doing poignantly and you really empathize with both characters. While I felt the book was fairly predictable for the most part, I couldn't stop turning the pages. I needed to know if Clara was right and why Nick was holding secrets. This is a tale of marriage, grief, how your own mind becomes your worst enemy, familial relationships and acceptance. Kubica weaves a tale of a woman's grief spiraling out of control. I give her kudos for ending the book in a different way than the norm. It will be interesting to see how people react. For me, as a lover of thrillers and someone who is always looking to see if the twist is done impact-fully, it's nice to see something done a little bit differently. I truly appreciate the story for what it is. I can't wait to see what she brings us next.

Mary Kubica is one of my auto-buy authors; everything she publishes, I always read and enjoy so I was thrilled when I discovered she had a novel being published this month!

Known for her psychological thrillers, Every Last Lie, follows the life of Clara Solberg after her world is shattered; her husband, Nick, is killed in a car crash with their daughter in the car. Their daughter remarkably unharmed and the crash ruled an accident, Clara cannot help but question what happened. Tormented by grief and obsessed with Nick’s death, Clara is desperate for the truth. Who could have wanted Nick dead? Why were they after him? Who is the “bad man” that their daughter continuously refers to?

The narrative is divided in true Kubica fashion through multiple viewpoints. Clara, as she desperately hunts for answers and Nick, told through his last months before the crash. Unlike her previous novels, I felt like this one really delved into the characters and developed them. I had so many ideas throughout this reading. I continuously was guessing, changing my mind and adding new theories into the mix. Did Nick have an affair? Was he attacked? Did Clara have anything to do with this? Did he fake his own death? Is this a dream? Is Clara in a psych ward? I was constantly frustrated, and entertained, as Kubica weaved the plot

I think my favourite thing about a Kubica novel is the fact that her narratives are never outlandish or far-fetched. The eeriness surrounding the plots is because they are so simple. They are truly something that could happen to anyone.

This is absolutely not a traditional thriller, this is not a rollercoaster ride with red herrings and doom around every corner, and it will not be for every reader, however, if you like a book that is eerily realistic that will keep you guessing, Every Last Lie is a brilliant choice! I gave it 5/5 stars.

I have been a fan of Mary Kubica, but not as big as others. I enjoy her books, but I feel they can be predictable. Her writing is a style that takes a while to build up and is not in your face right away. That can be difficult for me, since this is the style I like the most This one seemed to be even more so than the others, and that was a letdown for me, but halfway through the book, it really picked up and I wanted to know what happened. It seemed like that the story really started to build and you had to find out the ending, no turning back now. I enjoyed the book like I said, and I give it four stars, but I was not impressed by the ending.

As usual in her other books, there is an alternate storyline between narrators, and I actually enjoy this, and think the author does a good job with this style, unlike some others.

Overall, I will recommend it, and I look forward to more from her in the future.

From my blog: Always With a Book:

My thoughts: It's no surprise that I am a huge Mary Kubica fan...she is definitely an author on my must-read list. Her psychological thrillers are top-notch and I love nothing more than settling in with one of her books - I know I am in for a good read!

This one is a little different than her previous books - it's more of a slow-burn, and I loved it! There's no fast-pace action going on here, but make no mistake - there is still that suspense building as the book progresses. The way the story is told, with Clara's part in the present and Nick's part in the past leading up to his death just add to the tightly woven tension and overall suspense. And through these two narrators we meet a whole cast of characters that add suspicion at every turn.

One of the things I love about Mary's books is that all the characters she creates are always so well-developed. They are engaging and interesting and you just want to know all you can about them. You can't help but feel for Clara and all that she is going through. The writing is so tight and clear that I often felt her grief - that's how palpable the writing is. And then there's Nick...I really felt that despite all that he got himself involved in, he really did have good intentions.

This is such a twisted book - but so addicting. Once you start reading it, you will find yourself completely consumed with it...and despite the fact that it's a slower pace than her previous books, it's still really good, with just as many twists and turns. I was all over the place with where I thought it was heading and was completely surprised with where it ended, but in a good way. I loved the ending and I think that Mary Kubica has proven that she is one master-storyteller, able to craft more than one kind of story!

One of my very favorite authors, talented bestselling author, Mary Kubica returns following, the sensational Don’t You Cry, landing on my Top 10 Books of 2016 with yet another 5 star winner: EVERY LAST LIE — a compelling and clever domestic suspense of a young widow trying to make sense of her husband’s untimely death.

A marriage of secrets.

A slow-burning twisty psychological suspense. Heart-pounding, a tale of one woman's desperate search for answers. From an array of emotions —grief, disbelief, anger, fear, and confusion.

What was her husband hiding? Her children are one parent away from being orphaned. A young daughter with nightmares. Was he killed purposefully, intentionally and with malice? Was he the bad man or someone else?

Clara Solberg lives in Chicago suburbs with her husband Nick, a dentist; with children: four-year-old daughter, Maisie, and newborn son, Felix.

A few days after Felix is born, Clara receives the horrific news. Her husband is dead in an automobile accident, yet their daughter is alive, unharmed. He was on his way home from taking his daughter to ballet practice.

Chinese or Mexican? These are the last words Clara would ever exchange with her husband. If she had asked for Mexican, Nick would be home.

A crash on Harvey Road leaves one dead.

An accident implies that something has happened unintentionally and without deliberate cause. Soon Clara begins to suspect foul play was to blame.

She is angry at Nick for leaving her.

Nick is dead. When she is not sad, she is angry. For him being careless. For driving too fast with Maisie in the car. For driving too fast period. For losing control and launching headfirst into a tree.

She hates the tree. The force of the impact wrapped the car around the oak tree on Harvey Road, while Maisie sat in the backseat, on the opposite side, miraculously unharmed.

Reckless driving is to blame. There is no investigation. He was driving too fast. What was going through is mind, minutes before the accident?

Her daughter says there was a bad man in a car, following Maisie and Nick. Who is the bad man that was following Nick and her daughter? Who is the bad man that took her husband? A black car.

Her daughter is afraid. She continues to scream, “the bad man is after us. He’s going to get us.” She fears for her terrorized four-year-old-daughter. She fears for herself and her family.

She replays Maisie’s words over and over in her mind. In no uncertain terms, Maisie has made it clear that Nick’s car accident was no accident at all. The questions continue to run through her mind.

Does Maisie know this bad man? Did the car push Nick from the road? Did her daughter get a glimpse of him before the car went airborne, flying into the tree? Did Nick see the man?

An illusion or a figment of a little girl’s imagination? What if there was another car on the road that fateful afternoon? What didn’t she know about her husband? What secrets was he hiding?

Everyone loved Nick. He had no enemies. Whatever transpired on the street had to be the worst kind of luck, a simple act of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Was someone watching Nick as he crashed?

Why was he going sixty on four-five miles per hour road, that drops to twenty at the bend?

How could Maisie be fine and unharmed? Did he take the turn too quickly? A black car? Would he take his own life with his own daughter in the car?

Carla is in denial. She cannot bring herself to tell her daughter her father is gone and not coming back. He is dead.

She must find answers. Financial problems. Who was Melinda Grey?

Drugs, restraining orders, stealing, affairs, suicide?

This cannot be Nick. There were no secrets in their marriage, or was she wrong? She begins to suspect everyone.

Nick’s secrets. How secrets can destroy marriages. Lives. Families. From an unreliable narrator, feelings of paranoia, grief, confusion. The money. She soon learns there is nothing. She needs closure. She hates this feeling of the unknown and uncertainty.

What really happened on Harvey Road?

Clara is overwhelmed by grief, caring for her children, the needs of her aging parents; she’s also unable to sleep. She is coming unhinged. Is she going through the stages of grief? Can she ever reach acceptance?

Skillfully executed, Kubica takes readers on a chilling psychological journey— a woman grief-stricken obsessed with solving the events surrounding her husband’s mysterious death.

A fan of Mary’s very first book and everyone in between, to her latest: EVERY LAST LIE – a domestic suspense which will leave you guessing to the final conclusion, as we hear from POVs of Clara and Nick.

Motherhood is a strong ongoing theme in this whodunit mystery novel. Both Clara as a mother to Maisie and Felix, as well as Clara’s relationship with her own mother, Louisa. Many of these relationships are strained. An ideal choice for book clubs and further discussions.

As always each of her books is strongly character-driven and psychologically rich. You feel Clara and Nick’s desperation. If only there were no lies. How would the outcome be different?

The feeling of entrapment and coming unhinged is front and center. A twisty suspense of lies and secrets you cannot miss. For fans of B.A. Paris, Ruth Ware, Kimberly Belle, Clare Mackintosh and Fiona Barton My favorites.

Highly recommend all Mary Kubica’s books! Top-rated —she never disappoints her fans and you can always expect to be surprised.

Don’t You Cry
Top Books of 2016

Pretty Baby
Top Books of 2015

The Good Girl
Top Books of 2014

A special thank you to Park Row Books and NetGalley for an early reading copy. Also purchased the audiobook narrated by Carly Robins and Graham Hamilton for an engaging performance.

Some of us are old enough to remember the commercials and advertisements with the slogan, ‘Maybe she’s born with it; Maybe it’s Maybelline.’ The idea behind that old sales pitch is that ‘real’ can be disguised. Truth can be hidden behind some cosmetic applications. In Every Last Lie, Clara Solberg finds out just what cover ups can do when applied to a flesh and blood reality.

Clara’s son Felix is just four days old when her husband dies. Nick had taken their four-year-old daughter Maisie to a dance class and been picking up Chinese for dinner. It was a thoughtful act; he had called home and realized Clara was far too tired to cook. But rather than a dad and daughter with takeout it is a policeman that next walks through the door. Dreadful words fall from his lips: an accident, so sorry for her loss, she needs to come to the hospital. Amazingly, Maisie is unharmed by the crash that took Nick’s life; or at least, that’s what the authorities tell Clara. But within days of the fateful accident, the little girl starts having night terrors. She begins to cry out in her sleep, “It’s the bad man, Daddy. The bad man is after us.” Told by the police that Nick’s death had been caused by his driving too fast, her increasingly agitated daughter makes Clara question what really happened when her husband’s car met a tree head on.

Within days, and while Clara is still pondering what to do regarding Maisie’s nightmares, Nick’s secrets slowly start being exposed. The receipt for an expensive necklace is found in his underwear drawer but Clara had not received any jewelry from him. A close friend explains he had been laid off from Nick’s company due to financial difficulties Clara knew nothing about. Exhausted and overwhelmed by agonizing grief, Clara finds herself sinking down a rabbit hole. Realizing that what she once believed was reality was in fact just a clever façade, she wonders if investigating what happened the day of the accident will bring her answers, or just leave her with more questions. Only one thing is certain; the man she loved, the man she thought she knew so well was, in many ways, a stranger to her.

The story of Nick and Clara is told from both their viewpoints. We follow Nick in his last months of life, as he wrestles with the many things he is trying to keep hidden from Clara and the many reasons why. We follow Clara as she slowly investigates Nick’s death and the days and weeks leading up to it. Kubica is the queen of flawed characters, showing us a husband and wife whose exhaustion and struggles have lead them to some dark places. She reveals a relationship where the love is real but the people involved fear exposing too much of who they are. And ultimately we are forced to ask the questions, do we really want to know everything about our significant other? Does marriage end their right to privacy? Or ours?

Kubica does an excellent job of capturing the postnatal experience from the perspective of the mother. After the first few pages I was ready to take a sympathy nap, remembering well the exhaustion that accompanies being the caretaker of both a newborn and a toddler. The mental fuzziness, the emotional rollercoaster – they all came back to me as I turned the pages. I couldn’t imagine Clara’s torment as grief was added to that and then as that grief was intensified and confounded by the exposed secrets. The author invites us into Clara’s dark place and the invitation is so enticing it is impossible to say no to – but there are times you’ll wish you had.

Perhaps that wish is part of what kept this from being an A-grade read for me. Being inside the mind of someone who is exhausted and beleaguered was at times deeply uncomfortable. This is a woman completely overwhelmed – her mother has dementia, she fears her father is doing too much and dying as a result, she has a cranky infant and a traumatized toddler, financial troubles, a dead husband and a home that is breaking down around her. Just reading about her was incredibly wearying and I couldn’t envision how awful the life of a real Clara would be. Wait, I take that back – I could because I lived it with her page by page. I don’t know if it was because the author did such a good job of making these characters real to me or simply because I could relate to a young, exhausted mother but I became more obsessed by what was going to happen to her – how would she earn a living, take care of the kids, deal with the house – than what the tale was about. The past, the car crash and the marriage to Nick might have been the primary focus of the story but what occupied my mind was the present and future. The bills that needed to be paid and the home that needed to be made for two very vulnerable children. As a result, the book was less thriller for me and more women’s fiction tale about a struggling mom. The mystery is good, don’t get me wrong, but concern about the characters may very well draw your attention from it.

I think Every Last Lie will appeal to readers looking less for suspense and more for a cerebral yet emotional conundrum. The flawed characters, their very bumbling, human solutions to their problems, and their difficult relationships will draw your sympathy, frustration and admiration. You’ll find yourself challenged by trying to figure out just what happened and is continuing to happen. You may not be engrossed but you will be intrigued, which leads me to give the book a recommendation to those readers who enjoy spending time in dark places and tough spots.

Unfortunately, I keep trying to download this to my adobe and every time it downloads with 0 out of 0 pages. Therefore, I cannot read this ARC. I look forward to reading the finished version when it is released to possibly order and recommend to readers. Sorry for the inconvenience.

It wouldn’t be summer if there wasn’t a new psychological thriller from Mary Kubica. Once again, Kubica doesn’t stray far from the style that has made her a must-read for fans who love tales of domestic strife. As with her other books, multiple narration ups the level of suspense, keeping readers turning the pages well into the night.

I've enjoyed every single book of Mary's, and this one is no exception. I think what really did it for me was remembering what it was like right after having a baby...the exhaustion, the foggy brain, the roller coaster emotions. Clara is dealing with all of that when her husband, Nick, is suddenly killed.

A husband she loved, trusted, and believed, only to uncover layer upon layer of lies and deceit. Or are they? Clara's mind is running overtime for answers as to what REALLY happened in her husband's death. And her POV takes the reader on a many-level-emotional search for the truth.

We also have Nick's POV of the events in months leading up to the accident. These characters, as in real life, have parts we admire about them, and parts that make you want to turn against them. Mary keeps the reader guessing right up until the end as to what happened, who was involved, and how Clara will move on with her life. Another good MK read!

Mary Kubica is a fantastic author. You will open Every Last Lie and feel confident that you are in for a treat! I read this one a few days ago and really enjoyed it. I have seen a definite trend in suspense novels where the husband either dies or goes missing and the wife is left to pick up the pieces and in the process of putting her life back together, she learns something shocking about the husband.

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Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident…until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon.

Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick’s death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for the truth. Who would have wanted Nick dead? And, more important, why? Clara will stop at nothing to find out—and the truth is only the beginning of this twisted tale of secrets and deceit.

Clara Solberg is at home with her four-day-old son waiting for her husband and daughter Maisie to come home from her dance class. The last time he called, he wanted to know if she wanted Mexican or Chinese for dinner. When there is a knock at the door, Clara is thrown into shock as an officer tells her that Nick has died in a car crash, Maisie is fine. They tell her he was apparently speeding around a turn and hit a tree. When Maisie starts having nightmares and tells her a bad man was chasing him, Clara begins to suspect there is something else going on. She starts learning things she might not have known about Nick and about others around her and she is determined to find out the truth.

Talk about paranoia setting in! As Clara’s deepened, mine did too! I had no idea what the truth was or not until the very end. Now, that’s good writing! Lots of twists and turns will probably keep you reading deep into the night. Mary Kubica has to be one of the queens of a good mystery. I have never been disappointed in one of her books and this one especially is such a great look at what our minds can do to us. Very fast paced, very good ending and just a good read for the summer or any season!

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and Harlequin in exchange for my honest review.