A-freaking-mazing!! Oh my god, JP Delaney is the bees knees!
Ill admit, I thought this book was going to be a total waste of time in the beginning. After my roaring adoration for The Girl Before, I was ready to be let down. But at the 20% mark I fell full throttle. OH MY GOD.

So good. I’ve never wanted to crack a characters head open as deeply as I did with Claire! I wanted to know, more than anything, what was going on in there!

JP did a phenomenal job of leading us down multiple pathways, without it being over done or unbelievable. I’m so sad that y’all have to wait until July to get your hands on it! If Believe Me is up for preorder, do it! So amazing!

I did not find this story believable enough to give it a rating of higher than 3-stars. Added to that I found the writing to be rather choppy. Not a book I could recommend to others.

Claire is a British actress in America, in order to stay in the country she needs a job, and fast. It’s not the sort of job that’s going to win her a Oscar, but Claire can’t be choosy. She’s hired by a law firm to trap straying husbands by enticing them to cheat on their wives, it’s sleazy, but it’s a job. The the wife of a man Claire is trying to catch out, is murdered and her husband is the main suspect. The cops want Claire to seduce a confession out of the man, and while she’s nervous, she believes she can do it. But can she? And have the police even got the right suspect? Edge of you set excitement with a twist you won’t see coming

An excellent example of a psychological thriller novel with tons of twists and turns. Every time I thought I figured it out something would change. Claire is a British actress want-to-be living in NY city trying to make ends meet by working for a law firm while taking acting classes. She is approached by a cop and a psychological profiler who want to use her as bait in an undercover operation. But is that what is really happening, or is Claire suffering from paranoid disorder? What is real and what is an act that she is practicing? Fascinating story that I read in one day!

4.5 stars
A well written, tight, twisty, turny, psychological thriller that kept me turning the pages as fast as I could. Subject matter was dark, so not a book for everyone. Who do you believe? Or do you believe at all? Definitely recommend this one.

I started this book yesterday and I couldn’t put it down. You fall in love with Patrick and the ending was just amazing. Always kept me guessing. Thank you netgalley for letting me read this book!

A highly unusual Book that sucks you in slowly. A bit slow at the beginning but I got drawn in once I got past the first chapter. Mesmerizing.

Last year JP Delaney jumped on the ever so popular female driven thriller bandwagon with The Girl Before, the book I personally found thoroughly underwhelming (although perfectly readable) with the most notable thing about it being a certainty (at the time) that the author was a woman. Apparently not. Gone are the days of women authors taking up gender nonspecific pseudonyms or versions of their own names just to be taken seriously by genre aficionados. This is an example of the reverse of that. Interesting. So anyway, to follow up the inexplicable success of The Girl Before JP Delaney did something genuinely unoriginal, he dusted off a 16 year old book of his originally published under his real name Tony Strong to no fanfare and some very lackluster reviews on GR, revamped it to fit into the new millennia, renamed it, slapped a new cover on it and here it is, getting a second life. Was it worth the effort? Sure, why not…with exactly that level of enthusiasm. It’s much like so many thrillers out there and it’ll appeal to less discriminating fans. Having expectations sufficiently adjusted after The Girl Before I wasn’t particularly disappointed by this one. Believe Me is, authentic to the tile, all about trust. Specifically a relationship between two murder suspects, a love story built on and around paranoia between a Baudelaire obsessed professor and an aspiring actress. The story is told from the perspective of the latter, so you have an essentially unreliable narrator, in fact both leads are all too good at lying. The outcome is two narcissistic over the top melodramatic characters (and to think only one is an actress) you don’t really care about playing games with each other. It has a vibe of an erotic thriller without all the sex, just that sort of flamboyant tackiness. Then again it manages to be very readable and the suspense is maintained throughout, although it does strain the credulity. How far does one go with method acting exactly? Anyway, the Baudelaire angle is nice. The plot offers a few surprises along the way, desperately trying to not be predictable. The book reads quickly. It is sort of fun, all the new/old tricks Delaney has up his sleeve. Thanks Netgalley.