I love how there is a timeline, 1996 and 2017/18. Different people's angles of events. Gina, Adam, Sharon and Ryan are a favourite idea in a book for me too.

It had me gripped and if I wasn't disturbed by holiday events i wouldn't have been unable to put it down.

The method of the 2 murders of Michelle and Angela is completely different to anything I've read so this one is an eye opener for new ways of murder. You have to read it to discover how.

I really don’t know what to say, other than you must read this book !!!! A dark, twisty psychological thriller that will have you changing your mind many many times.

It all begins with Gina, who despite wanting to be a journalist / reporter, is currently working as a PA at a news channel. Whilst on her way home she discovers a body. She immediately calls 999 but then makes the decision to do a live report from the scene, whilst waiting for the emergency services to arrive. Gina is thrown into the limelight and also draws the attention of the police.

The story continues and as well as hearing from Gina we also have the story told by Ryan, Gina’s brother, and DC Adebayo, who is investigating the murder. We also start to get snippets of the past from Gina’s mother, Sharon, and discover a terrible event that happened in the past. Is this connected to the recent murder ? If so, how ?

This is a very clever psychological thriller with a conclusion I did not see coming. A great twisty, dark story that will keep you guessing right to the end.

Thank you to Orion Publishing Group and NetGalley for a digital copy of this book.

First of all, thanks to NetGalley and Elle Croft for the ARC for my Kindle and being am ambassador for Elle Croft.
As much as I would have liked to enjoy this book,I did finish the book but it was just "too dark" for me.

With multiple narratives that are woven seamlessly, meticulously detailed characters and a plot overflowing with twists - The Other Sister is a triumph of a book!

Once I started I found it impossible to put down. The dual storylines initially run parallel to each other and are equally as fascinating. As past melds with present the tension intensifies and the intrigue heightens, a fog of suspicion enveloping everyone - leaving us struggling to work out who we can trust.

Gina’s fear and fragility pulsates from the page. Her brave and ambitious decision to press the record button in an attempt to further her career has consequences that will set her on a dangerous path - a path that takes her back to the other Sister and to secrets so horrific that someone will kill to protect them.

The Other Sister is deliciously dark, plentiful in secrets long buried and is so intricately drawn that it’s nigh on impossible to predict its conclusion. Highly recommended.

Having read and enjoyed The Guilty Wife, this author's debut book last year, I was quite excited to see how she would fare with this, her follow up book. On the whole, I enjoyed this one just as much, although I did have to suspend a bit of disbelief along the way.
Gina dreams of being a newsreader but she hasn't quite made it. When we first meet her she is working as a PA for Jacqueline, star of Channel Eight, who flat out refuses to give her a break. One night, Gina is walking home from a night out and discovers a body. Throwing most of her common sense out of the window, she decides to broadcast live on the channel's facebook page, her only saving grace being that she preserved the scene and didn't show the victim. This both shocks and delights her bosses at the channel and, in turn, catapults her into the limelight with personal appearances on all the main chat shows. Limelight that turns out to have good and bad sides to it as the trolls start to come out of the woodwork to attack her morals. Obviously all this attention, as well as her being a witness who discovered the body, also piques the interest of the Police who start to pay closer attention to her.
As the story unfolds, told in turn by Gina, her brother Ryan, and Detective Adam Adebayo, we also go back in time to the late nineties, to a story told by Gina and Ryan's mother Sharon. This story tells of something that happened in their past, a tragedy. But just how and why this relates to what is happening now is not obvious initially.
And then Gina finds a second body. Coincidence, or is there more to it than just dumb luck? Is someone deliberately targeting her, have they singled her out as their mouthpiece to the world, after all, she does broadcast the second murder discovery live too, or has her past come back to haunt her?
As with a previous book I read recently, when certain things came to light in this book I was a bit taken aback. But, unlike the previous book which I personally didn't think worked for me, what happened in this one did. Maybe the way it was introduced, built up to, explained; all things that in my opinion happened in the right way here. Made it easier for me to accept what I was reading. I'm not sure exactly why my reaction to these two similar books differs so greatly but I am happy to accept the way things are. I suspect that, like that other book, this book may polarise opinion and may even provide some good discussion.
It's hard to say much about the characters without spoiling things but I will speak generally and just say that, as per all good psychological thrillers, I did a good bit of shouting at them, changing my mind about them and their behaviour, laughing with them, crying with them and generally connected with the majority well enough to enjoy the book as a whole.
Pacing was also very good. Enough was divulged about the past to illustrate the present but not too much to give the game away early. There was also enough mystery from the past to hold onto until eventually the explanation was forthcoming.
And that ending, the reveal, the sheer duplicity explained. Mindblowing! Again, it won't be for everyone but for me, again, it just worked. I'm now left hanging to see what the author can possibly serve up next time.
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.