This is my first book by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Chloe Daniels wakes up in hospital with no memory of those around her or what happened to her. After being in a coma and recovering from injuries she sustained from a horrible accident, she is confused and scared. Something is off with her family and nothing appears as it seems. Her father, a psychiatrist with a specialty in hypnosis and memory recovery tries to help Chloe regain her memories, or does he?

Well written and intriguing, I will be looking forward to this author's next book!

A big thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read an early review copy of this book!

Between the Lies by Michelle Adams starts off mysteriously confusing and challenging me to figure out who is lying most of all.
It goes on and on and I found it hard to hold my attention.
Total shocker ending.
3 stars

I really enjoyed this book , I found it a slow burner but quite intriguing . When Chloe Daniels is severely injured after a car crash she has no idea of what happened or indeed who she is . She moves back home with her family who it seems are keeping secrets from her and trying to manipulate her memories . As she slowly recovers and starts to remember things herself she starts investigating what happened on the fateful night . I did guess what had happened but not until it was almost revealed . A great 5 stars from me .

Thank you to Netgalley author and publisher for this complimentary copy of Between The Lies. I really loved it. I didn’t expect it to end the way it it did.

First, I want to thank Michelle Adams, St. Martin Griffin and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

Between the Lies by Michelle Adams is one of the best books in this genre I have read all year. It was fast paced, suspenseful, thrilling, exciting, a lot of twists and turns you won’t see coming, tragic at times, and a book that you won’t want to put down. Between the Lies is a book that truly lives up its title.

Michelle does a phenomenal job taking her readers inside Chloe’s amnesiacs mind post car accident. The detail of how she is feeling and coping is just incredible. You could tell she was really passionate about this character and wanted to bring out the best in this scene. It was an incredible original story with a lot of depth to it.

There is a good lesson in this book that I walked away with. Trust has to be earned not given. Don’t believe everything everyone tells you. Chloe found this out the hard way.

One thing is for sure Michelle is an incredible storyteller with an amazing imagination!!

This book had an amazing cast of characters and thrilling storyline I would love to see this be made into a Netflix Original Movie. I think it would do really well.

I saw this on Netgalley and decided not to request it because it sounds like so many others I've read. But then I got an invite to read it, so I figured why not. It started off good. I was very interested to find out what Chloe's family was hiding and why. It's not a bad book, but there was nothing special about it to make it stand out. Some decent twists and suspense, but it's also slow-moving and repetitious and boring in spots.

3.5 Stars

Chloe Daniels has no idea why she is waking up in a hospital bed surrounded by people she doesn't know. Her mother, father, and sister are there and tell her that she was in a horrible car accident which has made her lose her memory. Once she regains some of her health she is taken back to her parents' house to finish recuperating. While there she is given therapy sessions by her psychiatrist father in order to regain her memory. After awhile she starts to feel like a prisoner. She is not allowed to leave the house, and if she does she wouldn't get very far because she doesn't know the code to the gate at the end of the driveway. She discovers that she was married, however she has no memory of her husband and wonders why he hasn't been to visit her. She is also trying to piece together the details of her car accident. She feels like there are details that are just within her reach, however she just can't remember everything clearly. As more and more of her memory comes back to her she becomes desperate to escape the clutches of her family and uncover the truth of her past.

I enjoyed this book. It took off right in the beginning and didn't really let up. The ending was predictable, however I still enjoyed it. I think Damian's character could have been developed a little more than it was. The meeting in the park towards the end of the story was a little rushed. There were 2 things that happened at the end of the book that I couldn't get past. The first was minor however still stuck with me. When Chloe goes back to her house at the end it is without electricity or heat. Yet she makes a phone call on the landline, and then rips the phone out of the wall to get it to stop ringing. No electricity would mean no landline phone. The other thing that bothered me way more was after the mystery of the car accident had been solved the police then went and checked videos of the street and located what they were looking for. How could they not have checked those videos before? Seems like something that happens in the very beginning of an investigation, not at the end. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

3.5 stars. A very entertaining thriller with some slow-to-reveal twists. Yet, we’ve (mostly) seen this before. See full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2695462619

This is my first book by this Author and I loved it. I was drawn into the story on the first page and read past my bedtime to finish it. How horrible to awake from a coma to be told you were in a serious car accident and to have no memory of who you are, your family or your life. Chloe knows something isn't right and suspects she is being lied to but the extent of the lies are unimaginable. Lots of twists and turns. I will now read her book My Sister. Thanks to NetGalley, St Martin's Press and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.

It is the stuff of nightmares. Just imagine, you awake in hospital in pain, confused and do not even know who you are and you are told these people are your parents and you are going home with them – strangers to you. This is what happened to our protagonist, Chloe Daniels. Following a car accident Chloe has been in a coma and suffered a severe brain bleed leaving her with no memory, a wound on her leg and various other injuries leaving her severely weakened. Fortunately her father is a psychiatrist and through hypnotherapy and medication is helping her to recover. Despite her lack of memory, things do not feel right to Chloe. Her father is somewhat bullish; her mother is obviously scared of him and her sister is somewhat hesitant with her. The house is nothing less than grim, her bedroom unchanged since she lived at home and she is not allowed to leave the house – even the gates are locked. It just does not feel ‘right’ and she alternates between trusting her instincts and doubting herself. Slowly Chloe discovers the secrets that her family are trying to conceal from her.

From the outset there is an overwhelming sense of foreboding especially when related to the father. His character is domineering and threatening and I could only feel distrust of his motives and fear for Chloe. The mother and sister were equally untrustworthy and their ‘gardener’, Ben, was perfectly positioned to be a ‘wrong un’. As for Chloe – of course you must sympathise with her, indeed fear for her but as the plot is revealed sometimes I thought ‘are you serious’.

This is a well-constructed plot, beautifully paced and with a few surprises so I can heartily recommend this psychological thriller.

Thank you to the author, publishers and NetGalley for providing an ARC via my Kindle in return for an honest review.

This book had more twists and turns than a rollercoaster! Imagine waking up in a hospital with no memory of who you are. Then imagine finding out you had a son and a husband and may have been responsible for both their deaths. Chloe wakes up from a coma with no memory and returns to a home and family she has no knowledge of. What lengths will people go to to keep their secrets. Although I admittedly figured out the secrets in this book before the end, it was still a page turner with lots of little twists.

Very interesting read ! I highly recommend!

Thank you netgalley for this opportunity to read this title in exchange for my honest opinion.

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First of all a special thanks to St. Martin's Press for providing me with a free copy of this book. I had never read a book by Michelle Adams before but they thought it was my type of book and they weren't wrong.

Chloe wakes up in the hospital after an accident and has no idea who she is or who those people are calling themselves her family. Even when she leaves the hospital with them to go home she does not remember them. Can you imagine what that would be like? I would hate not to be able to remember if I had a significant other or any kids. And not having a clue who to trust? Horrible. I really didn't like her dad right from the start. There was just something about him and his controlling behavior was infuriating!

This book kept me entertained all the way through, right until the end as I wanted to know more about who Chloe was and how the accident came about. Who was to blame? Would more bad things happen before we found out?

Overall a good psycho thriller than had me reading with suspense and reading with tears in my eyes due to some of the stuff Chloe went through.

Between The Lines was a slow burning thriller that kept me on the edge and wondering until almost the very end. Unfortunately, since I've been reading so many psychological thrillers, I've gotten pretty good at guessing the culprit, and I did guess it correctly in this one too, though not until very late in the book.
Chloe's story was chilling and unbelievably cruel. Losing her memory was one thing, but what was she supposed to do when everyone in her family was hell bent on not telling her the truth about her life? About who she'd been before the accident?
I loved the storyline, and the characters. I appreciated how determined Chloe was to find out the truth, even when she knew it wasn't going to something she'd like.
All in all, Between The Lies was an enjoyable thriller and I had fun reading it.

4.5 stars
Wow! This was a really great psychological suspense thriller. I was so enthralled!
The action begins right away. There's been a car accident. Chloe Daniels wakes up in the hospital badly hurt with many injuries including a brain bleed. She has no memory of the accident or her family. When she goes home, it is to her parents' home to start her physical recuperation as well as her mental healing. Her parents, her father especially, seem to be hiding particular things from her past. As Chloe works to regain her memory, she has to learn who is telling the truth and what the entire truth really is. Sometimes the truth is better left alone.
This is one of those books that has you making predictions as you read. Sometimes you are spot-on, and sometimes not. I really enjoyed this second book by Michelle Adams. I'm off to find her first book that others think is equally wonderful!

Nothing anchored me to Chloe to keep me interested in finding out what really led to her car accident. She's a black slate both to herself and the reader in this book and that didnt work for me. There needed to be something to set her apart from and above the other characters.

Thriller about a woman's loss of memory. All the characters in the book lie to her. Twists were interesting though the plot was a little slow at times.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC

A car accident left Chloe badly injured, and when she awakens from a coma a month later, she can't remember anything about her life or the accident. Despite her family telling her they want to help her remember her life, Chloe can't shake the feeling that she's being lied to... but why?

When I opened this up on my Kindle, I only meant to peak at the first chapter. I was already reading three other books, and the last thing I needed was to start another one. It only took me a couple of minutes to decide to put the other books on hold, and devote my full attention to this book... and here I am, less than 24 hours later, writing this review. If that's not the definition of unputdownable, I don't know what is.

Chloe was a fascinating character. One minute, she was certain she'd recalled a memory, only to find herself doubting it was real in the next. Her uncertainty about her life was a constant throughout the story, and when she made discoveries that contradicted what she'd been told, I felt the same shock and/or confusion that she felt—and some of those discoveries were whoppers!

It didn't take long for me to decide that most of the characters were completely untrustworthy. I didn't believe anything they told Chloe, and kept trying to figure out why they were lying to her. I won't say whether I was right or wrong about all of them... but I did have one in particular pegged as a manipulative liar.It wasn't much of an accomplishment, however, as I was oblivious to the biggest liar of them all. I was stunned, because I thought they were truly trying to help Chloe figure out what happened on the night of the accident.

Simply put, I thought this story was absolutely fantastic. As promised by the blurb, it kept me guessing all the way to the end. And what an ending it was! Even after I knew who did what, and why, Adams whipped out one last twist that was perhaps the most satisfying of them all. Brava!

I highly recommend Between the Lies to all readers who love a twisty psychological thriller. I hope you'll love it as much as I did.

I can't wait to see Adams comes up with next!

I received an advance reading copy of this book courtesy of St. Martin's Griffin via Netgalley.

‘In those first few moments there is nothing. No pain, no fear.’

Chloe Daniels wakes up in a hospital bed. She has no idea who she is. She has no idea how she got there. She has no idea who the strangers are. But the strangers claim to be her family, and they take her home.
Chloe slowly recovers from severe injuries which her family tell he she sustained in a car accident that she cannot remember. Her parents and her sister seem reluctant to tell Chloe much about her life. Her father, a psychiatrist, is trying to help Chloe regain her memory. Slowly, fragments of memory seem to be returning but they don’t accord with what her family have been telling her.

The police want to talk to Chloe as well: there are certain aspects of the accident that don’t make sense. Was another car involved? And if it was, who was driving?

Chloe is determined to recover her past and to find out what happened. She uncovers a cruel lie and, fearful of more lies, sets out to find out who she was. But Chloe cannot do this on her own: who can she trust to help her?

‘The more I learn about my past, the less I know myself, the less I understand what happened.’

If I write more about the plot, I’m likely to spoil the story or, at least, the suspense in the telling of it. While I worked out certain key aspects before the end, this didn’t ruin my enjoyment. We experience events from Chloe’s perspective and at least initially it is difficult to differentiate fact from false memory.
I found this an enjoyable, page turning (albeit unsettling) read. This is Ms Adams’s second novel. I’ll have to search out her first. Recommended reading for those who enjoy psychological thrillers.

Note: My thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. What a nail biter! If you like psychological thrillers this book is for you. 5 stars for sure! I read this book in 2 sittings because I just had to know how it ended! This psychological thriller will sink it's teeth into you!

The story of a young woman involved in an auto accident, resulting in a TBI with residual amnesia is bad enough, then you learn her family is intentionally working to prevent her from remembering her former life. As the story unfolds you will find yourself "solving the mystery", only to turn the page and learn your theory wasn't entirely correct.