Believe Me

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Pub Date 26 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 24 Jul 2018

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THE SENSATIONAL NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL BEFORE

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH

'Imaginative, unusual, clever and fun' - Sunday Times

'A twisty, exciting read' - Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me

'A dark, sexy mystery' - Metro

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Claire Wright likes to play other people.

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


THE SENSATIONAL NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL BEFORE

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH

'Imaginative, unusual, clever and...


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ISBN 9781787472402
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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Featured Reviews

An intriguing cat-and-mouse thriller as penniless actress Claire is recruited to not merely honey-trap, but to become the soulmate of a sexual serial killer.

I found this far more original than the author's [book:The Girl Before|31300946], with a fast pace and interesting characterisation. It helps, too, that we have a single narrator and merely a few flashbacks but other than that a linear narrative.

Claire is an actress to her bones with a shifting and unstable sense of identity making this undercover assignment both possible and also uniquely risky for her. In Patrick, too, we have an interesting character: Columbia academic and Baudelaire expert by day, sexual killer by night. A man who is genuinely intelligent, literate, and charming -as well as ruthless, devious and twisted is a hard one to pull off but Delaney manages it.

So suspend your disbelief over Claire's recruitment and look out your copy of [book:Les Fleurs du Mal|1060828] ([book:The Flowers of Evil|3213640]) - a swift and engrossing page-turner.

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Read this in one sitting this afternoon, very addictive, theatrics both of character and plot and one of those novels you just bang through, thoroughly engaged with the story and the potential outcome.

It wasn't perfect - the "staging" quotes did get a little irritating but that might be because I was reading the e-book version, it would probably work better in print - having said that I don't think they were required anyway. The main protagonist voice, Claire, an actress on many levels, set the scene perfectly, although I got the point (how she saw things in her head) the descriptive quality brought that without it having to be physically in there.

That aside though, the premise is intriguing - Claire set's honey traps for cheating husbands but can she set one for a killer? The author plays with perception cleverly, serving up several game changers that keeps you off kilter and unsure who is preying on who. The ending lived up to the promise and overall I enjoyed it very much.

An engaging and beautifully flowing story where you may work out what is going on but you'll never be quite sure until it's revealed.

To be reviewed properly near publication on Liz Loves Books.

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