Book: They All lied by Louise Phillips

Published on 4 June 2025 at 22:33

Summary :

When Nadine Fitzmaurice, a manager in an insurance company, gets a distressed phone call from her eighteen-year-old daughter, Becca, telling her she's killed someone, Nadine's life is turned upside down.

Now Becca is being held against her will and, determined to save her daughter, Nadine finds herself dragged into the underworld of organised crime - and under the scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Wren Moore. But the more Nadine gets sucked in by those holding Becca, elements of her past, and a 'TRUTH or DARE' game that went terribly wrong years before, come to the surface. Eighteen years earlier, teenager, Evie Nolan went missing.

She never came home. One day Becca was there, and now she is gone too. But can Nadine help her daughter before it's too late?

Verdict:

Following a bit of a reading slump, this book was a delight . From the opening page I was hooked. Very quickly I found myself invested in the characters and the back stories as they are revealed. Chapters are structured around two main characters, with chapters focusing in on each in rotation, which I liked, as the story begins to unravel and details are revealed the numerous side plots develop the story ,but you are still unaware as to where it will end up, so suspense is good.

Personally although the Story is great , I found myself a bit overwhelmed with to many characters which I felt lost the stories core towards the end, but then that can be a pet hate of mine, as a book with too many characters coming at me , tends to get me somewhat lost, so it is not to be taken as a critic of the Book, more so my own taste and the style of writing I enjoy more. I would highly recommend this book, looking forward to more from the Author.

Rating 4****

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