I am looking forward to a quieter week this week and recovering from my interviews, releases, and celebrations of last week! In case you missed it, I released the next three books of the Parks Pat Mysteries, taking my count up to 100 published books!

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I have been reading a few Clare Macintosh books lately. She really is the master of psychological suspense. Such great set-ups, twists, and reversals. I just read Let Me Lie.

It is not what you think! Caroline’s father commits suicide, then her mother does, and she is left grief-stricken, trying to get her life back on track.

And just when that starts to happen, everything goes off the rails again.

No spoilers here, but you will be surprised at some point. At least one of the twists will catch you off-guard.

It hurts to cry for a mother who isn’t coming back. Ella doesn’t need to know that yet.
Clare Macintosh, Let Me Lie

Summary

The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They’re both wrong.

Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents’ deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide.

Now with a baby herself, Anna feels her mother’s absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as she digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her.

Sometimes it’s safer to let things lie….