Review - The Last Lie by Alex Lake

The Last Lie by Alex Lake

Publisher: Harper Collins UK

Release date: 3 December 2018

Back cover blurb: The twisty new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of After Anna, Killing Kate and Copycat. Everyone lies…but some lies are deadly. For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her. All she needs is to start a family of her own and things will be even better than good. They’ll be perfect. For Alfie, it couldn’t be more different. His life with Claire is built on a lie. A lot of lies. And she can never find out. Because Alfie has plans for her. Plans which must never come to light. But lies have a way of taking on a life of their own, and when his do, the consequences threaten to destroy everything. For him and Claire.








Claire Daniels has everything she wants. A loving husband, a fantastic career, great friends and family. All she needs to complete her perfect life is a baby.

Alfie Daniels’ life is a world away from his wife Claire’s. True. He has everything that a man could possibly want. A beautiful wife, a lovely home..

Expect that he doesn’t... want it. Any of it.

Alfie hates his life, it is all built on lies. An ex jobbing musician, who fell only for his wife’s wealth, Alfie is desperate to end his marriage in any way that he can, without losing everything.

After all, he’s worked hard to get where he is.

Alfie thinks that he has it all worked out, the perfect plan to fix all of his problems and allow him to start enjoying his life again. As with most things in Alfie’s life, this plan is dependant on a little stretching of the truth.

The problem with lies is, that they complicate everything, and very often take on a life of their own, and signal the beginning of the end.

The Last Lie is a novel that will probably leave you infuriated at and cheering on both of its main protagonists at some point, whilst wanting to pull your hair out and shout at them... a great read.

The Last Lie is available now via Amazon online and all good book shops.

Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

My 2019 Top Picks

I can't quite believe that it's that time of year again...

This year has been such a crazy one for me, that it barely seems 5 minutes ago that I was looking forward to what I was going to read in 2018.

I've read some amazing books this year, and I know that there are some great titles ahead for 2019, so here's my annual pick;

Never be broken - Sarah Hilary / The Hidden - Mary Chamberlain / Looking for Garbo - Jon James Miller / 

The Huntress - Kate Quinn / Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Last - Hanna Jameson / We Must Be Brave - Frances Liardet / The Wych Elm - Tana French / 

The Lost Man - Jane Harper / A version of the truth - BP Walter

Little Darlings - Melanie Golding / To the edge of sorrow - Aharon Appelfeld / The Cassandra -Sharon Shields /
Sleep - C.L. Taylor / Lies, Lies, Lies - Adele Parks

 The Suspect - Fiona Barton / An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen /
After the end - Clare Mackintosh / The night before - Wendy Walker / Surgeon's Hall - E.S. Thomson

The light over London - Julia Kelly / The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides / Blood & Sugar - Laura Shepherd-Robinson / The night Olivia fell - Christina Macdonald / Bitter Orange - Claire Fuller

Summer of 69 - Elin Hilderbrand / Finding Grace - K.L. Slater / Nine perfect strangers - Liane Moriarty /
 The girl next door - Phoebe Morgan / A Cotswold Family life - Clare Mackintosh

As always this is not an exhaustive list, and I’m sure that I’ll be adding lots more as time goes on! Other releases that I'm looking forward to include;

• The Silence [Title TBC] - Luca Veste
• The evidence against you - Gillian McAllister
• No Way Out- Cara Hunter
• Never go there - Rebecca Tinnelly
• The Couple on Cedar Close - Anna-Lou Weatherley
• The Doll Factory - Elizabeth Macneal

Review - Too Close by Natalie Daniels

Too Close by Natalie Daniels

Publisher: Transworld Digital

Release date: 24 November 2018

Back cover blurb: How close is too close? Connie and Ness met in the park while their children played. As they talked, they realised they were neighbours. Perhaps it was only natural that they and their families would become entirely inseparable. But when Ness’s marriage ends in a bitter divorce, she is suddenly at Connie’s house all the time. Connie doesn’t have a moment to herself, no time alone with her husband, not a second to chat to her kids. It’s all too much. Something has to give. Connie has woken up in a psychiatric hospital. They say she committed a terrible crime but she says she can’t remember a thing.

When Connie meets Ness in the park she thinks nothing of it. Even when she discovers that they are neighbours she doesn’t expect that their paths will cross again. She doesn’t even notice Ness’ beauty as others do.

In fact, it isn’t until Ness is entwined into their lives that Connie realises how beautiful and powerful Ness is.

Ness suddenly becomes much more than a neighbour as her marriage irretrievably breaks down. Ness is there at Connie's house, constantly demanding Connie’s attention, until Connie ... remembers nothing.

Connie wakes up in a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she got there. She knows that she has been accused of committing a terrible crime, but she doesn’t know what that is, or how she is supposed to have gotten where she is now.

Piece by piece Connie’s forensic psychologist tries to help her put the pieces of the puzzle back together.

But Connie’s life is now so broken, that we wonder if it can ever truly be put back together.

Too Close is very cleverly written and it’s title could be perceived to be about any one of the many complex relationships explored in this novel.

Too Close is a great read if you are looking for something a little different, and I look forward to more from this author.

Too Close is available now via Amazon online and all good book shops.

Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.