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A review by marilynw
The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain
4.0
The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain
What a beginning and what a puzzler of a story! The book starts with a rushed, sexy morning for Erin Kennedy and her detective husband, Danny. After a knock on their door, Erin answers it to find Danny's co-workers, while Danny walks to their 4th story window and jumps to his death. We then hop between several timelines as we learn that Erin is being tried for the death of her husband. How can that be when we saw her husband jump?
The story hops between several past timelines and the present, which is at Erin's trial, eighteen months after Danny jumped to his death. Two of the timelines involve two college women who are wrestling with the aftermath of the rape of one of the women. Another timeline follows Erin, after Danny's death, as she hits brick walls trying to find out what was going on in Danny's life that would cause him to be under investigation at his job. The more Erin learns about Danny, the more she realizes she did not know her husband. He was keeping secrets from her, and his colleagues, rather than consoling her because of Danny's death, will have nothing to do with her.
But Erin has friends, some of them new friends, that come to her aid after Danny's death. With the alternating timelines things are very confusing although I did figure out a lot of what was going on before the halfway mark. Still, I enjoyed seeing how the story played out and I plan to investigate more of Jo Spain's work.
Pub: January 4th 2022
Thank you to Quercus Books and NetGalley for this ARC.
What a beginning and what a puzzler of a story! The book starts with a rushed, sexy morning for Erin Kennedy and her detective husband, Danny. After a knock on their door, Erin answers it to find Danny's co-workers, while Danny walks to their 4th story window and jumps to his death. We then hop between several timelines as we learn that Erin is being tried for the death of her husband. How can that be when we saw her husband jump?
The story hops between several past timelines and the present, which is at Erin's trial, eighteen months after Danny jumped to his death. Two of the timelines involve two college women who are wrestling with the aftermath of the rape of one of the women. Another timeline follows Erin, after Danny's death, as she hits brick walls trying to find out what was going on in Danny's life that would cause him to be under investigation at his job. The more Erin learns about Danny, the more she realizes she did not know her husband. He was keeping secrets from her, and his colleagues, rather than consoling her because of Danny's death, will have nothing to do with her.
But Erin has friends, some of them new friends, that come to her aid after Danny's death. With the alternating timelines things are very confusing although I did figure out a lot of what was going on before the halfway mark. Still, I enjoyed seeing how the story played out and I plan to investigate more of Jo Spain's work.
Pub: January 4th 2022
Thank you to Quercus Books and NetGalley for this ARC.