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There is so much going on in this book, that until the end, you're never quite sure what to believe, or who. I was… and still am… much better at sewing on buttons than tap dancing… or any dancing for that matter. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I enjoyed the Author's other book "The girl Before" and was hoping to be blown away by this book as I was by that book.
Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.Whilst the plot is pretty implausible, it's still a very exciting story that I just couldn't stop listening to. And, though she does so thinking she’s the spider, trapping Patrick in the intricacies of her gossamer web, she quickly comes to realize that she may have it backwards. Due to the fact Claire is studying acting and likes to think of her own life as one big show, many of the interactions are set out like a screenplay and I found the constant change in format somewhat jarring, especially when I first started the book. The temperature starts to rise in more ways than one when one of her clients is found murdered in one of the hotel rooms on the same night Claire met up with her hubby. She ends up working off the books, cash only for the law firm, Kerr and Adler, with their ex-cop investigator, Henry, filming married men coming on to her for their wives who have become suspicious of them.
It's the role of her career, one she throws herself into so wholeheartedly she loses track of what is real and what is masquerade, ending up madly in love with her target.Great twists and turns and as the reader, you start to wonder yourself which part is real and which part is acting.
However, this short summary hooked me and made me excited to read this book, mostly because I liked the idea of a decoy temptress. Biography: JP Delaney's first psychological thriller, The Girl Before, was an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide. I sucked it up, donned a cloak of bravery and did the occasional monologue, as uncomfortable as it may have been. How this book made me feel: I read the first book – The Girl Before ( review here) and was really impressed with this author’s writing and imagination, so it was a no-brainer when this book appeared on Net Galley. Tony Strong was born in 1962 in Uganda, though his parents came back to the UK when he was six weeks old.Later that night Stella Fogler was brutally murdered in her hotel suite and the police approached Claire to provoke Patrick into making a confession about this murder and others which they believe that he has committed. As an aside, there’s a book ( Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire) featured in this novel and an obvious intention that our characters mirror those in the book.
This device fits the character of Claire perfectly, as the whole world really is a stage for her, with every throwaway line or ravaged emotion filed away as material for her acting armoury. And the book also provides several scenes as if you were reading from a movie script, another really cool concept.
Sometimes it feels, that the plot is slowing down, but that is just a very creatively incorporated “quiet before the storm” phase.
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