ONE MORE LIE BY AMY LLOYD
A thrilling new novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Innocent Wife.
BLURB
How do you
live with yourself as an adult when you were
convicted of murder as a child?
convicted of murder as a child?
And when you can't remember the crime...
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE GUILTY?
Charlotte wants a fresh start. She wants to forget her past, forget her crime – and, most of all, forget that one terrible moment.
It’s the reason she’s been given a new name, a new life. The reason she spent years in prison.
But even on the outside, with an ankle monitor and court-mandated therapy, she can’t escape the devastating memory of the night that turned her and her only friend into national hate figures.
But now her friend has found her.
And despite the lies she tells to survive, she soon finds herself being dragged deeper and deeper into a past she cannot confront.
Even if it’s
going to cost Charlotte her life...
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I was really excited to read One More Lie by Amy Lloyd. I’ve
heard really great things about her previous book so when I was offered to read
an early copy I was all over it! I love my thriller/psychological books so much
and have really been irked lately with the output from writers… all of the
books say it’s a “shocking” or “fast-paced griping thrillers.” Reviewers or
author’s reviewing the work call it “addictive” “compulsive” “twisted” or “un-put-downable”
and then I end up bored though half the book. Yes, that last ¼ of the book may
be remarkable but would about that other ¾?
So anyway, One More Lie by Amy Lloyd does not go in stating
any of those adjectives… but it was just that! It’s was thrilling and so
fast-paced. I didn’t know who to trust, past and present? I really enjoyed the
way Miss Lloyd wrote the story… jumping between him and her and slow dropping
bombs as they went. It started out as a compulsive read and steadily stayed
that way, which I appreciate. Generally, there are parts in a thriller where
the backstory has to be told and it’s not as riveting as everything coming
together but this story didn’t lack in the thrilling aspect.
Miss Lloyd’s writing is really gripping. The book starts
with that feeling of slow underlying tension. She slowly builds the tension up.
I enjoyed the feel of the confusion and wonder as the storyline progressed.
Miss Lloyd tosses in these occasional tense and strong moments. This is one of
those books that you want to read from start to finish and I pretty much did. I
had my Kindle app read to me while I worked and then I had to finish it up
later that evening. It’s a book that you’ll feverishly read wanting to get to
that ending.
The cover itself fully encompassed what I felt about this
book… a blur of iffy beliefs with stressful sweating. It’s a great cover that
easy wraps up the story in a very creative way. Covers are one of the first
things that pull me in and this one definitely intrigued me. I will say that I’ve
seen several different versions of this cover but the one I have on my ebook is
my favorite with the blurred silhouette and the water running down the front.
I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an
Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise,
and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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| Amy Lloyd |
Amy Lloyd studied English and Creative Writing
at Cardiff Metropolitan University. In 2016 she won the Daily Mail Bestseller
Competition for her debut novel The Innocent Wife which, when it was
published, became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Amy lives in
Cardiff with her partner, who is also a published novelist.
Right from Amy...
I am the author of two novels: the first is The
Innocent Wife, which became a top 10 bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book
Club pick in 2018. The second is my new novel One More Lie, which will be
available in hardback from April 4th.
Both my books are inspired by true crime. By
crimes themselves but also, and perhaps more importantly, by our reactions to
crime. In The Innocent Wife I wanted to explore our interest in true crime
itself, such as our obsession with podcasts like Serial and blockbuster Netflix
series like Making a Murderer.
My second novel, One More Lie, is about a woman
named Charlotte who has just been released from a secure institution for a
crime she committed when she was a child. These cases seem to fascinate and
horrify society in a way no other crime does. What is it about the idea of a
child being capable of something so awful that stirs up such levels of emotion?
And can a child really understand the gravity of such an act as murder?
Writing this book was an attempt to understand
how something like this could happen and what it might be like to live with the
burden of being infamous, branded as evil and not knowing whether you are a bad
person or simply a person who did a bad thing.
It isn't based on a particular example of a true
crime and all the characters and situations are entirely fictional but people
will naturally draw comparisons with some of the infamous cases involving
children who hurt or killed other children because these stories remain so
vivid in our memories. Instead, I wanted to evoke the atmosphere those crimes
created and the stain they left on our collective consciousness.
While writing the book, I tried hard to
empathise with my characters who have done things which aren't easy to
empathise with. I hoped that readers would be able to do the same and so I
wrote them as vividly as I could imagine, in all their good and their bad. I
wanted them to be human, believable and flawed.
I hope that One More Lie will offer a different
perspective on a subject which has been much-explored and that people will
enjoy it the way they enjoyed The Innocent Wife.
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