The Woman Who Lied: The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller from the author of THE COUPLE AT NO 9

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I have read and enjoyed many of Claire Douglas’s thrillers, but this is my least favorite so far. I had a difficult time connecting with this book because I found Olivia exhausting and really tired of her “Woe is me” attitude. Jenna Halliday is a more intriguing protagonist, but the reader only gets a small glimpse into her life. Douglas manages to shed doubt on many characters’ alibis and introduces convincing red herrings, but the plot is very over the top and the reveal was a let down. As Rose’s fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched . . . Libby Hall needs to escape from everything for a while. which is why the house swap is a godsend. The chance for Libby and her husband Jamie to exchange their tiny Bath flat for a beautiful haven on the wild Cornish coast.

The story follows Jenna who is a podcaster trying to uncover what happened 20 years ago in a small town accident when four girls crashed into a tree and three of them disappeared. As she starts to dig deeper, the small town is willing to go to great extents to keep its secrets.

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Twenty years after a car accident has all but been forgotten, the case is reopened by the police force, and a journalist arrives in town to make a podcast about what happened. Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit."--Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex

There are a few townsfolk that aren't too keen on Jenna sniffing around and bringing up old wounds. I wasn't a super big fan of Olivia's boyfriend, Wesley (even though that's my hubs name). He was a bit controlling. I can't say the twist surprised me, but that didn't bother me too much. It was a bit slow going in some spots, but overall I liked it well enough. The Woman Who Lied is a captivating psychological thriller that had me hooked from the beginning. I just couldn't put the book down, and I kept telling myself 'just one more chapter'. There were twists and turns, and I was, along with Emilia, suspecting everyone! Two distinct and gripping narratives come together during the ominous tale of “The Girls Who Disappeared”. A jaunt to Thailand with four couples was a mysterious portion that factored in much later in the book, also. Claire Douglas' characterizations were strong and the book's "What happened to the girls who disappeared?" premise was ultra-compelling. A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls.A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. Twenty years ago, teenager Olivia is driving with her three friends down Devils Corridor near Wiltshire, when there is a car accident. As Olivia swerved her car as she saw a man in the middle of the road. Olivia is rescued but her three friends who was in the car disappeared never to be seen again. Where has her friends gone? One fateful night 20 twenty years ago, a group of 4 young women have an accident after a night out. The accident took place on The Devil's Corridor, a stretch of highway steeped in supernatural superstition. When the car was finally discovered, only one of the girls was inside -- Olivia. The other three completely disappeared without a trace. While theories bounce around town -- even claims of alien abduction -- investigators were never able to solve the mystery.

The infamous Devil’s Corridor is well known for being host to strange, almost supernatural occurrences. From a crying baby with no known source to sightings of a mysterious hooded figure roaming the area, even the nearby town of Stafferbury is thought to have a near mystical quality.However, I really like what Claire Douglas has tried to do here, the premise is clever, but it’s not quite as well executed as her other books in my opinion. However, it’s not the fastest of paces, in fact, at times it’s slow. This isn’t helped by some repetition and over explanation. It’s the ending that I find to be the biggest letdown as I’m expecting much more. It’s too neat yet also strangely OTT. Go figure! So it’s a mixed picture but not a bad read by any means. Even when the dust has settled, the court cases are over, and there has been a laying to rest of some long-held grief and loss, someone still clings to that final secret which will probably never be uncovered, as the truth has been cleverly redirected away from its real perpetrator. If only Jenna and Dale knew the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! One of my favorite quotes is in Chapter 37: It's not like in books, Jenna. Not everything gets explained and tied up nicely in a neat little bow. This world is messy, complicated. . . . Determined to get to the bottom of the case, journalist turned podcaster, Jenna Halliday, travels to the bucolic countryside of Wiltshire to find out for herself. But from the moment her feet hit the ground, she’s met with strong opposition. Nobody in town wants her there and they certainly don’t want her digging into the case. Especially Olivia.