Wednesday 22 March 2023

5-star alert: THE ONLY SUSPECT by Louise Candlish

 


Author:  Louise Candlish

Read: March 2023

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

 

Book Description:

 

Withheld for the sake of getting the most out of this mystery



My musings:

 

What a brilliantly deceptive, wicked and clever mystery this was! Louise Candlish is getting better and better.

 

Rolling out in two separate timelines, the mid-nineties and today, we get transported straight into the lives of two men, Alex and Rick, whose lives will spectacularly intersect later in the book. This is all I am willing to say – you really should go into this one blind and let you take it along its winding dangerous path (which incidentally also features in the story).

 

Cleverly constructed and tricking you by its innocuous beginning, THE ONLY SUSPECT was one of those psychological thrillers I couldn’t put down until I had all the answers. If you love mysteries where nothing is quite what it seems and every character has a secret to guard, then this is definitely the right book for you!

 

PS: I never give trigger warnings, but you may get a laugh out of this one: I think I have a phobia of house guests that overstay their welcome, because there was a part in the book where I felt myself becoming very anxious, with sweating palms and a racing heart, and perhaps discovering some slightly murderous tendencies within my own heart towards one particular character. If you share that sentiment, have a stiff drink ready before you delve in!




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