He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder.
Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death.
Eighteen months later, Erin is in court, charged with her husband's murder. Over that year and a half, Erin has learned things about Danny she could never have imagined. She thought he was perfect. She thought their life was perfect.
But it was all built on the perfect lie.
I'd like to thank Quercus for my copy of The Perfect Lie to review via NetGalley.
I have to wonder what exactly goes on in Jo Spain's brain and how does she come up with the interesting concepts for her books. And with The Perfect Lie she's certainly written another twisty tale that had me constantly second guessing what was going on.
The opening chapter was certainly eye-opening and the events that followed turns the life of Erin Kennedy upside down in the most shocking of ways. I had so many questions running through my head wondering why Danny was scared of his colleagues at the door and what was going through his head when he took that final step.
The story is told through multiple timelines, Then, Now and Harvard, as we follow events leading up to that fateful day and in the present day we discover that she's on trial for her husband's murder. Immediately I was wondering how on earth she could be on trial for murder when there were multiple witnesses to her husband's suicide but of course nothing is as straightforward as it seems and it's only over time that the truth is uncovered.
I certainly needed to keep my wits about me as the storylines flipped back and forth between the various timelines, particularly with the Harvard sections as was initially unclear as to the significance, especially regarding who certain characters were and their relevance in the overall storyline. But slowly but surely each little nugget of information provided enabled me to get a clearer picture as to what exactly had happened to reach this point. Every time I thought I had figured it all out something else would crop up and I'd be back to the beginning and having to work on a totally new theory.
Another addictive, cleverly plotted thriller that will keep readers on their toes.
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