Her Best Friend by Sarah Wray

Her Best Friend by Sarah Wray
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When Sylvie Armstrong was a teenager her best friend, Victoria Bland, was found murdered and things have not been the same for Sylvie since that day. After Victoria’s body was found and her funeral took place Sylvie’s parents sent Sylvie away to school thinking that it would be too hard on their daughter. Shortly after Sylvie’s father also died and Sylvie relationship with her mother became non-existent leaving her to not return to her hometown.

Now, twenty years after Victoria’s death Sylvie finds herself returning to her childhood home after her mother’s passing when her home is left to Sylvie in the will. Returning with her baby Sylvie finds all those memories of her best friend returning to the surface and now with the killer never being found there is a reporter looking into the long buried secrets of the past.

Her Best Friend by Sarah Wray to me was an extremely slow build mystery/thriller read. While I’d like to say I loved this one the pacing really had it a struggle to become engaged as it slowly unfolded. There was a decent story within the pages but not one that truly gripped me to rate this one any higher.

I think also that for myself with as many books that I read this one was also a tad predictable. It seemed to lack the twists and red herrings that I normally love and in my mind seemed to be taking me on a journey to a certain outcome which in the end was pretty spot on. So while the writing is nice enough and the story will be one that engages a lot of readers in the end this one turned out to just be one of those OK reads in my opinion.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.