One More Lie by Amy Lloyd #bookreview #thriller

Title: One More Lie

Author: Amy Lloyd

Publisher: Hanover Square Press

Publication Date: May 28, 2019

Page Count: 336

My rating: 4 1/2 stars

About the book:

She seeks the truth. He seeks revenge.

Charlotte wants to start fresh. She wants to forget her past, forget prison and, most of all, forget Sean. But old habits die hard. Despite the ankle monitor she must wear as part of her parole agreement and frequent visits to her therapist, she soon finds herself sliding back toward the type of behavior that sent her to prison in the first place. The further down that path she goes, however, the closer she gets to the crime that put her in prison all those years ago. And that’s the one memory she can’t face. Until, one day, Sean tracks her down.

Amy Lloyd, the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of The Innocent Wife, returns with a chilling portrait of a woman trying to be good, even when she isn’t sure she wants to be.

One More Lie is the second  book published by author Amy Lloyd and having read her first I was extremely curious how the second would be. Both of the books are fictional stories based off real life crimes and I was a little iffy on the first but still intrigued but in my opinion this one got even better.

One More Lie tells the story of Charlotte, a woman now in her late twenties that has just been released from prison. The twist with Charlotte’s story though is she doesn’t actually remember whether she was guilty or not as she was only a young child at the time she and her friend had been arrested.

Living almost twenty years behind bars with most being her formative childhood and teenage years it’s safe to say Charlotte really has no idea how the world works or how to exist in it now. Charlotte does have the help of her trusted therapist though and hopes to make a good life for herself now.

Amy Lloyd did a wonderful job writing this one through the eyes of her unreliable narrator. There’s this dark and creepy vibe from the very beginning that makes one question just what happened all those years before. We hear of horrible crimes daily and sometimes those are even committed by children so this had this realistic but sinister vibe down perfectly leaving me to rate it at 4 1/2 stars.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Amy Lloyd studied English and creative writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She won the Daily Mail First Novel Competition for The Innocent Wife in 2016. She lives in Cardiff, Wales, with her partner and two cats.