No More Lies by Rachel Abbott, book eleven in the DCI Tom Douglas series, is, as expected, a complete sleep stealer!
Before I share my review as part of the Random Things Blog Tour, here’s the blurb…
It would be unfair to blame the woman I met tonight for turning my life upside down. She didn’t.
It was already upside down. I just didn’t know it.
Recently life has been good for Mallory Hansen: a great job, a lovely home, and a wonderful man, Nathan, to share it with.
But now she must ask herself: is it all built on lies?
A shocking accusation has been made against Nathan, and Mallory doesn’t know who to believe. He denies everything, but all the signs point to his guilt. She has learned to trust Nathan, but she also remembers the boy he used to be.
As teenagers, Mallory and Nathan were part of a close-knit group of six friends until a vicious argument drove them apart. Now, fifteen years later, they are back in touch – only to find themselves drawn into a web of mutual distrust, one by one…
The attacks on their lives are skilfully targeted, designed to hit them where they hurt the most, and when a young woman disappears and a baby is abducted, DCI Tom Douglas must try to unravel the past and discover who is the architect of their misery.
A DCI Tom Douglas Thriller
An utterly compelling psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Elly Griffiths, and Jane Casey.
Black Dot Publishing Ltd (16 Feb. 2023)
Here’s my review…
This is another absolute belter from Abbott. She has a real knack for creating unusual and complex cases for her team to unravel and it’s no different in No More Lies.
Twisted webs of lies and deceit are at the core of this one, but there’s nowhere to hide when Douglas and his team get involved. Secrets of the past are coming back to haunt a group of old school friends and they haven’t got a clue who’s out to get them or why.
I had real trouble putting this one down. The depth of the characters and the layered plot meant it was impossible to do anything until I’d finished…Sleep was definitely off the agenda! It had me gripped from the start with just the right combination of high-octane thrills and wonderful character descriptions: the word ‘unputdownable’ is the perfect word for this one.
If you’ve missed any of this series, I would say this is a great starting point (if you’re not inclined to start at the beginning but like the sound of this one) as there’s a nice ‘break’ in a subplot that’s been running through the series so far so you’re almost on a clean sheet in that respect.
All in all, No More Lies is utterly fabulous, and you should read it NOW!
About the author…
Rachel Abbott’s debut thriller, Only the Innocent, was an international bestseller, reaching the number one position in the Amazon charts both in the UK and US. This was followed by the number one bestselling novels The Back Road, Sleep Tight, Stranger Child, Nowhere Child (a short novel based on the characters from Stranger Child), Kill Me Again, The Sixth Window, Come a Little Closer, The Shape of Lies, Right Behind You and Close Your Eyes. The new thriller in the Tom Douglas series – No More Lies – was released in February 2023.
In 2018 Rachel released the first book in a new series – And So It Begins. This was followed by The Murder Game in 2020 (The Invitation in the US).
Rachel’s novels have now been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 5 million copies.
In 2015, Amazon celebrated the first five years of the Kindle in the UK and announced that Rachel was the number one bestselling independent author over the five-year period. She was also placed fourteenth in the chart of all authors. Stranger Child was the most borrowed novel for the Kindle in the first half of 2015.
Rachel now lives in Alderney – a beautiful island off the coast of France – where she devotes her time to her love of writing fiction. For more information, see Rachel’s website at http://www.rachel-abbott.com, or follow her on Facebook or Twitter.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater from Random Things Tours for my spot on the tour:
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