Believe Me: The twisty and addictive thriller from bestselling author of The Girl Before

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A premise that requires all suspension of disbelief and an unreliable narrator makes for a frustrating more so than thrilling read, but for two-thirds of the way Believe Me is a reasonably entertaining, albeit pretty average, psychological thriller. Claire loses her job, but is offered an opportunity to entrap Patrick by NYPD cop Frank Durban and Forensic Psychologist, Dr Kathryn Latham who believe Patrick is guilty of murdering his wife and 8 prostitutes that they know of in his life. The story had some great twists and turns, leading up to an intense and gripping ending that I never saw coming! When the wife of one of Claire’s targets is violently murdered, the cops are sure the husband is to blame. Everything about it was so carefully crafted, from the story to the characters to the writing techniques.

A marginally plausible plot is turned into a comic book detective story by the use of some really awful location scenes with trashy sound effects. Yes, our lead characters, Claire and Patrick, are complex and interesting however, when the big plot reveal happens, I was at first blown away, but then started to think about all the plot moments that had led to this point and some required a little too much in the way of suspension of disbelief. I read this in one sitting and I’m not even mad that, when I got out of bed to walk around, I had pins and needles and patterns etched into my skin from sitting in one place for too long.It wasnt gripping or exciting and I really disliked the main character even though the character was playing a character. I think some readers will find themselves hating his poetry that appears in this book, and that is a completely valid reaction.

So, to conclude, it is a very artistic, poetic and sophisticated psychological thriller, where suspicions and illusion plays an integral part.She is resourceful though, and uses her acting skills to lure unfaithful husbands into a sort of divorce trap (so the wives can be certain whether their husbands are cheaters). I'm only somewhat familiar with scripts (having read a few for my dad who free-lances B-movies on the side) and so I was a bit wary of this.

The narrative was told from a single perspective, but that was necessary to keep the suspense going, and it was fully sufficient for me. I say it with such offhand nonchalance, such gratitude, that even I’d be surprised to discover it’s a lie. She is hired to entrap cheating husbands…though she prefers to think of it as “ behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances”. And the book also provides several scenes as if you were reading from a movie script, another really cool concept. Either way I wasn’t that interested as Delaney’s cardboard characterisation made my lasting memory of this novel a disappointing one.

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