With Malice by Eileen Cook

With Malice

by Eileen Cook

Wish you weren't here . . .

When Jill wakes up in a hospital bed with her leg in a cast, the last six weeks of her life are a complete blank. All she has been told is that she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy and had to be jetted home to receive intensive care. Care that involves a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident . . . wasn't just an accident.

With no memory of what happened or what she did, can Jill prove her innocence? And can she really be sure that she isn't the one to blame?

Reviewed by Joséphine on

4 of 5 stars

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April 30, 2016

Just saw the cover of the UK edition from Hot Key Books. Aesthetically, I prefer to the cover of the US edition but after reading the book and knowing what happens, I think the UK cover better embodies the expectations one might derive from it. The primary setting isn't Italy, as one might anticipate based on the US cover.
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April 2, 2016

Actual rating: 4.5 stars

Initial thoughts: Any book that keeps me up at night deserves a high rating. With Malice did exactly that. I couldn't sleep until I was done. On one hand, that's just the nature of the genre. You want to know what really happened and uncover the truth because in a psychological thriller amnesia often is a plot device. Here too, the main character, Jill, suffered memory loss and tried to piece her life together again. I was completely sucked into this journey of hers, reading her story, witness accounts, social media posts and comments, etc. While I had an inkling of what might've gone down fairly early on, I was still constantly on the edge of my seat.

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