Item: Last One to Lie
Rating: 5.00
Author: bookanonjeff

by J.M. Winchester

Moving to a new city was supposed to be a fresh start for her family. Now it’s a nightmare.

Her little girl was supposed to be at day care when Kelsey arrived to pick her up. But they have no record of her daughter ever being there. And to make matters worse, her husband is missing too—he won’t pick up his phone, and the school he supposedly works at says he never accepted their job offer.

Detective Paul Ryan knows something’s up with Kelsey’s story. Kelsey’s husband might be involved in their daughter’s disappearance, but the deeper the detective digs, the more inconsistencies he finds.

As Detective Ryan tries to uncover the truth, what he finds are more deeply buried secrets that someone clearly never wanted found.

Complete MindF*ck. This was one of those books that sucks you in, doesn't let you go, and twists your brain every which way imaginable... and then doesn't even have the decency to set it straight before throwing you to the curb, finished with the book. At least my ARC copy - acquired far enough ahead of publication that this could possibly have been changed - has a slightly confusing (but interesting) way of labeling the chapters with timestamps but not perspectives, so it usually takes a few sentences or even a few paragraphs to understand whose mind you're in at a given point. Explosive almost from the first word to the last. A welcome "lighter" sophomore effort under this name (if only in comparison to *just how dark* the freshman book under this name was), reading this author's romance books under her real name followed soon after by one of the books under this name is a particular revelation of just how gifted a storyteller she truly is. Very much recommended.

Last One to Lie

by J.M. Winchester

Reviewed by Jeff Sexton on Jun 4, 2020

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