I am delighted to share my review today for Someone is Lying by Heidi Perks. I have read a few of this author’s books and they are great if you are a fan of twisty crime and thriller reads.
My huge thanks to Penguin Random House for accepting my request to read this title via NetGalley.
How do you find your daughter when no one believes she is missing?
Single mother Jess and her daughter Issie have always shared an unbreakable bond. For the last seven years, it’s been just the two of them.
That is, until Issie meets Dylan.
When the pair announce their plans to go travelling, Jess is devastated – Issie is only seventeen after all, and Jess doesn’t trust her daughter’s new boyfriend.
And when she stops hearing from her altogether, she’s terrified.
With Dylan refusing to talk, and the police unwilling to help, Jess is faced with a mother’s worst nightmare.
Can she find her daughter before it’s too late?
MY REVIEW
This book is fabulous. It revolves, or maybe it should be evolves around a young couple who went to Portugal for a holiday and then disappeared. This is a mixed media format and the author has done a great job of flitting between narrative, email and text messages.
Jess is separated from her husband Scott who now lives with his new wife in the US. Together they have a daughter, Issie, bright, positive, with good friends and has a focus on where her future is due to go. Her boyfriend is Dylan, he is not as well educated and has a very different background to Issie. While she has a comfortable lifestyle, his involves working hard as his mother does to provide a basic standard of living.
Jess had noticed some changes in her daughter since Issie and Dylan had got together. Jess has her doubts about letting her go on holiday with Dylan, but she does relent and they go off. Issie will spend her 18th birthday away and Jess expects to be able to get in touch with Issie given their closeness. She hears nothing, cannot get hold of her, there are no updates on social media and she begins to worry and think the worst. Eventually getting in touch with Portuguese police to look into her missing daughter.
The author does a fantastic job of creating a mystery and then twisting it far from the original premise. She shows how parents will help their children, and do what they can to discover the truth and keep them safe from harm. But, is there a limit?
The author looks into both families and gives backgrounds, their struggles,e expectations and also how they see others and how others see them. When things start to emerge about the disappearance then things begin to slot into place, but do they?
This is another fabulous story that twists emotions, challenges beliefs and tests the willpower and strength of a person’s conviction. Very much a story about right and wrong, and then some! This is a suspense-filled crime thriller that had me hooked. Ideal for fans of family-based drama and thriller stories and is one I would recommend.
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