The Lying Wife - Kathryn Croft

Genre: Thriller | Mystery | Crime

Release Date: 24th February 2022

Publisher: Canelo Books

Callie never expected to be sitting in the cold harsh light of the police station, being charged with murder. Her life has never been easy, and she always kind of knew things would always go wrong for her, but she didn’t see this coming.

When she met James, she became a wife, a stepmother. She became the person she’d always wanted to be, but it keeps falling apart and the harder she tries to hold on, the more it splinters in her hands.

But here, with the detectives staring at her, she has to decide exactly who she’s going to be in this moment. Can she reveal everything she’s seen and done, tell her unspoken truths even if it means everyone she loves will definitely turn their backs on her? Or will her lies be her undoing?

“I am a wife. A mother. A friend. But now I am also a murderer.”

As I've come to expect from Kathryn Croft, The Lying Wife is a riveting, compelling tale of the horrors that can happen to just about anybody. We go back in time with Cassie to find the string of events and catastrophises that led to the moment we meet her, as we slowly learn more about her past, about the worries that she's carried with her that might be seeping into her present - it definitely started a little slow and choppy but that slow-burn soon exploded into utter chaos.

Callie, and everything round her was murky and grey - the lines between villain and victim blurring beyond recognition. The characterisation was impeccably frustrating - I didn't know who to trust or what to believe.

A compulsive tale of obsession that is so unbelievable dramatic that I almost believed it was real life.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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