A MARRIAGE OF LIES
Amanda McKinney
Storm Publishing
March 29, 2024
273 pages
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Genre: Suspense. Thrillers, Psychological
This book is a little outside my wheelhouse. It was described as a psycho-thriller, which I do enjoy occasionally. But this is also fused with a multiple murder mystery. I don’t usually read murder mysteries but I forged on.
It starts with one murder of a woman but quickly extends to one more, than another. Rowan, the main character, is a police detective working on the murders. Rowan has many problems and insecurities.
This is a multi-layered story with different narrators and many characters. Initially, some of the characters don’t seem connected but, of course, the connections soon emerge. There are also a few flashbacks. It took me a bit to get into the swing of the plot.
It is also very convoluted when the connections between characters start to merge. Sometimes I had to stop reading to sort it out in my mind.
I figured out who the killer was when I had read 58% of the book but it got so convoluted after that, that I changed my mind a dozen times before the end.
While this book was well written and kept me turning the pages, there were times near the beginning that I was tempted to DNF. I was confused by the number of characters that didn’t seem to have any significance. I’m glad I kept going. Well defined characters, great story line, surprising twists.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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