Not a book that I could get into, despite trying on two separate occasions. Although I received the advance reader copy via NetGalley to read and review, I feel that is not possible on this occasion.

This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Jessica’s relationship is failing and her life is spiralling as the company she works for has just disappeared. Jessica sets out to claim her life back and prove her innocence. This was a middle of the road read for me. Would I rush to read more? No.
Thank you to netgalley for this arc in exchange for my review.

Brilliant edge of your seat writing.
Really gripping and I read the book in a day
Highly recommended

Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for ARC

This was a gripping and tense psychological thriller with an emotional plotline. I loved the writing style and was kept on the edge of my seat. Another brilliant book from the author.

A very chilling start, a man lies broken at the bottom of the stairs, will help come in time and will the perpetrator get away with it?

After her holiday with partner Michael, Jessica goes to work only to find her office has a new lock and has become a beauty salon. Her boss Jacob Wrath has disappeared. Ironically their business was to find missing persons!!

Jessica then investigates what has happened to Jacob and after the discovery of a dead body this opens up a whole new can of worms!!!

I’m not going to give anything away plot wise as this is an amazing book, that will keep you guessing all the way through It has more twists than the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, the secrets are slowly revealed, keeping the mystery and suspense going.

A must read book that should come with a warning, highly addictive. So cosy down on the sofa as this is one book you will not be able to put down.

A must read thriller, in fact I would go as far as to say that this is personally my best psychological thriller of 2018 and this is not an easy accolade as I have read 180 books already this year!!!

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

Thanks to netgalley for the ARC of this entertaining read. The book was really well-written, and worth it. Highly recommended.

This was a completely different type of story - I loved Jessica despite her inappropriate behaviour. The story was very amusing and cleverly plotted. Was Jessica just so doped up with pills to try and control her mental health issues she imagined all that was going on or was David a controlling lover using and abusing her? I would love this book to be the first in a series about Jessica, I feel she has so much more to offer.
Many thanks to Netgalley/Joss Stirling/Harperimpulse for a digital copy of this title. All opinions expressed are my own.

Don't Trust Me by Joss Stirling is a stunning psychological debut with a shocking twist. Full of twists and turns and engaging characters.

Thank you to netgalley and Joss Stirling for allowing me to read this book for my honest opinions. I could not put this book down! It was fantastic from start to finish. Highly recommended

I was given an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

I appreciated the protagonist’s unique perspective, and it was enjoyable to see a protagonist living with mental illness who may or may not be an unreliable narrator who was relatively functional, with a good sense of humor and a social life. A perfectly good thriller In other respects, that’s just what stood out to me

Don't trust Me

The title phrase suggests someones words and since we are set up to dislike the main character Jessica we are left wondering why.

All is not as it seems and as you read your artfully made to like or dislike characters and then guided to changing your opinions as the past and the truth is revealed in drip and drabs.

Jessica is a mess and it's hard to see how the proper Michael, a celebrated criminologist has ever gotten involved with her, so the breakdown of their relationship at the start is realistic.

She then makes bad decision after worse and you wonder how it can ever end.

There's a white knight in Drew who wears a lot of black and is an undertaker just for ironic effect! He gives us a refreshing relief to the chaos of Jessica on the world.

Michael is a widower and his dead wife, Emma, has mystery surrounding her and her daighter. Jessica in an impulsive move takes pictures of her diary as she leaves Michael and reading backwards reveals secrets buried in Emma's past.

It's is only as she puts everything together does the truth come clear putting everyone in danger.

Who is the murderer and why? You will have to read till the end to find out the body count and if Jessica can ever have a life less messy.

I loved every minute of this novel and it's unpredictability.

Beautifully crafted, I will wait to see if this is the start of an unusual detective series with a very British style.

This is a tense and thrilling psychological drama, perfect for fans of an unputdownable page-turner! Can you imagine turning up for work and nothing is there? (I might’ve wished for that once or twice....!) Highly recommend!

Sadly, I’ve tried to read this book a few times and it’s one of those that I keep putting down. I’ve left writing this review until I could “hit the nail on the head” as to why.

I think it’s because it’s a story that’s quite slow paced and to me drags and thus it’s not capturing my attention.

But this is just my view and I’ve added to my “not for me”. If you enjoy the slower paced books then it could be for you!

If you are searching for a thriller full of plot twists and turns, then you have have found it with this novel. From the very beginning, Joss Stirling grabs the reader and does not let go until that final page has been turned.
I loved that the story was fast paced, unpredictable and captivating with an ending I did not see coming! Would highly recommend this book.

After the prologue, it was slow to get going and had an unusually flippant style which threw me initially. Once I'd worked out more on the plot and the characters it began to make sense and became a compelling read. It has all the ingredients of a thrilling, unpredictable read. Jessica, the focal character is well portrayed and memorable. Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for a riveting thriller.

I thoroughly enjoyed ‘Don’t Trust Me’ and found myself wanting to race through the book as quickly as possible to find out the truth.
Jessica is a potentially unreliable narrator. She suffers from ADHD and finds it hard to hold down a job. Her psychologist boyfriend, Michael, doesn’t seem to believe anything she says.
Is Jessica a total fantasist or is she telling the truth?
A totally gripping and enjoyable read.
Highly recommend.
Thanks to NetGalley for a Kindle copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Don't trust me is a psychological thriller that was a page turning read with a difference.
Jessica is the main character in this book, I took to her straightaway and although she does do things throughout the book that sometimes made me think 'why!!??' I did on the whole like her.
Jessica has returned from a holiday with her partner, Michael, who I disliked instantly. You can tell from the start that this a relationship that has run its course with the main areas being Jessicas ADHD and the general way Michael talks and treats Jessica. The book has plenty of twists and turns starting with Jessicas job that she has held for three months and after her holiday goes to but finds the locks have been changed and it is totally empty to coming home and Michael finding some of his deceased wife belongings having been taken and blames Jessica for it. I'm not going to spoil this read for you in anyway so am not going to reveal anything but all I can say is you have to read this. I read a lot of psychological thrillers as this is the genre I love the most but when you read a lot you find they all start to become a little similar but not this this has a different plot line altogether and a cracking end.
I would like to thank Netgalley and HarperColllins UK, Killer Reads for this ARC I was sent in exchange for an honest review.

Don't Trust Me by Joss Stirling was a very enjoyable Psychological thriller.
The story centres around Jessica and the surrounding events that occur after she returns from a holiday in the sun with her older boyfriend renowned criminologist Michael.
It's quite apparent from the very beginning that her relationship with him is on the rocks.
He believes her to be a fantasist with a made up job and also a pathological liar who needs help for her constantly destructive behaviour.
In fact, Jessica's main offence is actually a mental breakdown from depression after her integrity over events with a student was called into question in her previous teaching position.
She resigned on the advice of Michael rather than waiting to be sacked.
This as a result, ended her career in education but also came with an added diagnosis of ADHD.
from Jessica's therapist which at last explained an awful lot to her.
So after returning from there holiday Michael makes a swift exit leaving on business.
Jessica proceeds to travel to her job of three months, researching runaways but on arriving her keys no longer fit and her boss seems to have cleared out without a trace.
dumfounded Jessica starts to look into things unwittingly uncovering more than she realises and it's not long before events themselves escalate dramatically leaving Jessica floundering for answers.
So there was a lot going on here.
Don't Trust Me was a tangled web of intrigue and mystery where nobody could be taken on face value and everybody was a suspect in themselves.
This is told mainly from Jessicas POV with the occasional side scene dedicated to Michael, who does definitely come across as a bit of a jerk.
There is also the input of journal entries from Michaels perfect dead wife, these add an interesting touch and perspective also adding further intimacy and insight into her final days.
Jessica herself is a hot mess, many things contributing to her present self.
She is actually I found a contrast in contradictions, sometimes so difficult to like especially when she goes off plan, selfish decisions and ill thought through actions contribute to her self-destructive conduct.
Other times you kind of get where she's at and why she behaves the way she does.
And when she does do sweet and considerate you realise she's just human at the end of the day.
So yeh difficult one to call, but I did like her the majority of the time.
So The secondary characters here were fantastic each with there own role to play.
My hands-down favourite here though has to be Jessica's friend Drew I absolutely adored everything about the lad in fact if I'm honest I'm not sure Jessica truly deserved him, needed him perhaps and he was definitely good for her but overall he was a lot more decent than she was.
Saying that I am glad he gave her a chance as he helped her to be a better person overall.
And I liked the fact immensely that he was just a normal everyday bloke.
So every little action here was interconnected.
Nothing completely random or left to chance.
Don't Trust me was all wrapped up so neatly and splendidly and I was super impressed with the way the author had carefully crafted the finish of this story.
I did guess some things here but that no way took away from my overall enjoyment of this novel.
I found this book to be an engaging piece of fiction that I am happy to recommend.
I was provided with an ARC of "Don't Trust Me" By Netgalley of which I have reviewed voluntary.

A cleverly written psychological thriller, with a charismatic, if flawed protagonist who finds her life in turmoil when her boss and his business disappear without a trace when she returns from holiday.
There is a constant niggle at the back of your mind when you're reading the early chapters of this story as to whether the unfolding events are products of Jessica's troubled psyche. She is an unreliable protagonist, who abuses her prescription medication and has a naive attitude to sexual partners that threatens her career and self-esteem.
Despite her self-proclaimed flaws and lack of judgement, Jessica doesn't lack insight into her problems and therefore comes across as a believable witness as the story progresses.
Almost any of the characters could be the antagonist, and this gives the story a cosy mystery ambience at times. There are conspiracy theory elements and plenty of mysteries to solve before Jessica can vindicate herself and solve the puzzle that has become her life.
The only person who truly stands by her is Drew, a delightfully, quirky character who is often shocked by Jessica's exploits but always gives her the benefit of the doubt, emotional support that has been missing in her life to date.
The plot has plenty of twists and misinformation which keeps the reader guessing, I did work out most of the story about halfway through, but this didn't spoil the story for me. However, I do feel that the antagonist is revealed sooner than necessary, making the ending more of an action thriller and losing some of its psychological impacts.
'Don't Trust Me', is an eminently, readable thriller that will hold your interest right to the last page.
I received a copy of this book from Killer Reads via NetGalley in return for an honest review.