I’d like to thank Harlequin UK and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘I Know Who You Are’ by Alice Feeney in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Actress Aimee Sinclair arrives home from filming to discover her house empty. Her husband Ben has gone although his wallet, phone, keys, clothing and car are still there, and when she tries to withdraw money from their joint account finds that it’s been emptied of £10,000, supposedly by her. Aimee rings the police to report his disappearance but when DI Alex Croft and DS Wakeley question her they say that Ben made a complaint to the police the day before about her hitting him and they don’t believe Aimee’s version of events.

‘I Know Who You Are’ is a fast-paced psychological thriller which moved effortlessly between Aimee’s childhood in Galway in 1997 to the present time. The plot was very well written, it started slowly then gradually the tension increased until I was sitting on the edge of my seat unable to stop reading. It’s nerve-wracking, chilling, gruesome at times, there are twists and turns, frightening characters and a completely unexpected ending, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought this was interesting at the beginning. It did not go the way I was expecting and I did not find any of the characters particularly engaging. It got ridiculously convoluted and violent and became totally unbelievable, especially the twist at the end.

This is the first novel I have read by Alice Feeney and ‘I Know Who You Are’ is certainly different.

Aimee comes home to find that her husband is missing. She is at a loss and doesn’t seem to know what to do. She contacts the police who seem to thing she is hiding something. She is hiding something but it is a deep dark secret, which she has never shared.

The story is told from the present day and a historical date and the weaving and twists are well portrayed. Having said that I struggled with the book and found myself skipping parts. I did enjoy some of it and I love strange, different endings but this did not sit well with me.

Thank you to NetGally, HQ, General Fiction Adult and Alice Feeney for my ARC in return for my honest review.

Recommended.

Aimee Sinclair is an actress, on the verge of being very famous. One day she comes home from work to find her husbands keys and wallet on the table but Ben is nowhere to be found. They had a huge fight the night before so she isn’t too concerned. The next day she goes to buy a coffee but her card is declined, when she calls the bank she is told that she withdrew $10,000 and closed the account. What is going on?
Alongside Aimee’s story is another about a girl who wandered away from home. You should never talk to strangers or bad things will happen.

Bad things happened in this book and I loved it. It is fast paced and kept me turning the pages quickly. I enjoyed the fact I thought I had worked out what was going on and then finding out I was totally wrong. I loved Alices first book Sometimes I Lie and this one is amazing too. Really looking forward to reading the next one!

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

I read Alice Feeney’s other book “Sometimes I Lie” which was a 5 star rating from me, so I had high hopes for this book!!

Aimee Sinclair is an actress married to Ben, when she returns home from her daily jog she discovers that Ben has disappeared leaving his wallet, shoes, phone and coat behind.

Aimee is used to acting the part and seems to be hiding a big secret!! The police suspect her of harming Ben as they have video evidence of them arguing in a restaurant and her slapping him in the face. She must prove her innocence and find out who is stalking her.

Told over 2 timelines 2017 and 1998, we discover who Aimee really is and why she becomes so illusive.

A must read book. I cannot wait to see what Alice Feeney comes up with next - I have become a massive fan!!

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

My thanks to NetGalley and publisher HQ for the ARC.
On balance, I enjoyed reading this book, but do have some reservations about it.

Aimee is an actress, through and through. Just about to hit the big time, her 2-year marriage to Ben is rocky. Following an argument the previous evening Aimee returns home to find a vase of flowers with a card 'I'm Sorry' attached, Ben's wallet, phone and keys are on the table - but no Ben. She'd tried to withdraw money from their account earlier, only to discover their joint account of £10,000 had been emptied - apparently by herself. Aimee reports Ben missing but when detectives arrive they were really there to question her on a violent assault she had apparently made upon her husband. She struggles to provide a photograph of her husband - there are none in the house except one old black and white which doesn't look like him at all. She tells us of a long-time stalker who keeps leaving postcards saying just "I Know Who You Are", but feels the police don't believe her. She searches the house for unpacked boxes in the loft - only finding a shoe box containing all the suspicious postcards. Ben had bought the house whilst she was in LA and there was nothing personal in it.

Told from the past and present, 1987 and 2017, 30 years apart, we meet Ciara as a 6yr-old in Ireland, living in poverty with Dad and Brother, her mother having died in childbirth, and Ciara incessantly blamed for killing her dad's wife and brother's mother. Running off, she is abducted and ends up in Essex living above a bookmaker's premises owned by her new 'mother' Maggie and new 'father' John. Ciara is now called Aimee. She's schooled in acting for one reason or another during childhood and school. She's good at it and wins a scholarship to RADA.
Her past is behind her - her new 'parents' are dead, her husband is missing and when the police find a body, they believe she killed him.

Now, mostly I really liked learning about Aimee's earlier life, well-written and very readable, with good child-language and expression and characterisation. However, fast-forward to Aimee in the present, the reading was more of a slow slog. Her character seemed totally different, albeit her use of acting skills to cover her emotions, she seemed so totally 'lost' in the situation.

The hints the reader is given all along gradually gel into coherent ideas, but when it came to leading up to and presenting the totally unexpected conclusion it all seemed to become too complicated, too left-field, too rushed, and was not satisfying at all.

Yes, there are some twists here and there, but the concluding twist was, well................

3.5 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley and HQ for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

I have mixed feelings about this book. The first 80% I was really enjoying. There were many times I had to keep reading thanks to the cliffhangers of the chapters and wanting to know who "Maggie" was in the present time.
And then we finally find out who "Maggie" is. And I was just like, wtf?! It's so totally far fetched it's unreal, which is what lost stars for me. And the ending. Another 'wtf' moment.

This book is a slow burner that creeps up on you and before you know know you are totally engrossed in a very compelling and chilling story. Told in two different time lines of present and past we are fed titbits of information both about Aimee and a young 6 year old girl who wandered away from home only to find she trusted the wrong person.
This really is a book that draws you in making you sure you know where the story is going only to find out that you are wrong and don’t you just love that in a thriller !!!
It’s also difficult to review without giving anything away but I have to say it’s twisty, clever and a damn good read with one hell of a brilliant ending so as I far as I am concerned this is a book not to be missed and I can recommend it if you love a great read.
My thanks to NetGalley, Alice Feeney and HQ for giving me the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I enjoyed large parts of this book, but about half way through I thought it paused a bit and needed to move on. It certainly kept me gripped, and the use of two time periods worked well. I particularly liked the story line of Aimee as a child, and the use of childlike vocabulary. However, towards the end the author lost me. The story became too unrealistic and I was skimming through to get to the end.

Aimee Sinclair is an actress who likes to get lost in her parts as she knows them better than herself. Aimee comes home to find her husband Ben missing after a fight when she asked for a divorce. The police are at first sympathetic but when they find sightings of Aimee show she has been lying and then lack of proof Ben even exists start to investigate her. The story jumps back into Aimee’s past to show a very disturbing and troubled childhood. The twists and turns of this story keep coming and you will not see the biggest twist of all. The characters are very difficult to like. You are shown how fake the film industry is. Trust no one!
I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Well, this book took me completely by surprise; it had me gripped by the end of the first chapter.
What is strange is I almost gave up on it a few pages in as I didn’t like the writing style and thought it wasn’t going to be for me. I even went as far as looking up on NetGalley how I could cancel a request. When I realised it would affect my NetGalley feedback ratio, I decided to preserve, and I’m so glad I did!
There are small cliff hangers or hooks at the end of most chapters that make you want to keep reading. The chapters themselves are short, so you really fly through the story. When I decided to ‘slog’ on with the book, I said to myself get to 25% tonight, but before I knew it, I was at 51% and having to put it down to get some sleep. I could have read it straight through it was that captivating!
The chapters alternate between 2017 and 1987 when Aimee was a child, I think it was this back story that really drew me in, though. It was really different from anything I had read before and quite shocking! It is also the backstory that enables you to really get to know Aimee, she seems so timid in the present-day and hard to like at the beginning, but once the story is unfolding you can’t help but feel sorry for her and hope everything gets sorted.
The twists at the end I just don’t see coming, it’s been a while that I have been as taken by surprise by a book as I have with this one. It was very well done and has left my head spinning a little.
Some of the reviews on NetGalley say that this isn’t as good as her first book, so I am now dying to read her first book as this one was fantastic, so what does that make the first?!?
I honestly didn’t think when I started reading this I would be giving it five stars, I thought it was going to take me ages to get through, but I read it in less than 16 hours (including sleep)! I definitely recommend it and don’t be put off by the strange writing style, to begin with, you don’t even notice it by the end of the first chapter, it just becomes part of the story!

I Know Who You Are is one of those stories that drags you in and refuses to let go ( it made me late to my own birthday dinner!). Dark, tragic, twisted and full of suspense I really couldn't ask for more from a book. If you read one book this year then make it this one!

This book got dark and twisted very fast! This is the first book I’ve read by Alice Feeney and wow... I’m definitely going to be reading her others! The storyline was great, and I’ve never read a book like this! There were times when I felt like my heart had stopped due to the suspense! I really liked all of the characters and think that they were all written really well. Every character was relevant and played an important part in the storyline. The amount of twists towards the end of this book really had me intrigued and trying to keep up. So many secrets that Feeney waited to reveal until the very end. The reason for my 4 star rating instead of 5 is because some parts felt a little slow going and uneventful. However that is the only flaw with this book and I definitely recommend this to all thriller lovers!

A thoroughly good read. Great writing as was hard to tell how the story would unfold. Did not expect that ending.

A great story that keeps you guessing throughout and throws up a nice little twist at the end! Worth a read but be prepared to keep guessing...

4.5 stars.
Having read and loved Sometimes I Lie when I read it a while back, I was very intrigued to see what the author had in store for her next book. Although this one didn't quite hit the heady heights of her debut, it was a thoroughly satisfying read.
Aimee is an actress, on the verge of hitting the big time. But her life spirals out of control on the day she comes home to find her husband's phone and wallet abandoned on the dining room table. They had a fight the night before so she's not overly concerned as she just thinks he's gone for a time out! But then, next day when she tries to use her bank card, she discovers that her account is empty. Suspecting her husband has stolen the money and disappeared, she calls the bank only to find that it was actually her that closed the account. Panicking now, afraid of something in her past coming to light as well as being a suspect in her husband's disappearance, Aimee faces a race against time to get to the bottom of what is going on before it's too late.
As well as the action going on in the present, we also have chapters from Aimee's childhood interspersed throughout the book. They start with her as a small child and continue with her life as she grows up - each chapter taking us a step towards the present. These parts are quite uncomfortable to read at times as her past is rather harrowing but do go some way to explain why she is who she is today.
Aimee is a bit of a complex character - and we know from SIL that this author is a bit good at creating this type! But she piqued my interest early on and, as the book continued, I started to warm to her a bit more. Especially as I learned more about where she came from. Other characters were well described and played their parts well. Spoilers prevent me from going into much more detail about any of them!
There are twists and turns aplenty along the way as more of the past inveigles the present and I tried to work out what in heck was actually going on. I do have to admit that I was close, but definitely no cigar as I never saw what happened coming and, when it did arrive, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Oh My G... I had to have a little pause after that body blow... and a shower!
All in all, although a little busy at times, this was a thoroughly satisfying, if a little disturbing, read. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

This book took me ages to read. I couldn't really get into the plot although the premise was good. I did see it through but it was very wordy so I had to skim.

I love surprise endings and this one I didn't see coming because it was so ridiculous!

Read and reviewed in exchange for a free copy from NetGalley. I enjoyed this book. It was a quick and easy read, and Feeney alternates between the voices well. The descriptions were detailed and didn't detract from the story, and I thought the characters were realistic and interesting. Although the twist at the end worked well however, I did feel it was rushed.

What a cracking read! This just twists and turns and what you think one minute changes all the time. Absolutely read, highly recommended #NetGalley #IKnowWhoYouAre

I found the back and forward story telling to be a bit confusing but on the whole it was a good readable story .