Catherine has started reading a book she found in her home and is enjoying it, until she realises the story is about her life and a dark secret she thought was hidden. That's how the book starts, with every second chapter devoted to this shadowy other person we don't know much about, no doubt it's the person behind this book that was sent to Catherine. We don't know what the secret is, how this mysterious person came to know and why they've decided to write the book and send it to Catherine. I presume we eventually find out, I however did not because I stopped reading it. I tried 2 or 3 times to read this book and get into it, initially lured by comparisons to The Girl on the Train, but I found it slow and almost formulaic. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I read and enjoy plenty of books that can be formulaic but I just wasn't in the frame of mind for this and I wasn't enjoying it. This isn't a bad book per se, just not for me

This was okay, but drew on far too many of the familiar tropes of the domestic noir genre. Skipped to the end.

A well told psychological thriller fast paced and snappy.

Revelations coming out left right and centre, so much so that it left me dizzy and like a dog chasing its tail. Hence the 3 stars, it lost me!

I just couldn't connect to most of the characters, they didn't seem real to me, a bit wooden and stiff.

Catherine's past comes back to haunt her.
Same kind of story that's been told over and over really. I did enjoy the mystery of it once it was revealed [I did sorta guess though].

Raw emotions within the plot, I got that.
Its just a subject matter that's been written time and time again, just with different characters.

Its a middle of the road rating from me, it just didn't blow me away as an avid reader.
It just didn't stand out from many books like this in this genre and subject. Not for me anyhow.

My thanks to Random House UK, Transworld Publishers for my copy via Net Galley.