When teenage friends Lizzie and Alice decide to head off for a walk in the countryside, they are blissfully unaware that this will be their final day together - and that only Lizzie will come back alive.
Lizzie has no memory of what happened in the moments before Alice died, she only knows that it must have been a tragic accident. But as she tries to cope with her grief, she is shocked to find herself alienated from Alice's friends and relatives. They are convinced she somehow had a part to play in her friend's death.
Twelve years later, unpacking boxes in the new home she shares with her fiancé, Lizzie is horrified to find traumatic memories and paranoia suddenly surfacing. Is the trauma of the accident finally catching up with her, or could someone be trying to threaten her new-found happiness?
Twelve years is a long time to wait, when you're planning the perfect revenge . . .***
She'd created a little altar on the chest of drawers in her bedroom.
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(@TransworldBooks, 18 February 2021, 289 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 13 March via @RandomTTours)
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This is a new author for me, and I will definitely read more of her work. The Dare is a terrific read, the kind of twisty thriller I love. I loved the fact the author uses a non-linear structure and moves the story between 2007 and 2019 as Lizzie starts to remember the terrible night she lost her best friend and starts to find answers to the reason Alice's friend and relatives have given her the cold-shoulder ever since. I liked the fact the narrator changes age when the story moves into the past. Not all author do this, and it works really well. Like my favourite thrillers, The Dare is full of twists and turns and misdirection. A corker of a read.
