Pounding on the door. My seven-year-old son shaking me awake. My head fuzzy with sleeping pills. The hallway flashing with blue light. This morning my life will change forever.
Alex Kendrew is juggling single parenthood, work and dating; with a wild, impetuous streak that's hard to keep in check, she struggles to find a balance and feels perpetually guilty for the choices she makes.
In K.A. Masson's domestic noir thriller, Alex begins a passionate affair when an old flame gets in touch. But one morning, the police arrest her for his attempted murder. Someone is framing her; can she prove her innocence as the evidence mounts against her?
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'Mum, wake up. Mum, there's someone at the door' I was dreaming, surely. PROLOGUE, NOW
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(Bellenden Projects, 17 October 2020, 545 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 17 February via @RandomTTours)
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This is a new author for me. I haven't read many domestic thrillers and they're a genre I think I should read more of so this seemed like a good place to start. I really enjoyed Alter Ego and will read the author again. I liked the characters in the book; they are all quite unique and well developed even minor ones. The book starts off innocently enough with Alex being swept into an affair and struggles with self-control when an old lover crashes into her life. Things got much darker than I expected and I didn't know where the book was going to go. I'd recommend this.
