Published by Bookouture on April 23, 2019
Genres: Fiction, Psychological, Thrillers
Pages: 298
Format: ARC, eBook
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You whispered goodnight to your daughter. You didn’t know that would be your last goodbye.
You wake up in the middle of the night.
Your five-year-old daughter is gone.
Your husband is nowhere to be seen.
Your family think he took her.
The police believe he’s guilty.
But he wouldn’t do that, would he?
He’s a loving father. A loving husband. Isn’t he?
An addictive and completely gripping psychological thriller with a twist that will blow you away. Fans of The Girl on the Train, K.L. Slater and Shalini Boland won’t be able to put down this jaw-dropping novel.
This is my very first Bookouture Books On Tour blog tour and when I saw this book, The Family Lie by Jake Cross, I was very intrigued. Then, when I read what it was about, I was super eager to join.
The story begins when Anna Carter wakes up to strange sounds coming from the baby monitor. Then she notices that her husband, Nick, is not in bed. She goes into her daughter, Josie’s room to see what’s causing the noise she heard on the baby monitor. The window is open, the floor is wet from the rain, and Josie is gone. Anna goes through the house room by room looking for both Nick and Josie, but she finds no one. She also sees that the door is open on the patio along with the gate leaving the yard.
Upon further investigation, Anna realizes that the wetness on the floor she thought earlier was rain is actually blood. She then calls the police and reports both Nick and Josie missing. The police arrive and ask a lot of questions and something doesn’t feel right. While Anna really believes that someone took both of them, but the police think otherwise — they think that Nick has Josie and they are gone.
Because this is a thriller, you know that’s about all I can tell you about the story without writing a spoiler. I’ll tell you though, this book was a serious page turner. I kept wanting to know what was next — who took the girl and whether her father was responsible. I wanted to know where had they gone, were they together, did the husband have the daughter, or was it something darker than that? So many of this family’s truths really caused readers to have immediate opinions on the “who dun it” of this story.
The Family Lie was a very engaging and tension filled story all the way through to the end. I couldn’t believe I blew through this book as fast as I did, but you can’t help but to keep turning pages to get to the truth. The author did a great job with the main characters and I’d definitely read another Jake Cross thriller!
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THE CHOICE is his first novel, the first of three thrillers to be published by Bookouture, and he hopes you like it. If you don’t, he at least hopes you don’t ask for a refund.
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Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for an eARC of this book. This did not influence my review. All opinions are my own.
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