One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked ...
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One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-�-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel. After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul's life--and death--Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can't get out of her head the one tormenting question: what was she forgetting? An investigation into the slaying could provide the answer. It's brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve's worst fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal--and into more danger than she ever imagined. Because Hitching isn't the only one watching Neve. So is a determined killer who's about to make the next terrifying move in a deadly affair....
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The Lying Room is a great concept for me - a woman finds her lover murdered in his flat and helps to cover it up to hide the evidence of her affair. In all ways it should have really gripped me and I should have really struggled to put it down however I did feel that it fell down in some key aspects.
Firstly, the read felt a bit like a slog at times - there was so many bits of unnecessary detail packed in about meal times and nights out and the school run that I honestly didn't care about and did nothing to further the plot. It even got to the point where I thought the hamster and its cage might have had something to do with the murder as it was described so many times throughout the story. The character of Mabel (Neve's teenage daughter) also really annoyed me and I don't understand why she was given the free rein that she was to be such a horrible individual! To be honest I had zero compassion for all the characters really - I didn't even really like Neve. I also found the story to be a little unrealistic in certain places - surely CCTV or witnesses would have placed Neve near the flat at the time of the murder or even just all of the other times that she visited the flat to have an affair? Also covering up all trace evidence of you at a murder scene when it's somewhere you have spent a lot of time is surely a lot more difficult than just a bit of bleach and a wash cycle! The end reveal also felt very unrealistic and I didn't understand the motivation that the perpetrator had to commit the murder in the first place.
Overall The Lying Room was a great concept but on the whole fell very flat for me. Thank you to NetGalley & Simon & Schuster UK for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
