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The Other Sister by Elle Croft

Published by Orion 

Publication date 24 August 2018 (kindle) & 18 October 2018 (paperback)
352 pages

My thanks for the advance copy to Alainna from Orion Books and Netgalley.
All views are my own and unbiased by the provision of said review copy.

Book Description:

How far would you go...

Gina Mills is desperate to be a newsreader, but her boss - the director of the struggling Channel Eight, won't help.

Walking home one night, Gina stumbles upon a dead body, and after calling the police, she makes the split-second decision to report the murder live.

When questioned by the police, Gina can't remember specific details about her discovery, but these memory gaps are explained away as shock.

...to uncover your family's deadly secret?

But when Gina finds a second body, it's clear she's being targeted. But why?

And how is this connected to the death of Gina's younger sister so many years ago?

Fans of Friend Request by Laura Marshall, Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear, The Mistake by KL Slater, The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland and The Angel by Katerina Diamond will love The Other Sister.

My Review:

In today’s world of social media and the desire to be famous and in the public eye, it is easy to judge Gina by her actions when she discovers the body of a young woman in an alleyway on her way home from a night out.  For most people her actions are questionable, and an online campaign against her is raised. However nobody seems more fazed by events than Gina, and the more questions the police throw at her, the less sure she is of her reasons behind what she did that night.

My suspicions about the people around Gina in both her personal and professional lives were immediately on high alert and I have to admit to almost being on the right track to the conclusion of the story quite early on, however I was only part way there.  There are sufficient red herrings and dead ends over the course of the book to make me doubt myself – especially when Gina stumbles across a second victim only a short while after the first.  My opinion of Gina at various points in the book swung from disgust, to questioning and even sympathy as she desperately tried to work out who would try and implicate her in the crimes – even making her question the loyalty of her family and wonder who she could trust.

I was lucky enough to read and review Elle Croft’s first novel The Guilty Wife back in January and in my opinion her writing has improved so much in this second book which makes things look even more promising for her future work. Definitely a writer to feature on my go-to reading list. 

Grab yourself a copy and see what you think.

About the Author:

Elle Croft was born in South Africa, grew up in Australia and moved to the UK in 2010 after travelling around the world with her husband. She works as a freelance social media specialist and also blogs about travel, food and life in London.