Published by HarperCollins
Publication Date 16th September 2021
Genre: Crime/psychological fiction
Book Description:
High-flying lawyer Jessica Wells has it all. A successful career, loving husband Tom and a family she adores. But one case – and one client – will put all that at risk.
Edward Blake. An ordinary life turned upside down – or a man who quietly watched television while his wife was murdered upstairs? With more questions than answers and a case too knotted to unravel, Jessica suspects he’s protecting someone.
Then she comes home one day and her husband utters the words no one ever wants to hear. Sit down … I have something to tell you
Now Jessica must fight not only for the man she defends, but for the man she thought she trusted with her life – her husband.
My Thoughts:
My son very kindly went to the local supermarket and grabbed me a copy of this to accompany me on my sick bed recently (nothing serious, just enough to stop me going to work, stay home and annoy my other half with an extremely irritating cough). Having read reviews I figured it would keep me entertained while not being too taxing.
The blurb describes two high-flying professional lawyers who are going through a difficult patch in their lives when suddenly the husband makes the statement "I have something to tell you". I was expecting a big bombshell announcement and some great High Court-worthy arguments in the ensuing fall-out (considering their jobs) but it turned out to be a long-winded experiment in subject avoidance as the two of them used work, kids and anything else they could think of to put off having The Conversation. I found the accompanying crime story in which wife Jessica 'Jay' Wells was defending a charming alleged murderer rather predictable and that too fell quite flat. All the alternative perpetrators who were put forward as the actual killer were fairly obvious red herrings in various ways.
The title of the book - which led me to my purchase - led me to believe the main storyline would be predominantly the problems within the lawyers' marriage and how they dealt with them however Jay's defence of Edward Blake seemed to take over and the relationship thread which I felt should have been the feature of the book kind of dwindled into an annoying background feature in Jay's life while she untangled the threads of Edward's case.
Maybe if the book had a different title I might have enjoyed it more but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting from either the blurb or the title. Perhaps if you're going to read this one go in with less expectations of it being weighted towards the lawyers' marriage and with more of an open mind, you might have a different outlook but sadly it didn't really tick any of the boxes it was aiming for in my opinion.
About the Author:
Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of over forty books across the genres of family drama, thriller, suspense and crime. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol during the 1960s. Following periods of living in Los Angeles and the South of France, she currently lives in Gloucestershire with her husband James, stepsons Michael and Luke, and mischievous dogs Coco and Lulu.
To find out more about Susan Lewis:
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