You Can Trust Me
A Novel
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4.7 • 7 Ratings
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
From Sophie McKenzie, bestselling and award-winning author of Girl, Missing and Sister, Missing
On a quiet, sunny Sunday morning, Livy arrives at her best friend Julia's apartment for a lunch date only to find her dead. Though all the evidence supports it, Livy cannot accept the official ruling of suicide; the Julia she remembers was loud, inappropriate, joyful, outrageous and loving, not depressed. The suspicious circumstances cause Livy to dig further, and she is suddenly forced to confront a horrifying possibility: that Julia was murdered, by the same man who killed Livy's sister, Kara, eighteen years ago.
Desperate to understand the tragedies of her past and hold her unraveling life together, Livy throws herself into the search for Kara and Julia's killer, who she now believes is someone close to her family. But if that is true, can she still trust anyone? Damien, the man Julia was secretly dating? Leo, her husband's boss and a close family friend? His son Paul, her husband's best mate since college? Or even Will, her own dear husband, who has betrayed her perhaps one time too many?
And when Livy finally faces her sister's killer, and he traps her with one horrible, impossible choice, she must finally decide: is she strong enough to trust herself?
Get lost in the dark, gripping pages of You Can Trust Me.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Exeter, England, this psychological thriller from British author McKenzie (Close My Eyes) starts out strong, but too many unlikely situations dilute the plot's impact. Livy Jackson is devastated when she finds Julia Dryden, her eldest child's godmother, dead in her friend's apartment. The two women became close 18 years earlier, following the murder of Livy's sister, Kara Small, when Kara was a college student. The police rule Julia's death a suicide, which her estranged mother and her twin brother, Robbie, easily accept. Livy's doubts that her flamboyant, energetic friend would take her own life are reinforced when she's contacted by Julia's boyfriend, Damian Burton, who claims that Julia finally discovered the identity of Kara's murderer. Livy develops an unlikely friendship with Damian, whom she meets after Julia's funeral. Meanwhile, every man in Livy's life, including her husband, Will, who has a history of infidelity, seems a potential killer. A weak denouement doesn't help.
