The Woman Who Lied: The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller from the author of THE COUPLE AT NO 9

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This atmospheric thriller about the mysterious disappearance of three girls in a 20-year-old car crash instantly lured me into the storyline. I think the premise of this one was so good and I think it had so much potential to be really great however I think what let it down for me was maybe the pacing, the last twenty five percent felt quite rushed and some of the twists and turns just felt so rushed that it left me feeling as though they must have been an afterthought. The thing that I normally like about Claire Douglas' writing is that its at times antagonising slow filling you with details for it all to come together in the end however the end just didnt deliver in that way for me and left me wanting more.

It’s 20 years on and as the anniversary of the girls who disappeared approaches, Jenna, a BBC podcaster, travels to the area to investigate. The story is told in dual narratives by Olivia and Jenna and its interspersed with a Thailand timeline. Emilia Ward lives quietly in suburban London with her husband and two children. Just an ordinary wife and mother. But also a bestselling crime writer. When she starts writing her tenth Detective Miranda Moody novel, however, life takes a frightening turn: an incident straight out of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, she thinks. Until it happens again. Then someone she knows dies exactly like a victim in the book she’s still writing . . . I am a huge fan of author Claire Douglas and even though this was not my favorite "Claire" book, I will be looking forward to listening to the author's upcoming releases. When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body. Two bodies, in fact.I loved the different sides to this story and the extracts from Emilia’s book left me feeling as if I was reading two stories at the same time. This book was clever and it kept me curious right to the end. One more puzzling happening in the idyllic area is the Olivia Rutherford case. Twenty years ago, she and her three girlfriends were driving home from a nearby nightclub along the notorious road only to find themselves in a horrendous car accident. But when Olivia regained consciousness, she found not three injured friends, but an empty car. Naturally, the case was instantly seen as just another strange event linked to the otherworldly Devil’s Corridor by the townspeople and, sadly, nothing was ever learned about what really happened. It’s as if the girls just disappeared into thin air. Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review. A tightly plotted, dazzling thriller, filled with Claire Douglas's trademark suspense. An up-all-night read' LUCY CLARKE Emilia Ward lives very quietly in a London suburb with her husband and two children. You'd never guess that she's the author of the Detective Miranda Moody books. While she's writing the tenth in series, something happens which mirrors a crime in a previous book and unsettles her, but she manages to shrug it off as coincidence. However, when someone dies in the exact same mannner as in the book she's currently writing, it's obvious that there's more going on. Who could know what Emilia's writing - and is her family in danger?

Emilia is a successful novelist, having just submitted her tenth book in a series. She lives with her daughter, second husband Eliott and son in her five bedroomed house in a London suburb. She is content with her life and proud of her work and family, even though she is hiding a secret about her new novel….. her life starts to unravel after a couple of mysterious happenings, which Emilia comes to realise are recreating events from her books. Creepy and unwanted as these things are, Emilia is more concerned that the conclusion of her new book has the death of her popular main character - meaning the culmination may mean the same for Emilia. A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls.In 1998 Olivia Rutherford is driving her three friends home from a night out, the weather is bad and she grows more tense as she drives down Devils Corridor leading to Stafferbury in Wiltshire. Suddenly a man appears in the middle of the road, she’s swerves but unfortunately crashes. When she regains consciousness she realises her friends have disappeared. Where are they and who is the mysterious man? I did like the dual timeline of the past and present, it is one of my favourite types of books to read. There were many excellent characters in the book and you never really know who exactly you can trust. The was such a spooky element in the plot, perfect for this time of year. Lots of maybe supernatural and/or paranormal elements to keep you entertained. Emilia Ward is excited about the book she just finished writing. She has already published nine books in the series and she is happy that the new book is the last in the series. But when strange things start happening, she realises that she might have a stalker, someone is re-creating scenes from her books. However, when something is taken from her unpublished manuscript, she immediately knows that whoever is behind the pranks is someone close to her. Who would want to terrorise her, and who could be capable of murder? The author, Claire Douglas, has masterfully blended the suspense with a great cast of characters and tension in every line. The Woman Who Lied is cleverly written, and the plot line kept me guessing until the end. I was desperate to figure out who was the person behind the terror, and my guess was completely wrong. Twenty years later it’s the anniversary of the accident and the disappearance of the three girls when podcaster Jenna arrives from the BBC to the village to investigate and found out what happened to the girls. But she is not welcomed with open arms and the villagers don’t really want her there. Weird things start to happen, and she get threatened and told her to go home. Why won’t they want her to find out the truth about that day?

This is only my second book by Claire Douglas but I feel like I’ve been reading her books forever. Her outstanding writing style flows seamlessly and kept me hungry for more. Jess and Heather were once best friends – until the night Heather’s sister Flora vanished. The night that lies tore their friendship apart. Love this self-aware statement in a book that I still expected to be tied up neatly with a bow -- and it was. . .I listened to the audiobook read by Claire Corbett and Joanne Froggatt and both narrators did an over-the-top job with the narration. Secrets never stay buried and they become more unmanageable the longer we cover them up. There is always someone prepared to expose them. Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out. Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn’t returned. Everywhere she turns are ghosts from her past. The same old faces and familiar haunts of her youth. But if someone knows what really happened to Sophie that night then now’s the time to find out – isn’t it? However, I really like what Claire Douglas has tried to do here, the premise is clever, but it’s not quite as well executed as her other books in my opinion.