Book info

• Title Here She Lies
• Author Kate Pepper
• Year 2005
• Genre Thriller

After discovering an email revealing her husband's infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, Annie takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and Julie soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything comes undone. Her credit cards are stolen just a she's arrested for grand larceny. The police realize she is the victim of identity theft, but she has yet to understand the true scale of the crime. And when Annie turns to Julie for help, she finds that her twin sister has disappeared... along with her baby. Now with her daughter--and her own life--on the line, Annie is going to fight for what is hers.

Thoughts

Picked this one up in a Humble Bundle and although it got off to a really slow start, the first few chapters were so intriguing that I had to keep reading. It gradually picked up the pace and ended up being a pretty good page turner. Showing off the really awful side of identity theft, it is one of those that makes you sit up and take notice and ponder if this could happen to you.

I did think the double ending was a bit confusing. I didn’t think the extra twist was necessary, and although I’ve read the last bit twice, I’m still not sure why the characters would have done what they did. It didn’t quite make sense. I was also a bit bored by the constant talk of nursing, almost every other sentence contained a reference to it.

Two small complaints though, in what was a very readable and intriguing book.

Rating: 3 / 5