(12)Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald

Monday, February 17, 2020


Eva Hansen and her mother, Kat, haven't always gotten along. But Eva doesn't know what caused her to run out of her mother's house into the storm and get struck by lightning. All she knows is that she wakes up in the hospital and her mother has been murdered. Not only was she found just blocks from her mother's house, but Eva also keeps having flashbacks that cause her to believe she is the one to kill her mother. And the police think she killed her mother, too. Thankfully she has her fiance, Liam, to look out for her.  But then Eva is going through her mother's things and finds a note to her telling her that she really wasn't Eva's mother and that she is in danger. Eva takes off for London in search of the truth of her past and hopes to get some answers about who killed her mother. Eva finds her father and sister, but she doesn't find all of the answers that she was looking for. Will she find out the truth about what happened that night before the police charge her with murder?

Behind Every Lie was a fast-paced thriller that was full of twists and turns. From the very first page, your heart is racing as Eva is running through the rain. And it doesn't slow down after that. The book has alternate timelines and alternate narrators.  Eva is the present narrator and Kat is the narrator from the past. I really liked Eva, but almost from the first introduction, Liam gave me the heebie-jeebies. The way he acted when Eva didn't put her shoes in the right spot was my first clue that he was a giant jerk. I thought that Eva had serious guts to leave the country in the middle of a murder investigation. I really expected her to be greeted by the cops when she returned back to the states.  I was pretty shocked by one of the twists. Not so much by the "whodunit" reveal. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS

Bottom Line -With her second book, Behind Every Lie, Christina McDonald has proven that she knows how to write an exceptional page-turner.

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