YOU CAN TRUST ME by Sophie McKenzie

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Livy and Will have some problems in their marriage; Will had an affair and lucky Livy gets to meet the ex-mistress at Will’s holiday work party. She’s stressing about it and ignores her best friend Julia’s texts that night.

Livy and Julia have been friends for 18 years, since Livy’s sister Kara was murdered walking home from a college party. They have plans for lunch the next day but when Livy gets there, she finds Julia dead on the sofa. The police rule it a suicide but Livy isn’t buying it.

Then Livy meets Julia’s secret boyfriend, and they team up to try to figure out what really happened. They delve into Julia’s life, and Livy is shocked to learn that Julia was obsessed with Kara’s unresolved murder and had never given up trying to find her killer.

Interspersed throughout the book are memoir type chapters written by the murderer so we can see how he evolves into a serial killer. Almost every person in Julia’s life becomes a suspect at one point or another, but the ending is a bit of a stretch in this suburban UK nightmare.

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4/15 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch

YOU CAN TRUST ME by Sophie McKenzie. St. Martin’s Press (April 14, 2015). ISBN 978-1250033994. 304p.

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