Lies

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Joe has the perfect life a loving wife, and an adorable little boy, but as in all good psychological thrillers things aren’t always as they seem.

He is a wonderful father and loving husband, and in a flash, his life falls apart when he is accused of wrongdoing.lies, and he goes down the rabbit hole trying to uncover just what - if anything - in his life is as he believed it to be. Another major “pro” of LIES comes in the author’s incorporation of very timely elements - namely, social media - into the book’s central mystery. The fabric of our lives can seem so thin when it is suddenly pulled out from under us, never more so than when it has been woven with lies, one overlapping another. It would seem that the trend in writing these days is the unexpected twist, which in effect you know, completely negates the whole unanticipated thing. As Joe fights to prove his innocence, he comes to realize his happily ever after has been built on lies.

Those guys who, on the exterior, are wholly unaffectionate but, on the inside, are a bubbling spring of complex emotions. uses social media all the time, thrillers that effectively remind us just how dangerous social media can be feel uncannily relevant. As Joe confronts Ben, an angry scuffle ensues and results in an unconscious Ben sprawled on the concrete floor and unresponsive. When Jo is driving home with son William and William spots his mothers car going into the carpark of a hotel Jo decides to follow her to see what she's up to. The vast majority of this book is inoffensive if a bit predictable at its worst, binge-worthy and easy to devour at its best.When Joe Lynch stumbles across his wife driving into a hotel carpark while she's supposed to be at work, he's intrigued enough to follow her in.

If you loved the movie Ready or Not or Jessica Knoll’s psychological thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, you’ll love Catherine Steadman’s THE FAMILY GAME. He complains on and on about how trusting he is and how sad for him that everything bad is happening to him and how Mel could be irresistible that so A few of the books on this list I’ve already been lucky enough to read, and the rest of them are all on my personal to-read pile for the weeks ahead—but I’m excited about all of them. Luckily for me, I had the perfect book for the job waiting on my to-read pile: Catherine Steadman’s brand-new release, THE FAMILY GAME.

I also was kinda sick of the author's habit of ending chapters on these soap opera like cliffhangers. Logan does a perfect job of introducing us to likeable characters with enough humour and honest observations to make it engaging and realistic but then cranks up the suspense, tension, complications, revelations and twists to create a gripping, dramatic and exciting ending. I intentionally read a couple of Christmas mysteries during the Christmas season… and I absolutely loved it.

One day on the way home from picking up his son William from school they see his wife’s car turning left ahead of them. With the book’s conclusion, the author seems determined to shock readers at any cost - no matter what has to be sacrificed. Most satisfactory is the role of cellphones in the conclusion for the technology that was being used to ruin his life, saves him. Viewed through this lens, social media really does become quite disturbing; after all, just as Joe can easily be tracked and targeted on his social media accounts, so too could most of us. Taking a little detour at the request of his son, who sees Mommy’s car on the road and wants to follow it, which of course, Joe does.They live in the moment and trust their eyes and ears, what they can see in front of them---I think we can all learn something from that.