Trust Me When I Lie
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3.6
Benjamin Stevenson
"An outstanding debut—confident, compelling, with a surprise around every corner."—Jane Harper, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect, a thrilling mystery that proves the only difference between the hero of a story and the villain is your perspective.Producer Jack Quick knows how to frame a story so the murder mystery makes an impact. So says the subject of Jack's new true crime docuseries, Curtis Wade, who was convicted for killing a young woman four years ago. In the eyes of Jack's viewers, flimsy evidence and police bias sent an innocent man to jail...but off-screen, Jack himself has doubts. Curtis could be a murderer.But when the series finale is wildly successful, a retrial sees Curtis walk free. And then another victim turns up dead.To set things right, Jack goes back to the sleepy vineyard town where it all began, bent on discovering what really happened. Because behind the many stories he tells, the truth is Jack's last chance. He may have sprung a killer from jail, but he's also the one that can send him back.A novel examining the darkness that lurks beneath the stories we tell ourselves, Trust Me When I Lie is the perfect book for fans of true crime exposés like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and riveting murder mysteries like The Trespasser by Tana French.
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Author
Benjamin Stevenson
Pages
352
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published Date
2019-08-13
ISBN
149269116X 9781492691167
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"This one started out very good to me but I got bored in the middle. Took me forever to finish. Kept putting it down. In the end it was decent. "
AMB
"Jack Quick is the producer of a true crime miniseries that ultimately leads to the retrial and release of Curtis Wade, who spends 4 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering Eliza Dacy. When the body of Alexis , Curtis' attorney, is discovered in similar fashion to that of Eliza's, Jack begins to question if his show set a guilty man free. <br/><br/>Jack, feeling responsible for Alexis' death, sets out with the help of Curtis' sister Lauren to find the truth about who killed Eliza and Alexis. Could Curtis be guilty of both murders? Or is a copycat at work in Alexis' murder and setting up Curtis?<br/><br/>I was intrigued by the plot and how it warns us about how true crime podcasts and shows could be edited for content, interest, and ratings. That we don't know if we are getting the full story. Which is what Jack's editing for his show did. He made the police and prosecution look incompetent and Curtis look innocent. <br/><br/>Jack is a very flawed character. We see the events of his past that still haunt him, and the effects of his battling an eating disorder. We also get to see Jack's motivations in making the show and how he deals with the consequences of his actions. <br/><br/>This twisty mystery kept me guessing and the ending caught me by surprise. I also enjoyed that there were little bits of dark humor here and there. I also enjoyed the setting of Australia's wine country and how it played into the story. A very enjoyable read!<br/><br/>My thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for gifting me with an e-copy in exchange for my honest review."
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Chris Hicks
"I tried so hard to love this book, but I just didn’t. It was slow in my opinion, and constantly was going from flashback to present. A bit confusing for me. "
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