My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow, great read. If you're looking for a psychological thriller with twists upon twists, this is for you. And the twists were believable. I didn't see it coming, but when it was there, I thought..."Oh, yeah, of course..."
I almost had to skip to the end just to know who would still be living at the end since I am prone to drama and nightmares. But I didn't look, and I'm so glad I did not.
Without giving too much away, the character I felt the strongest about began to wear on me and disgust me even. And now, at the end, I'll say that he or she ended up being the most honest character of all. Truly, the ONE person who could see the faults in his/her core. And the one that I felt the most in control? Well, he or she, it turns out simply was not.
The book is so well written - each chapter alternating between one character's "Then" and one character's "Now". Well done!
I give this a 4.5 and feel like I'm shorting the author with the 4 star. Really great.
J. P. Delaney is the pseudonym of a writer who has previously published best-selling fiction under another name.
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Tony Strong was born in 1962 in Uganda, though his parents came back to the UK when he was six weeks old. He read English at Oxford under the playwright and poet Francis Warner and then went on to work as an advertising copywriter at Ogilvy and Mather, an agency which had already bred writers such as Salman Rushdie and Fay Weldon.
Tony Strong has made more than thirty television commercials, including the celebrated BUPA 'You’re Amazing, We Want You To Stay That Way ' campaign, and the American Express campaign. He has won a BAFTA for a campaign aimed at reducing solvent abuse - one of the very few drug abuse campaigns that have ever been shown to have a measurable effect. Tony Strong was recently poached by Abbot Mead Vickers, whose main account is British Telecom. He has published four novels: THE POISON TREE, THE DEATH PIT, THE DECOY and TELL ME LIES. THE DECOY has been bought for film by Twentieth Century Fox for Arnold Kopelson. TELL ME LIES was recently adapted by Granada Television into a series entitled LIE TO ME.
He has also written under several pseudonyms, including Anthony Capella.
Tony Strong also writes under the pseudonym J.P. Delaney.