The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish

 

Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most extrovert guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour.
 
That’s until Beth announces the creation of a nature trail on a local site that’s been disused for decades and suddenly Alex is a changed man. Now he’s always watching. Questioning. Struggling to hide his dread . . .
 
As the landscapers get to work, a secret threatens to surface from years ago, back in Alex’s twenties when he got entangled with a seductive young woman called Marina, who threw both their lives into turmoil.
 
And who sparked a police hunt for a murder suspect that was never quite what it seemed.
 
It still isn’t.

Louise Candlish is back to play mind games in her latest Psychological thriller The Only Suspect. With the storyline being told through alternating chapters from the past and present by Rick and Alex it keeps the reader on their toes as the scene is set to a murder we know has happened but have no idea who the victim is or the events leading up to it. Jump to the present day the council have given the go ahead for a new nature trail behind Alex’s house but he is anything but thrilled as it seems his past could be coming back to haunt him.

The author has such an incredibly skilled way of planting big clues in plain sight and yet there are still no warning bells that set suspicions off until you have already had your face slapped with a shocking revelation that you had no idea was coming, you then look back to see all the arrows pointing at this and it seems so obvious. THEN you feel like you are in safe territory and that your eyes are well and truly open and BAM she is back to hit you again with another shocker!

This is a highly skilled storyline that covers deception, love. friendships and murder that will have you captivated from start to finish with no safe place to put this book down as you will be questioning if you have missed something! If you’re looking for a totally unpredictable read with well-developed characters and twists and turns at every corner then you can’t go wrong with The Only Suspect.

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