On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river.Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes…A printed pink silky scarf that doesn’t belong to her. She holds it up to her face, breaths in the sweet sickly perfume, it’s scent familiar, and tendrils of fear snake through her body. The scarf is stained with blood.As Maggie rejoins the party and tries to ignore her churning stomach, she pours herself a glass of champagne to toast the man she’s enjoyed decades of happy marriage with. Then she catches a news flash of the local girl’s murder. She stares at the girl with the beautiful face, long ice-blonde hair and, draped loosely around her neck, Maggie recognises it instantly. She’s wearing the scarf.
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Review
When you meet someone, you don’t know them at all, but there is something that makes you want to get to know them better. You like what you see, they become your significant other and you start your life together. You are happy, have a family and years later you are still a couple/ You love them. You trust them, until that day…
You don’t believe they are the same person you have shared so much with. But one big question though: did they really change or are you the one making the wrong conclusions?
When you do the maths and two and two equals 5, there is still a way to rectify everything. When you add two to two and your result suddenly is 731, you have a bigger problem and it’s your responsability (or so you think anyway) to make the problem disappear… Then the solution suddenly presents itself. Even when in doubt, you have to act.. now!
You made the problem go away… right??? Even if your world has collapsed, you have saved others from being hurt, haven’t you?
Well, …
Oh Maggie, Maggie Maggie, you really saved the day or you really messed up. Which one was it? I had apparently more faith than she did ;). It never crossed my mind this person was to blame. I had someone else on my radar and for once it seems I saw through it all. 🙂 Woohoo. LOL
So Dan Riley, if you are looking for nn assistant, you can always mail me. Hahaha 😉
I really enjoyed this book a lot that kept me on my toes. 5 stars
Thank you
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About the author
I was born in Hampshire but grew up in London where I still live today with my two children. I was originally a dancer who re-trained after a ‘disco accident’ in Ibiza to become a journalist – I’ve even won some awards, though I don’t like to talk about them – ha! I’ve been a women’s lifestyle writer for over fifteen years and am the former editor and acting editor of the fabulous J-17 magazine and Smash Hits respectively and have written for all the major glossies including Grazia, Company, Marie Claire and More, where I was their resident tell-it-like-it-is advice columnist – loads of fun! I’ve also written for NME, Loaded and Front magazine (I can be down with the lads too!).During my journalistic career I’ve seen and done some amazing stuff, highlights include becoming a nun (for a day), rally racing with the late, great Colin McRae, bunjee jumping off a 350 ft bridge in designer heels, whiskey tasting for a week in Kentucky (don’t remember much of that) and hanging out with all manor of A-list celebrities (er, Take That and Jordan, anyone?).After I had my son I started to write novels (having children does strange things to a person) and had my first young adult novel, Ibiza Summer, published in 2004. My first adult novel (it is a little racy) Chelsea Wives was published in 2012, followed by Wicked Wives in 2013.When I’m not writing, which isn’t often, I like to hang upside down on a pole – I’m a qualified pole fitness instructor, and drink fancy wine (though not necessarily at the same time, that would be dangerous). I adore creating exciting, three dimensional, glamorous and flawed characters against a backdrop of exotic locations. Revenge, sex, sin, glamour, excess, crime and intrigue is my speciality. My next novel, title to come, promises all the above and more!
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Author Links
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Book Link
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lie-Our-Marriage-psychological-jaw-dropping-ebook/dp/B0BK292F7Y/
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