#BlogTour ‘His And Hers’ by Alice Feeney

About the book…

If there are two sides to every story, someone is always lying…

Jack: Three words to describe my wife: Beautiful. Ambitious. Unforgiving.
Anna: I only need one word to describe my husband: Liar.

When a woman is murdered in Blackdown village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Anna’s ex-husband, DCI Jack Harper, is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.

Someone is lying, and some secrets are worth killing to keep.

Hugest thanks to HQ books for letting me read ‘‘His And Hers’, and for my gifted paperback review copy-this was a no-brainer after her last thriller, ‘I Know Who You Are’, left me breathless.

Anna and Jack tell the story of the woman found in the woods in alternating chapters, punctuated by the italicised thoughts of the killer.

Tiny clues are dripped through the narratives so you feel, as the reader, that you are solving this puzzling disappearance, and death, at the same time as Jack and Anna are. Their fraught relationship and split is gradually revealed, adding layers of nuance and tragedy on top of the past which is dragged kicking and screaming into the light by this murder.

Both are suspects, for various reasons, and yet both are trying to desperately solve the murder-one because of guilt and the other because their professional career depends upon it.

The way that events of the past twist and turn, at the same time as hastily unravelling, provides the reader not with merely an engaging mystery, it focuses on how an individual deals with trauma, grief and death in so many different ways. The impact on the rest of your lives by the calculated acts of another is heartbreaking and vividly rendered-your emotions fly back and forth from anger to horror as the true weight of Jack and Anna’s burdens are laid bare….

As a thriller, this is definitely one that keeps you reading past your bedtime-that alone would be enough. But the added mystery of which one-if indeed, either is-lying, really deconstructs the trope of an unreliable narrator , re-assembling it in Alice Feeney’s distinctive style.

It was a huge pleasure to read ‘His & Hers’, it is definitely a book I would recommend picking up!

About the author…

Alice Feeney is an author and former BBC journalist. Her debut novel, ‘Sometimes I lie’, was a New York Times and international bestseller. It has been translated into over twenty languages, and is being made into a TV series by Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros. starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Alice has lived in London and Sydney and has now settled in the Surrey countryside, where she lives with her husband and dog. His & Hers is being published around the world in 2020.

Links-https://www.alicefeeney.com/

Twitter @aliceinwriterland @HQStories