Book Review: Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear

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In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family’s past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance

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Synopsis:



Your father is a liar. But is he a killer? 


Even liars tell the truth . . . sometimes.


Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she’s never been able to banish these ghosts. When she’s called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn’t get out much, has been found strangled.

Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice’s husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for Cat—her family met Maryanne while on holiday, right before she vanished. Though she was only a child, Cat knew that her charming but dissolute father wasn’t telling the truth when he denied knowing anything about Maryanne or her disappearance. Did her father do something to the teenage girl all those years ago? Could he have harmed Alice now? And how can you trust a liar even if he might be telling the truth?

Determined to close the two cases, Cat rushes headlong into the investigation, crossing ethical lines and trampling professional codes. But in looking into the past, she might not like what she finds. . . .


Review:

WOW, this is the quintessential Summer read! It has everything- murder, thrills, suspense, and family dysfunction (WAY dysfunction!). You will NOT be able to put this book down-it's a new category of procedural! Cat is like any of us- afraid of what she might find out as her case leads back into her own personal history, as she starts second guessing  what she thought she knew about her father, and not trusting her instincts (always a bad situation for a police officer). You may think you know the answer to the riddle, but the ending might just surprise you! Don't pack this one unless you KNOW you have time to finish it! you'll be stunned that this is a debut novel too, and like me, be looking forward to more from Caz!


About the Author:

Caz Frear grew up in Coventry, England, and spent her teenage years dreaming of moving to London and writing a novel. After fulfilling her first dream, it wasn’t until she moved back to Coventry thirteen years later that the second finally came true. She has a degree in History & Politics, and when she’s not agonizing over snappy dialogue or incisive prose, she can be found shouting at Arsenal football matches or holding court in the pub on topics she knows nothing about. Sweet Little Lies is her first novel.

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