The Blurb:
One letter a week for fifteen years. 780 identical white envelopes brimming with my sister’s darkest secrets. All the intimate details of a life as different to mine as could possibly be.
I read each letter slowly to make sure I understand it perfectly, one day very soon it will be a matter of life and death…
At the end of each letter, after signing her name, there is always one final sentence:
Don’t forget to burn this letter.
I’ll let you decide if I do…
A jaw-dropping psychological thriller that you will read in one sitting. If you loved dark, twisty thrillers like The Girl on The Train, The Couple Next Door and Friend Request, this unputdownable novel will have your heart racing long after you’ve finished reading.
Secrets Between Us was published by Bookoutre on 14th November 2018.
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My read before this one had a scary supernatural element to it, but I probably found this book more chilling and creepy.
Ellie and Tia are identical twins. Following the death of their father, they've been living separate lives for fifteen years. In fact they haven't even seen each other in all that time. But Ellie writes a letter every single Friday, and Tia gets them every Monday.
When we meet them, Ellie has a successful career, is married to Will, and trying for a baby. Tia is living happily in a residential home for the 'Differently Abled', with a mild learning disability. Everything changes when Tia's home closes and she comes to live with Ellie and Will.
To say much more about the book would give too much away! I loved it. I thought all the characters were interesting and engaging. Everybody is keeping secrets. I felt the most sympathy for Will, but found him a little naive, and he also makes a pretty huge mistake. The dynamic between the twins is interesting, and I found my feelings about each of them changing as the story went on, sometimes cheering one twin on, sometimes rooting for the other. And sometimes being slightly horrified at one or other. The intellectual differences between the two women are implied, rather than laboriously explained. But are these differences as great as we think they are?
The plot is somewhat far fetched, but the writing makes it plausible. I had an idea of what might happen, but there was so much more to it. The relationship between the sisters is difficult throughout and, because of their physical similarities, and one's paranoia, it's unsettling, and maybe a little creepy.
The pace quickens towards the end of the book, and I found the ending really quite chilling. There were questions unanswered and I really wanted to jump forward ten years to see where the story was at then.
This is an unsettling story, and I mean that in the best possible way! It had me on edge a little bit, because there was a sense of foreboding, of something about to happen, and that kept me turning page after page. And I'm still thinking about it after several days. I haven't read any other work by Valerie Keogh, but I will certainly be looking to read more of her books in the future. A fine read.
The Author:
Valerie Keogh grew up reading Agatha Christie so when she started writing it seemed natural to write crime novels. She writes two different series, one based in Ireland featuring Garda Sergeant Mike West and a grittier one based in the UK featuring Nicola Connolly, a serial killer.
The Garda West series: THAT ONE MAY SMILE, CLOSE RANKS, MURDER ON CLARE ISLAND and DEATH IN FOXROCK.
The Hudson and Connolly series: DEADLY SLEEP, TWISTED POWER, BITTER BUSINESS, and WICKED SECRET.
Valerie has also written a stand-alone psychological thriller, Exit Five from Charing Cross.
In March 2018, Valerie signed a two-book contract with the publisher, Bookouture. The first of these, Secrets Between Us, is out now.
Author Social Media Links:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ValerieKeogh1
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