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Let Me Lie

by Clare Mackintosh · 2018

The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before.… more

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We can't change the past...We can only change the way we feel about it, and the way it affects our future.
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I believe people walk into your life at precisely the right moment for you,
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People liked boxes, Murray had concluded. You were ill or you were well. Mad or sane. Sarah’s problem was that she climbed in and out of a box, and people didn’t know how to deal with that.
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Life, changing with a single word. A single lie.
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We are programmed to care long after we need to.
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Pretend you're okay, and you'll feel okay. Before too long you really will be okay.
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Pretend you’re okay, and you’ll feel okay. Before too long you really will be okay.
No one’s proud of a failed marriage. No one’s proud of being a victim.
You never know what goes on behind closed doors.
if something smelled like a fish and tasted like a fish, it was almost certainly a fish. Even if it didn’t look like one.
I would like to live the rest of my life knowing exactly what is happening each hour, each day.
No one wants their parents to separate, but even a child can learn to understand it's not the end of the world.
But that night, I felt impetuous. Life was too short not to grab it by the horns.

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The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong.

One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since.

Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to question her parents’ deaths. But by digging up their past, she’ll put her future in danger. Sometimes it’s safer to let things lie…

The stunning, twisty new psychological thriller from number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go and I See You.

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First published
2018
Goodreads rating
3.80 (45k ratings)

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