THE LIES I TOLDΒ written by Mary Burton is a psychological suspense that is such a page turner you will not want to put it down. In one weekend this novel had me soaked up into its pages as I had to keep reading to get to the end. This one did not disappoint with the storyline, the characters and the level of suspense! Even down to the ending will keep you in awe. This main character, Marisa, deals with loss of memory which leaves you wondering as the character tries to make connections if you can believe what you read. You keep waiting for the twist and turns and when they come they were not what was expected.Β
Marisa and her twin Clare were sixteen when Clare was found in Virginia in the James River dead. The killer was never found and for fourteen years Marisa had to live with not knowing what happened and feeling like there is something that she cannot put her fingerΒ on that is leaving it all unsettled. Then she survives a car crash that has left her with ten days of no recollection of memory for that time. To make things worse, she does not have her phone and there are people that she meets that leave her wondering if she knew them before or not. As she tries to put pieces together from her photography of pictures she has taken and sold to pieces of memory that flash her and there. Then there are her instincts as well, and she needs to put it all together before it is too late and she is a victim herself.Β
I love novels like this that deal with memory loss because as frightening as it is, it also leaves you second guessing where the story may go. LeavingΒ you to wonder if you can believe what you are reading or is it just another ploy the author uses to throw you off. This is the best suspense that an author can add and I love it. Mary Burton gives nothing away in her writing and THE LIES I TOLD is an amazing read. This is the first novel I have read by Burton and you better believe it will not be the last. Burton is great with writing a novel that keeps thinking about it days later.
Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James River. No arrests were made. Fourteen years later, Marisa’s friends and dedicated career as a photographer help her to cope with the open wound of the past. But Marisa still feels the hurt—and the unsolved murder isn’t the only thing haunting her.
A recent car crash has erased ten days of Marisa’s memories—a black hole leading up to the accident that’s left her disoriented. Every text and phone call from that crucial missing time has vanished, along with her phone. A photograph she took of the river has disappeared. A new neighbor Marisa believes she knows introduces himself as if he were a stranger. And there’s the growing fear that her near-fatal accident was no accident at all. As dreams of Clare and nightmares of the crash begin to converge, so do two disturbing puzzles fourteen years apart.
Putting the pieces together could be fatal. As she struggles to remember everything, Marisa closes in on a killer—without realizing that he’s already closed in on her.
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