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Lie to Me by Jess Ryder

Lie to Me
by
Jess Ryder

We're going to tell our story and then it will all stop and Mummy will be safe. You want Mummy to be safe, don't you?
Three minutes. That's all it takes for Meredith's entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of her four-year-old self with Becca the mother she's never known.

Meredith can't believe what her eyes have seen. Yet what if her memory has locked away the painful reality of her childhood? Can there be any truth in the strange and dangerous story her mother forced her to tell on camera?

The search for answers leads Meredith to Darkwater Pool, the scene of the murder of a young woman, Cara, over 30 years ago.  What could possibly be the link between her mother and the victim?

To find the truth Meredith must search through a past that is not her own.  The problem is, she's not the only one looking...


Meredith thought she knew her childhood, she accepted her mother, Becca, had her own problems, that her mother wasn't like other mothers, and sure that she was her Daddy's little girl. UNTIL...Mere's dad decides it is time to settle into a smaller house, as they are cleaning and packing, Meredith finds a videotape in a box of her toddler clothes.  Her dad warns her that they should just burn the tape and never see what is on it. Meredith finally understands why after she views the tape.

Flooded with questions Meredith begins searching for the answers.  To get to these answers she must first go back to another time.  As she stumbles back she finds that her mother was a witness in a trial. Becca, her mother, had found the body of young Cara at Darkwater Pool. 

Will Meredith's life change forever?  Will the answers around her mother's strange behavior give her closure or just open another life that Meredith might have wished she never stumbled upon.

As Meredith struggles to find the answers we struggle along with her.
I liked the book and the character development. However, I wasn't left with wide open questions or rocked to my core by the reveal of what happened.  It was a quick read as I quickly devoured the pages, the chapters flowed easily between the past and present, with pretty sound character development.  
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my advanced copy for an honest review.

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