Believe Me: The twisty and addictive thriller from bestselling author of The Girl Before

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This book has one of the most spine chillingly manipulative characters I have ever come across and she is fifteen years old. I didn’t care much for the erotic poetry (which may be because I didn't understand it). However, I still enjoyed the rest of the story, and I have to admit, I did end up Googling to find out more about “Les Fleurs du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire. Claire is an accomplished actress, one of the best in her class. She identifies as an "actress." That is who she is. But, what happens when the line between fantasy and reality blur? What happens when Claire gets too deep in her role? And what happens when Claire loses sight of herself.. When she can no longer tell the difference between fact and fiction? Claire agrees to become a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers. Hired to entrap straying husbands, she must catch them on tape with their seductive propositions. The rules? Never hit on the mark directly. Make it clear you’re available, but he has to proposition you, not the other way around. The firm is after evidence, not coercion. The innocent have nothing to hide. This was a mess. I literally did not believe any semblance of mystery or story this book had to offer. It was so un believably far fetched and unrealistic to the point I was just laughing at the final twist(s) and outcomes.

In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Girl Before,an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. Mir hat das Buch einfach so gar nicht gefallen und ich glaube ich werde auch nichts mehr von diesem Autor lesen. Ich kann dem Buch nur einen Stern geben und frage mich wie so etwas durch gewunken werden konnte... Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.Unfortunately, they have suffered a few miscarriages, and she wonders if the only baby she will successfully carry to term, would be Sky, the baby she relinquished. The book is told from a first person POV as if Claire was speaking directly to the reader. Other parts are written as if they are a screenplay. “Is it just me who does this -who feels they’re constantly watching themselves in the movie of their own life?” It took awhile to get adjusted to, but it does make for a fast read. When one of the firm’s female clients is murdered, the police believe the likely suspect is the husband and enlist Claire’s help to catch him or do they? Are the police really out to nab him or Claire? Are the police who they say they are? Believe Me is intensely cinematic, and will no doubt have the film industry beating a path to Delaney’s door What a wild ride that was! So many twists and turns I had whiplash. This was a Traveling Sisters read and it made for a fun discussion with a lot of speculation as we read.
Claire is an aspiring actress hired by the police to work as a civilian undercover in a sting to catch a suspected serial killer. Or is she? Is she an actress playing a part in her own movie where only she writes the script? Is she unhinged or is this all really happening? Is she the ultimate unreliable narrator or is she just playing a part? Is she the hunted or the hunter? I was never sure. The story kept me off balance and questioning everything.

I really like BELIEVE ME. I was absolutely crazy about the first 2/3 of this addictive story. The plot had me second guessing my way through. Sadly, the last 1/3 just went so overboard it got ridiculous. I have a hard time understanding why the author (actual name: Tony Strong) wants to throw in everything he knows about his subject. It's too much. He overshot that line of believability and my five star rating dropped to a four. Susie has enjoyed a career as a singer and is still experiencing some professional success, but one area of her life that's not successful is her desire to start a family with her husband Gabe. While she's been pregnant many times, the fetus is never viable, leaving them both heartbroken. Everything changes for Susie when out of the blue, she receives a message from the daughter she placed for adoption 15 years ago, and the tone of the message alarms Susie--her precious daughter is not happy. This book not only reminded me in tone of his last book, but had a very similar vibe to it...basically, a SOMEwhat twisted family drama...with heavy emphasis on 'what if this happened to YOUR family'. There's nothing wrong with this in theory, and several other authors have written compelling stories that fit this mold, if you will. I guess what is mind-boggling to me with Delaney is that he was so GOOD at writing the other type of story that I'm not really why he made such a dramatic shift in subject matter and feel. Around us, heads are turning in our direction. But there’s going to be no confrontation, no eruption of New York stress. Already I’m getting to my feet, pulling my bag onto my shoulder. Defusing the drama.

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She gets involved in a very convoluted manner with a professor who is totally into an erotic dead poet's works and it is this professor that Claire needs to ferret out. Along the way there are some pretty intriguing plot twists and everything about both Claire and the professor becomes murky and quite dark. Opps, forgot to mention that the professor's wife was murdered..... But then, this isn’t lying. This is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Which, as you’ll discover, is very different. p 10 A dark and haunting thriller . . . A superb evocation of conflicted emotions, this never lets you guess what’s coming next.” — Daily Mail Nope. Nada... ich muss mir nicht anhören wie ein Mann über sexuellen Missbrauch mit Minderjährigen schreibt, die am Ende für den Täter keine Konsequenzen haben.