I Let You Go: The Richard & Judy Bestseller

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The story ends with a tense encounter on the Welsh headlands, in which Jenna fights for her life and succeeds in pushing Ian off a cliff. Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of New York Times bestseller I LET YOU GO, and Sunday Times bestsellers I SEE YOU, LET ME LIE, AFTER THE END, HOSTAGE and THE LAST PARTY Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, and have spent a combined total of 64 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. I should preface this by saying I went into reading I Let You Go knowing very little about the plot except the major event that happens at the very beginning.

I often wonder if Gillian Flynn is excited to see so many comparisons to her work, so many people trying to emulate that shock value or if she feels that most don’t live up to the epic twist that made Gone Girl so special, like I do. As a thank you, when you sign up, I'll also send you my personal reading list: fifty books I loved, that you might love too. Other than that, I was impressed with this debut thriller, which lures you in with a heart wrenching situation, quietly and slowly, but despite the low key pacing, the mystery deepens as you go along, becoming more curious and puzzling, and the last quarter of the book was absolutely riveting with one huge, shocking gut punch you will not see coming, which also comes with a few aftershocks. Other positives included an interesting side story involving Ray’s family life, which held my interest, though I wasn’t certain I totally bought into a situation with his young son.The plot wasn't really exciting and then they were other small reveals throughout the story which were so predictable or just unnecessary, like the bit where it turns out Jacob was Ian's son just seemed so pointless and was only thrown in for shock value. That same year, the French translation won Best International Novel at the Cognac Festival Prix du Polar Awards. We did bring him in for questioning, but we had nothing to charge him with, so we had to let him go. The biggest plot twist in the book is that Jenna is not, after all, Jacob’s mother—she is the murderer. But her grief isn’t going to stay in the past for long… THAT IS ALL I CAN TELL YOU without spoilers.

It won Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016, beating J K Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. I could feel myself tensing as soon as I realized he was speaking and I found his matter-of-a-fact retelling of horrible physical and mental abuse off putting. The detectives were so boring, I hated when it switched back to Ray, I much preferred Jenna's narrative. Feeling lost she finds her way to a small Welsh community where she attempts to pick up the pieces and start anew.

With that said, the ongoing graphic descriptions of the abuse he inflicted took something away from this story. A distracted mother follows behind her five year old son after picking him up from school on a rainy afternoon.

The gripping, heart-stopping story unfolds from different perspectives, revealing varying pieces of the puzzle until suddenly I saw the big picture and it was nothing I envisioned. She also gets shunned from her new community and has uncomfortable experiences with protestors at court. Slowly, the two storylines begin to merge and what is revealed projects the narrative into the stratosphere. Ray - the DI for the CID team is trying to juggle his workload with his family life, and it is proving difficult.Perfect for readers of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train and fans of TV dramas like The Missing, lose yourself in I Let You Go, the tense, twisty, emotionally compelling psychological thriller that everyone is talking about.