What Lies Between Us

 In John Marrs' What Lies Between Us, this thriller is so twisted and creepy on every page from start to finish. For Nina Simmonds, she always wondered what happened to her father when she was a teenager. Her mother Maggie told her lies that he left them and went away. But is that the truth? From there, there was so many secrets between this mother and daughter that stemmed way beyond her turbulent youth. Ever since then, in flashback sequences, we get to learn how deceitful her mother was to her when she was a "wild child" and had gotten herself pregnant twice with the same man who was ten years her senior. That's when they hated each other and the resentment begin to grew and fester like a cancerous cell. Then we return to the present and how they treated each other while they both remained a prisoner in their old family home. Like the old adage of what goes around and comes out with karma, these actions spoke louder than words when Nina imprisoned her own mother in an upstairs bedroom in the same home. Only Nina knows she's there while Maggie harbored secrets of the past herself and what led her doomed fate there and plans to escape. After years of secrets and lies, Nina begins to dig and search for the truth on what happened her then and now when she turns the tables on her mother and turns cold like a trek in the Arctic Circle. Then it spirals out of control when she learns what she's been missing and how she could pay it back when her jealous rage burns like a wildfire until the ultimate climax that would take your breath away on how it would end.

 This was a gripping thriller about how far people would call to seek revenge--even a loved one--to some extent. I did feel sorry for Nina in the beginning on how Maggie lied to her throughout the years and how that tormented her, even if it might be for her best interest at heart. I begin to despise Maggie and then switched gears when I felt the opposite in the second half of the book. That's how intense it can flip your feelings for these two unbelievable characters. I loved the locations in Leiceister and other parts of England, especially this haunted old house they lived in for years and  had endlessly tortured each other.   The theme is to be careful with secrets you keep and the lies you tell when it would bite you in the butt later on.

If you love spine-tingling and gripping thrillers with non-stop action, heart-pounding drama, intense suspense, and sparks of mystery, check out What Lies Between Us today.

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