How well do you know your spouse? This really forms the central question to Spain’s new mystery, and it’s something you will ask many times as the story unfolds from it’s jaw-dropping opening chapter to the final tying up of threads. If you are looking for a domestic thriller that stands apart from others in the genre by clever layering of multiple elements and by withholding just the right details to keep you guessing, then give this book a go! Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death. December 2016 – Ally Summers, a proctor at Harvard University is worried about Freshman student, Lauren Gregory. She hasn’t been to class in a few days. Jo lives in Dublin with her husband and four young children. In her spare time (she has four children, there is no spare time really) she likes to read. Her favourite authors include Pierre Lemaitre, Jo Nesbo, Liane Moriarty, Fred Vargas and Jodi Picoult. She also watches TV obsessively.

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With Our Blessing, a police procedural featuring Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds, was snapped up by Quercus in 2015. Ten best-selling novels have followed. What an explosive start to a novel with a husband plunging to his death from an apartment building, over four floors down. Although my heart went out to the man’s wife Erin, I was immediately suspicious of this situation, my alarm bells were ringing – loud! I had so many questions in the opening stages of this book and these doubts also continued for the duration of the story. Spain takes a slow drip approach to her novel, gradually dropping clues, revelations and surprising moments for the reader to jostle with. As I worked to solve this puzzle, I thought I had made some important in-roads, but Spain would issue yet another game changing clue that would throw my theories completely into oblivion. She previously worked as a journalist with An Phoblacht and as a Sinn Féin political advisor within the Dáil Éireann– both experiences which have helped her as an author. Lagged is the best online games platform. Challenge your friends to thousands of different games that you can play on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Compete for high scores and achievements as you try to climb to the top of our global points leaderboard.Spain is juggling a number of other screen projects including adapting the novel The Source by Sarah Sultoon, a Scandinavian drama she describes as "a mix between Fargo and Killing Eve" and a show about the 1980s music scene in Sheffield. Five years ago, Erin moved from Ireland to N.Y. after a family tragedy, never expecting to fall in love and remain in the U.S. Now living with her detective husband, Danny, she opens the door to his colleagues one morning, and upon seeing them, he walks out of the French doors of their fourth floor apartment and jumps to his death. Talking of characters as is expected with a Jo Spain novel they are perfect for the story and range from likeable to loathsome Having moved to New York five years ago following a family tragedy, Erin's fortune changed when she met her now husband, police detective Danny.

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Jo thinks up her plots on long runs in the woods. Her husband sleeps with one eye open. (I can see why!) Spain knows how to write a twisty mystery, Inspired by the challenges of facing adversity and tragedy whilst living abroad. Erin as an Irish woman who has escaped a painful past by moving to the US and marrying an American detective. Living in New York, far from Erin’s parents and the family dynamics that have split them apart. Award-winning novelist Jo Spain on new crime thriller The Perfect Lie Jenny Lee chats to hugely successful Dublin crime author Jo Spain about her latest thriller, working with Jane Seymour and politics with a small 'p' I HATE plot devices where the mystery hinges upon the characters withholding information. It is lazy and after having read some stellar psy thrillers in the vein of Gone Girl etc., it feels downright cheap. If you don’t mind that, then by all means this book will appeal to you. It's fascinating to learn about that side of the business. It will help me write in the future as you can write anything, but if you don't have enough budget to film it you are in trouble."She dedicated The Perfect Lie to 'the Irish diaspora, who were far from home when Covid entered our lives'. I always start my books with an idea for a hook. I let this stunning opening mull away in my mind for some time before piecing together all the secrets about her apparently 'perfect' husband. With the hefty word count comes an obvious hefty cast of characters with many likely suspects and red herrings and potential victims but Spain’s characterisation was good enough to cause no confusion with who was who. Erin was a likeable leading lady and I couldn’t help but cheer her on. Karla, her lawyer, was a standout from the supporting characters and I wouldn’t be surprised if she turned up in another of Spain’s books one day. If you can imagine a rollercoaster ride through a hall of mirrors, that was my experience reading The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain. I always read this author on a day I have cleared of everything else, because once I start, there's no separating me from her latest. Overall, The Perfect Lie is an intricate, tortuous, ominous tale by Spain that I absolutely loved and which had just the right amount of twists, turns, and unexpected surprises to keep me entertained, satisfied, and on the edge of my seat from start to finish.