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Review - Every Last Lie, Mary Kubica

Reviewed By
Andrea Thompson

Your reviewer is new to this (incredibly popular) author so it was a reading requirement to find out (reasonably quickly) why it is that author Mary Kubica is in the ‘must read’ stable of so many crime and mystery readers.  It didn’t take long. 

EVERY LAST LIE is an immersive book of how far into discovery one determined mother is prepared to go in order to get to the truth and do the right thing by her family.  Told by both Nick and Clara, it almost tells the story of two different couples, such is the variance in perspective from both husband and wife.  Clara, as a new mother and now widow, is slogging through the worst time of her life in the present and Nick’s life is quickly unravelling in the days up to his death. 

Kubica cleverly brings Clara to the brink of discovery then introduces doubt, never relenting in the sense that Clara is getting closer to real harm herself.  It doesn’t take too long to be completely hooked and EVERY LAST LIE adds weight to each page as Clara struggles to come out from under what she realizes was her own ignorance – she simply did not know what had been happening in the life of her own husband. 

BOOK DETAILS
BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781489230553
Year of Publication
BLURB

Clara has hit rock bottom.  Dealing with a newborn, a demanding pre-schooler, ageing parents and money struggles is hard enough and Clara is having to face all of it on her own.  Clara’s husband Nick has been killed in a car accident and there doesn’t seem to be anyone other than Clara concerned about finding out exactly how it all happened.  True, Nick could be impatient behind the wheel.  Also that Nick had been going through some business troubles – he owned his own surgery and it had been a big financial risk for him to branch out into private practice.   Clara is certain however that Nick was not the only driver involved in the crash.

In the family car being driven back from her dancing class by her father that day was their daughter Maisie.  Maisie isn’t telling what she saw, but little by little is revealing her new fears to her mother.  Clara becomes more convinced that Nick was driven off the road, and her own investigations make clear to her that the most likely suspects are known to the family. Undeterred by the lack of useful assistance from the police, Clara pushes on through crushing maternal exhaustion to find out why it is that someone thought her loving husband Nick needed to be killed.

Review Review - Every Last Lie, Mary Kubica
Andrea Thompson
Saturday, June 24, 2017

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