It’s release day for Tell Me A Secret by Samantha Hayes and I’m delighted to be able to bring you my review. I read this book at the start of May after receiving an advanced copy from her publishers, Bookouture, via NetGalley. Below you will find the book cover and description, followed by my review and buy link.

Tell Me A Secret by Samantha Hayes

Tell her all your secrets and she’ll tell you all her lies…

Everything in Lorna’s life runs like clockwork, from her 6 a.m. morning run to the strict 60-minute counselling sessions she gives. It’s the only way she can deal with the terrible secret she carries.

When a new client arrives for his first appointment, Lorna feels her perfect life unravel in a matter of seconds. It’s Andrew, the man she’s spent the last year desperately trying to forget. It seems he can’t forget her either…

Against her better judgement, she anonymously contacts him on a dating site. Messaging him could mean the end of her marriage and her career, but she needs to know if his motives are genuine.

When Andrew is found dead in his home, grief quickly turns to fear when messages from him continue to arrive on Lorna’s phone. Somebody knows her secret and wants to use it to destroy everything she has.

Will she risk her family and her sanity to keep her secret? Will she risk her life…?

If you love twisty psychological thrillers that get under your skin, like The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go or anything by Louise Jensen, you’ll be utterly blown away by the jaw-dropping lies in Tell Me a Secret.

My Review of Tell Me A Secret

Tell Me A Secret by Samantha Hayes gets five stars from me. This is a great book with a great story.

Lorna is the main character. She’s a psychotherapist, married to Mark, with a stepson Jack, and a daughter Freya. When Andrew, the man she had an affair with the year previous shows up, things take a dramatic twist. Lorna loves Andrew but feels guilty because she has a great marriage and life.

The story unfolds as we get to know more about Lorna and her need for control and schedule in her life. She’s unstable and there’s always something underlying that we don’t get to see until the end of the book. Her diary entries shed some light on her frame of mind and her affair with Andrew.

We also get a number of chapters from another character called Nikki, but we don’t find out who Nikki really is until the very end.

The ending was a total surprise and I really wasn’t expecting it, but somehow it ties everything together and makes sense.

The writing is excellent, the characters are well formed and there is plenty to love in this book. I read it in a couple of days because I was engrossed in the story and wanted to know what was going to happen. It keeps you on edge, trying to guess what is going to happen next. There’s something for everyone in this book, mystery, intrigue, romance, and more. You never quite know what is going to happen next.

This was a definite five star read for me and I can’t wait to read more from this author. I’m so grateful to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book and can highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good psychological thriller.

Tell Me A Secret is available no in ebook from Amazon and all other retailers.

Until next time,

Keep reading and writing,

Amanda