Title: Lying in Wait
Author: Liz Nugent
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Mystery
Pages: 310 (Paperback - ARC)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada
Publication date: November 27th, 2018
Synopsis from Lying in Wait's Goodreads page
The last people who expect to be meeting with a drug-addicted prostitute are a respected judge and his reclusive wife. And they certainly don't plan to kill her and bury her in their exquisite suburban garden.
Yet Andrew and Lydia Fitzsimons find themselves in this unfortunate situation.
While Lydia does all she can to protect their innocent son Laurence and their social standing, her husband begins to falls apart.
But Laurence is not as naïve as Lydia thinks. And his obsession with the dead girl's family may be the undoing of his own.
Synopsis from Lying in Wait's Goodreads page
The last people who expect to be meeting with a drug-addicted prostitute are a respected judge and his reclusive wife. And they certainly don't plan to kill her and bury her in their exquisite suburban garden.
Yet Andrew and Lydia Fitzsimons find themselves in this unfortunate situation.
While Lydia does all she can to protect their innocent son Laurence and their social standing, her husband begins to falls apart.
But Laurence is not as naïve as Lydia thinks. And his obsession with the dead girl's family may be the undoing of his own.
THOUGHTS
Thank you so much to Simon & Schuster Canada for giving me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
This is not your typical psychological thriller - the book opens with the death of a character, and the description of who killed her - two of the main characters. You know who killer her throughout the entire book, and it is a description of what happens after the girl gets killed.
Most psychological thrillers are someone stalking/trying to kill someone else, and usually ends with a death, or the entire book is a mystery of who killed someone. This book is different - we already know who killed her, and it's the story of what happens after.
This book is very twisted, which seems to me to be something that Liz Nugent is known for (I've read her other book Unraveling Oliver, my review can be found here, and I found it to be just as twisted, which I also loved). I love how the plots are very dark, twisted, and sinister, and how the characters lean into that.
Her characters are also very dark - they have secret agendas, and their minds are very dark.
Another thing I really liked about this book is how we got to see a lot of flashbacks, and hear a lot about the characters lives in the past; this really helped to see how the characters have changed as well as how they have stayed the same.
Her settings are also perfect - they match the vibes of the books perfectly, and the settings really match up with the story lines. Both of the books that I have read by Liz Nugent have both had very powerful settings, and I found that the plot, characters and the overall story line itself has been impacted by the settings.
Overall - powerful, dark and sinister, this book is a great read for those dark winter nights!
Overall - ★★★★☆
Most psychological thrillers are someone stalking/trying to kill someone else, and usually ends with a death, or the entire book is a mystery of who killed someone. This book is different - we already know who killed her, and it's the story of what happens after.
This book is very twisted, which seems to me to be something that Liz Nugent is known for (I've read her other book Unraveling Oliver, my review can be found here, and I found it to be just as twisted, which I also loved). I love how the plots are very dark, twisted, and sinister, and how the characters lean into that.
Her characters are also very dark - they have secret agendas, and their minds are very dark.
Another thing I really liked about this book is how we got to see a lot of flashbacks, and hear a lot about the characters lives in the past; this really helped to see how the characters have changed as well as how they have stayed the same.
Her settings are also perfect - they match the vibes of the books perfectly, and the settings really match up with the story lines. Both of the books that I have read by Liz Nugent have both had very powerful settings, and I found that the plot, characters and the overall story line itself has been impacted by the settings.
Overall - powerful, dark and sinister, this book is a great read for those dark winter nights!
Overall - ★★★★☆
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