My review: 3.15ā
It seems I am in the minority here because there are so many positive reviews for this one, so don’t listen to me because you might love it. I was looking forward to it because I have enjoyed this authors work in the past, but I just wasn’t feeling this one.
When a younger woman marries a much older man she’s automatically deemed a golddigger and that term only intensifies when the husband is rich and famous. Then he turns up dead…with the wife possibly holding the murder weapon, thus making her the likely suspect. But who is Paris really?
Told in 6 parts with A LOT of backstory throughout the whole book.
I liked Drew and his investigative skills as he worked on his podcast.
I didn’t really care for any of the other characters ~ Paris was blah, Zoe was too much, Elsie seemed like an old hag, Ruby was just the worst or all worstness. Actually, I did like the 4 year old cousin, Carson, and Deborah seemed nice.
I was lucky enough to receive a kindle copy and an audiobook. Quite a long listen at 11 hours and 50 minutes and Carla Vega was a good narrator, but I did prefer reading and not listening.
TW ~ child abuse, sexual abuse, pedophilia
Overall, most of the story was predictable, twists not very twisty and the story dragged at times with repetition. This was not my favorite by Jennifer, but I would read her work again.
*Thanks to St Martin’s Press, MacMillan Audio, the author and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
ā¬ Purchase links ā¬
Hardcover Things We Do in the Dark at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb: Release date ~ July 19, 2022
A brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.
When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom ā covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her ā she knows she’ll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it’s not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it’s only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she’s worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she’s unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris’s secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all.
Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges.
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