Book Review: Don’t Believe Her by Nicola Sanders

4⭐
Genre ~ psychological thriller
Setting ~ England
Publication date ~ book ~ September 3, 2024, audio ~ October 15, 2024
Publisher ~ Dreamscape Media
Est Page Count ~ 302 (p+ 56 chapters)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 59 minutes
Narrator ~ Jodie Harris
POV ~ dual 1st, present tense
Featuring ~ missing person

My review:

Ellie’s best friend, Carla, has been missing for 12 years. Now she’s engaged to Carla’s brother, Nick, and thrilled when she learns Carla is finally coming home. But she starts to have doubts that this is really Carla. Who is this woman then and where is Carla?

Ellie is finding it hard to convince everyone this is not Carla. Carla is working on discrediting Ellie at every chance she gets. I was really believing Ellie myself, but then Carla was really making her sound unreliable, so I didn’t know who to believe. I like when thrillers mess with me like that.

Overall, the plot is not necessarily new, but it was fast paced and I really liked the ending that took me by surprise.

Side note ~ may I ask what was with all of the tongue clicking? Is that something one does and talks about in England because I’ve never heard it in the US?

Narration notes:
She did a pretty good job.

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Book blurb:

Everyone believes her. Except you.

My life has never been better. I have a beautiful little girl, and I am engaged to be married to the man I’ve had a crush on since I can remember.

So when Nick, my handsome fiancé, announces that his sister Carla is finally coming home, it’s truly the icing on the cake.

Carla was my best friend growing up until she ran away at sixteen. That was twelve years ago, and no one has seen her since.

Everyone is ecstatic about Carla’s return. But as I spend more time with her, I can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Her behaviour is a little off, her childhood memories don’t align with mine, and she’s oddly evasive about her lost years.

But no one will listen to my concerns — not Nick, not Carla’s mother, Marjorie, not even our old friends. They all say I’m imagining things.

But I can tell something is wrong. And before long, I know without a shadow of a doubt…

It’s not her.

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