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Believe Me

A Novel

by JP Delaney
Sally Scott
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In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation.
 
“A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review)

A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing like she expected.
 
Claire agrees to become a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers. Hired to entrap straying husbands, she must catch them on tape with their seductive propositions.
 
The rules? Never hit on the mark directly. Make it clear you’re available, but he has to proposition you, not the other way around. The firm is after evidence, not coercion. The innocent have nothing to hide.
 
Then the game changes.
 
When the wife of one of Claire’s targets is violently murdered, the cops are sure the husband is to blame. Desperate to catch him before he kills again, they enlist Claire to lure him into a confession.
 
Claire can do this. She’s brilliant at assuming a voice and an identity. For a woman who’s mastered the art of manipulation, how difficult could it be to tempt a killer into a trap?
 
But who is the decoy . . . and who is the prey?
Read by Sally Scott, with Matt Reeves, Lorelei King, John Chancer, and Eric Meyers

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  • Release date

    July 24, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780525633150
      • File size: 274459 KB
      • Duration: 09:31:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2018
      Delaney—a pseudonym for British adman Tony Strong—follows his debut, 2017’s bestselling The Girl Before, with a thriller undercut by a preposterous premise, cardboard characters, and arbitrary major plot reversals. For starters, readers are asked to buy the NYPD’s exploiting British actress Claire Wright’s lack of a green card to strong-arm her into a lengthy undercover operation designed to trap Patrick Fogler, a Columbia University English professor specializing in Baudelaire, who’s suspected of sadistically murdering several women, including his wealthy wife, Stella, according to scenarios inspired by poems from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal. Once Claire and Patrick embark on their dangerous danse macabre—all the while with Det. Frank Durban and profiler Kathryn Latham listening in—the kinky mind games begin in earnest. Could Claire herself, who briefly met Stella the night she was killed, actually be the investigation’s target? For those willing to completely suspend disbelief, the author produces a bobsled run’s worth of twists. Agent: Caradoc King, United Artists (U.K.).

    • AudioFile Magazine
      "Disturbing" and "confusing" are the words that describe this listener's experience of this audiobook. Claire, a young British actress portrayed by Sally Scott, takes on a job to entrap straying husbands. Using this opportunity to build her acting skills, she switches on an American accent. The result is confusing for the listener as Claire moves from dialogue to thoughts, continually switching accents. At the core is a disturbing story of a serial killer who is acting out, in brutal, graphically described ways, Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal" poems. The story twists and turns, leaving the listener not knowing which characters are reliable and which are not, especially when the twists seem really unbelievable. Overall, this production is disappointing, considering its stellar cast of narrators. E.Q. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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