Book Synopsis:
No one deserves to be taken before their time. Do they?
Joe McKee – pillar of the Derry community – is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon.
But grief is the last thing that Joe’s daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe – the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything but.
As the mourners gather, the police do too, with doubt being cast over whether Joe’s death was due to natural causes. Because the lies that Joe told won’t be taken to the grave after all – and the truth gives his daughters the best possible motive for killing him…
A gripping suspense novel about deadly secrets and lies. The perfect read for fans of Clare Mackintosh.
The Liar’s Daughter is available in ebook and paperback now. The ebook is currently only 99p. You can purchase a copy of both using the link below.
My Review:
The Liar’s Daughter is a powerful, emotional thriller which has stayed with me long after reading.
I have to admit I wasn’t expecting this to be as much of an emotional read as it was. The author has written about a distressing subject with compassion without ever over dramatising things. Some of the scenes were really heartbreaking and very poignant which made them hard to read at times.
This was a bit if a slow build though there was enough mystery and intrigue to want me to keep reading. I was very glad I did as the pace soon picked up and the many twists kept me firmly gripped. I liked how the author kept me guessing until the end, where the huge twist had me gasping in shock which I always love!
Huge thanks to Sanjana from Avon for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book. If you like gripping, haunting thrillers then you’ll love this book.
About The Author:
Claire Allan is a Northern Irish author who lives in Derry~Londonderry.
She worked as a staff reporter for the Derry Journal for 17 years, covering a wide array of stories from court sessions, to the Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday, health and education and human interest features.
She wrote her first novel in 2006, to mark her 30th birthday and it (Rainy Days and Tuesdays) was subsequently published and became an instant bestseller in 2007.
Claire wrote seven further women’s fiction novels between 2007 and 2015. In 2016 (when she turned 40) she decided to change genre and try her had at domestic noir. Her first domestic noir novel, Her Name Was Rose was published by Avon/ HarperCollins in 2018 and became a bestseller in the UK, Canada, Australia and was a USA Today bestseller.
It was subsequently nominated in the Dead Good Reader Awards in 2019.
Claire has followed up on the success of Her Name Was Rose with Apple of My Eye and Forget Me Not.
Her next novel, The Liar’s Daughter, will be published in 2020.
She is working on a fifth psychological thriller at present.
Claire still lives in Derry with her husband, two children, two cats and a very spoiled puppy.
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