Book Synopsis:
They’re your best friends.
Lucy and her husband do everything with their closest friends Cora and Scott. They’ve even bought a beach house together to enjoy summers with their kids. They’re more than friends: they’re family.
They’re hiding something.
When a colleague passes around photographs from her honeymoon in the Maldives, Lucy is shocked to see Scott in one of the pictures, his arm around another woman.
The truth will change everything.
Then news breaks that the woman from the photograph has mysteriously vanished. Why was Scott there and what is he hiding?
As Lucy looks for answers, her whole life begins to unravel. If the lies start here, where do they end?
EVERYONE IS ALREADY LOVING THE COUPLE IN THE PHOTO . . .
My Review:
The Couple In The Photo is an entertaining, easy read that I raced through in a few days.
The story starts slowly as the author describes the characters lives which helps lull the reader into thinking that everything is just mundane and ordinary. Things soon become very interesting with the discovery of the photo however and my mind was whirling with the possibilities of what it could mean- especially when it’s discovered that the lady in the photo is missing.
I couldn’t decide whether I liked the main character Lucy or not. On one hand I admired her determination to discover the truth but in the other I found her inability to let it go a bit annoying at times. I did feel for her though as it can be awful discovering that a friend isn’t like you thought they were.
The author gradually increases the tension in the book as Lucy discovers more about what happened and there’s some interesting twists that kept my reading. I did guess some of what was going on and guessed who the murderer was fairly early but I felt this didn’t detract from my enjoyment of watching the story unfold and I had to keep reading to discover whether I was right!
Huge thanks to Ollie for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Helen Cooper is a writer of psychological thrillers from Derby, England.
She has taught English and Academic Writing in both Further and Higher Education and was Head of Learning Enhancement at the University of Birmingham. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University and has been published in Writers’ Forum, Mslexia, the Lincolnshire Echo and Derbyshire Life. She was shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Prize in 2014 and came third in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize in 2018. The Downstairs Neighbour is her first novel.
Helen has also co-authored two books on academic writing for university students, ‘Where’s Your Argument?’ and ‘Using Feedback to Boost Your Grades’, published by Macmillan International and written in collaboration with Michael Shoolbred.
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