Everyone Has Secrets – ARC Book Review

How well do you really know the people you love the most?

The leafy village of South Langley is the sort of place where someone might kill to live. The Griffiths family has the best home of all – the climbing ivy framing their double bay windows. You can always spot Eve laughing with her husband and their sixteen-year-old-son. And Eve’s best friend Lisa and her teenage daughter Annie live in a charming cottage right across the street. Everything is perfect… Until one night something unthinkable turns the peaceful neighbourhood upside down.

Annie is found on the tiled floor of Eve’s kitchen struggling to breathe. As the blue flashing lights of police cars shatter the quiet streets, everyone is looking at the Griffiths family for answers.

With Annie’s life hanging in the balance, Eve is determined to find out what happened. But as she gets closer to the truth, she begins to question who she can really trust. Because someone is lying to her – is it her best friend, her husband or her son?

After all, we all have secrets. But how many of us would kill to keep them?

An utterly addictive and totally gripping psychological thriller filled secrets and lies from bestselling author A J McDine. Fans of Freida McFadden, Claire McGowan and Lisa Jewell will be glued until the final page!

This is the second book I have read from AJ McDine–after reading her books, I actually grew to love her books and so glad that I got another chance to read her new release–Everyone Has Secrets.

Eve Griffith and her next door neighbor Lisa are best friends. Eve saw Lisa’s daughter Annie growing up and Annie and Eve’s son Joe are also close to each other. When Joe is holding a party, Annie goes to the party while Eve and Lisa enjoy the night at Lisa’s house. But soon, Eve receives a panic call from Joe–Annie had fainted and is unconscious. When taken to the hospital, Annie is induced into coma and it was later found out that she had taken ecstasy. Now Joe becomes the main suspect–Eve’s relationship with Lisa becomes strained and soon the whole village turns against Eve and her family. Determined to prove Joe’s innocence, Eve start investigating the other people who attended the party, to find out which of then brought ecstasy and gave to Annie.

This was an emotional and at the same time fast paced thriller. The whole story is told in Eve’s POV and I like how Eve as a mother deals with all the drama surrounding in the village and at the same time her quest to prove her son’s innocence. The story is realistic, what with Eve is suspended from the school she was teaching, and her suspicion that her husband Noah might be having an affair with someone. The ending was quiet unexpected and shocking but all the same, Eve and her family ended up leaving the village and moving to a different place to start a new life. The small cliffhanger at the end, was quiet unexpected.

Overall, this psychological thriller is fast paced, unputdownable and page turning that will keep you up all night. Worth five stars.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.