WOW! What a book! The Perfect Fraud was the perfect thriller! Once I started this book I literally could not put it down, I devoured it in a day and half. These characters 😡😡 let me just say oh did I hate someone. But I totally loved how Ellen wrote this person to be hated!
The Perfect Fraud is a must read! It will grab your attention and you will be done it crazy quick but thinking about it long after you are done!

Description
In this propulsive debut thriller, two women with deep secrets are thrown together by an unexpected meeting that plunges both their lives into chaos. But it’s a sick little girl whose fate hangs in the balance.

Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she’s living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world-class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn’t want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn’t really have “the gift” and hasn’t for a long time. She’s a fraud.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Rena, a young mother, has family issues of her own. She’s divorced and her four-year-old daughter, Stephanie, suffers from mysterious, seemingly incurable stomach problems. No matter how many specialists Rena drags her to, no matter how many mommy-blog posts she makes about her child’s health issues, trying to get help and support from her online community, Stephanie only gets sicker.

When Claire and Rena meet by chance on an airplane, their carefully constructed lives begin to explode. Can these two women help each other and can they help Stephanie before it’s too late?

Wow, this was an excellent book. I had Rena figured out fast. A very sad, chilling, and like a train wreck I had to finish. Just a great book.
Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy.

Loved it! Really hated Rena, although I know we are supposed to. Creepy and sad. Definitely recommend!

The Perfect Fraud is a thriller I immediately figured out, and yet I was compelled to finish it in 24 hrs. I needed to know what would happen to these characters and enjoyed seeing the artifice slowly fall away as the chapters continued. LaCorte does a good job of exploring how childhood trauma can differently impact the psychology of adults and how the identities we present to the world are often not aligned with who we really are internally. Thoughtful and fast read!

This book was an excellent thriller, suspense novel. One that has your mind wondering over and over whose the fraud, and how is she able to pull it off so easily?! It was absolutely creepy, chilling, and heartbreaking in many parts. One I think many thriller and even drama lovers will enjoy. A book that gives you chills, thrills, and a crushed heart that’s sewn back together again, with lots of emotional tears! Highly recommend.
Will make sure the members of chapter chatter pub hear about it!

What a stunning debut thriller! Truly unputdownable.

Claire, a woman who lives her life with her boyfriend, Cal, faking psychic abilities and getting paid for it. She’s at least honest with Cal about being a fraud. That is until she isn’t.

Rena, is the mother of a very sick 4 year old little girl named Stephanie. Stephanie suffers from terrible stomach problems, is in and out of the hospital, and even comes close to death. Rena tries everything to help her daughter, even moving states away to Arizona to take Stephanie to a better doctor. But nothing ever seems to help, no one can figure out what’s wrong with little blue eyed girl.

The two women cross paths on an airplane to Arizona. Claire, on a flight back home from pennsylvania, and Rena and Stephanie, on their way to what they hope are answers and healing for Stephanie, end up sitting next to each other. After some unwaranted chit chat, a sudden feeling and....taste come over Claire. She’s confused, she doesn’t understand. What just happened? What does it mean? And why does the little girl look not only sick, but very, very...scared, haunted....

I tried to add to this description, but it’s so hard without giving things away. I like the suspenseful surprises I discover throughout books. So I try to do my best to save those things for the next reader. This book is filled with twists and turns and is a truly gripping read.

Thank you Netgalley and HarperCollins for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

8 stars needed.. This was a book full of surprises, darkness, truths,, lies, and love. Claire is a fake psychic who works at a shop doing reading but a chance encounter with a strange women and child changes every thing. She starts seeing real truths in her mind and she realizes she actually is not what she thought she was, she starts to remember so many things. She knows her boyfriend is there to stand beside her but will she let him? This book was fantastic. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and write about this book.