Who is the unreliable narrator? Who is the murderer? And why? This well constructed mystery is told in a series of interviews by a documentary film team working on the story of two men who both fell or were pushed (well, they were pushed) off a cliff on a Mediterranean island 9 years apart. First it was Alan and now it's Geoffrey. They were business partners and friends. The first time out, suspicion centered around Emma and now she's worried that she's on the x again but there's other people who had issues. So hard to review without spoilers! The characters come through loud and clear in this format, which has the advantage of keeping you guessing. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. A good page turner.

A series of events told from different points of view. Who is telling the truth? I liked the way this story is written and I am still trying to work out how many lies were told.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Wow oh wow!
This is the most amazing book! This author is an absolute genius. This could easily be turned into a crime show/film.
This is told from the point of view of those involved, through interviews. Initially, I thought that this would be a difficult read but instead it's one that I haven't been able to put down.
I have devoured this book in just hours and although this is my first read by this author, it definitely won't be the last.
I will be recommending this read to friends just so that I can discuss how utterly fantastic it is.
This is a definite five star rating from me and I am excited to see what this author has for us next.

I have After The Accident by Kerry Wilkinson on my To-Be-Read list right now but since it’s published next week, I wanted to be sure to include it in my feature today! Don’t miss this one. What grabbed my attention was the setting of a vacation, the mystery surrounding a murder and the way the story is structured, told through interviews. Not only do I love a thriller/mystery/suspense but if an author can present a story through transcripts, interviews etc, something unique, I will absolutely want to read it and I think you will too!

Take a look:

Under a cloudless Mediterranean sky, two families wheel their suitcases past swaying palm trees towards their hotel to grab a spot by the pool. But behind the smiles, someone is hiding a terrible secret… I never wanted to come on this trip. I thought the accident had torn us apart forever, but then my mother called out of the blue, wanting to make amends. So here we are, two families on a beautiful island, sipping sangria like nothing ever happened.

My parents’ oldest friend, Daniel, was invited too – I’ve never trusted him, and now he brings up my past mistake every chance he gets. And why does his son, Victor, keep disappearing off on his own? Even my brother’s here, with his twins. It’s amazing to see my nieces playing happily in the pool. After what happened at home, it still hurts me to be around the girls, but more so that my brother doesn’t trust me alone with them.

Despite everything, it’s going surprisingly well – everyone forcing a smile at the dinner table, laughing at the twins’ antics – until the night my father is attacked on the beach, left for dead on the sand. As always, all fingers point to me, but this time I know for certain that I’m innocent. And if I’m not guilty, someone else on this holiday is…

An FYI, After The Accident was formally titled Seven Days In July. This twisty novel will be out on March 31! Pre-order now.

3.5 Stars!

There are three sides to every story....yours, mine and the truth! This book is crazy! It reads like an interrogation room on a Law and Order episode! You think you know, but do you? Are you being played? What the hell is going on? I flew thru this read...perfect while being stuck in the house...thanks Coronavirus.

A family on a Mediterranean vacation, beautiful island, family, what could go wrong? Only everything! Geoffrey and Bethan take their family and his business partner and family on vacation. But, the first night there is an accident easily similar to one that happened 9 years earlier. The story is pieced together by interviews of all participants. Total dysfunctional family that will have you shaking your head. Nothing is ever as it seems...do we only see what we want to see?

Thanks to Ms. Wilkinson, Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone.

Very different story telling method---it's told in a series of interviews of people who may be witnesses and involved. It's a true story, but you don't know who to believe. Will keep you wondering how this mystery will end. Thank you NetGalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

There are two side to every story and it's up to you to decide which one you believe in. "After the accident" is told in a series of interviews given by the characters to a documentary crew. At first I was a bit skeptical about this, cause I've read some other books in this style and I was not a fan, but in this case it grew up on me as the plot progressed and the two different versions of the truth came out. Almost all the characters were pretty unlikable and each an every one seemed to have some secret. Maybe because Emma was the MC I tend to believe more her side of the story, but who knows if she's telling the truth?

Fast paced mystery helped by the format in which is told, that will keep you trying to fit the different pieces of this he said/she said puzzle.

This was my first book by the author but I will definetely check his previous work.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for providing and eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow, just wow! After The Accident (formally Seven Days In July) by Kerry Wilkinson was full of twists and turns that I was not expecting. Written in transcript style, the book is fast paced and leaves you continually wondering who is to be believed. Kerry Wilkinson is fast becoming one of my favorite authors.

Thank you to Netgallery for the free digital ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. All opinions are my own.

I requested this but didn’t realise it was the same as the ARC Kerry sent me under a different title!! Anyway, I’ve finished it, and I think Emma was innocent, but again, who really knows the truth?   I have to say I agree about jury service, having done it twice, you really don’t know who’s telling the truth and who’s lying.  It does put quite a different perspective on things.  

There didn’t seem to be any solid forensic evidence either to prove things either way, perhaps the island wasn’t really geared up to a full blown investigation about Alan’s death nine years ago.  It reminded me of ITV’s series of White House Farm.  

This is a very different kind of book from Kerry’s usual crime fiction, first of all it is true, and I can’t say I warmed to any of the characters really, except Emma and her friend in the shop. The family appears dysfunctional and selfish, but then I don’t really know them. They were definitely a strange bunch!

My thanks to Kerry Wilkinson who did send me the ARC under the title Seven days in July and I have revised it with him but now I’m sending the review in under the new title. My thanks to Kerry, the publishers and netgalley for the ARC.

If you like the unreliable narrator mode of story telling, you'll love this book because every voice is unreliable.
After the Accident, pre-publication title Seven Days in July, recounts the stories of eleven people vacationing together in order to be together one last time before the Emma's mother succumbs to her illness. Actually, there may be other motivations that slowly unfold, depending who you believe. And that's the initial hook of this book, the quick jumps as the events on the island are told in chronological order, but not from a single perspective. Emma is our primary narrator, but quite often, the responses of of the others interject. It's clear the stories were being told individually to someone, but the narration makes you feel like you're sitting all in a room and people are interjecting and interrupting to challenge assertions and make their points.
When I started, I thought this was going to be too confusing, but it wasn't at all. The use of Emma as our main narrator provided a constant, albeit an unreliable one. The narration of this book really exposes the implicit and explicit biases from each character's perspective.
This narrative style could have worn off easily enough, and I'm glad that supporting it, or being supported by it, was a well developed plot that kept me up so I could find out what really happened. Or what each character says happened... No spoilers here, but it was refreshing that the style was not there to hide a weak plot, it's a fun story to read.
I am sure that when I read other's reviews there are going to be a lot of differing opinions on the ending, I for one really like how it ends.

This was written in such an interesting format. I wasn't sure at first but I though it was very effective. Hearing everyone's different memories was intriguing and it was fun to try to figure out which one I believed.

This book came up as Seven Days in July and not After the Accident as listed. I love Kerry Wilkinson books but this book disappointed me. I did not care for the format it was written in as it read like the script of a dysfunctional family with a he-said she-said dialogue. Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’d like to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘After The Accident’ by Kerry Wilkinson in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

The McGinley family together with business friends has arrived on the Greek island of Galanikos and when an accident occurs they’re forced to remember what happened many years ago when they were last there.

If the author’s name hadn’t been on the cover I would never have thought this was by Kerry Wilkinson as it’s so different to those previously written by him. I’m one of his greatest fans but I didn’t enjoy ‘After The Accident’ as I found it scrappy and difficult to get involved with the characters or story. It’s classed as a psychological thriller but I thought it was more like reading a collection of viewpoints and although the plot is different that doesn’t make it better. By the time I reached the end of the book I still didn’t know who was to blame and felt unfulfilled and disappointed. Sorry Kerry, this book might enthral lots of your readers but it didn’t do anything for me.

Loved , loved this book
It really has twists and turns along the way
You think it's heading one way when boom your mistaken
Highly recommended
Keeps you turning the pages

Great read a book that drew me in a family on vacation an accident and then the author gives the book a unique original twist.The book is told through transcripts interviews of the witnesses.Whobis telling the truth what really happened.An edge of your seat thriller an author who never fails #netgallety #bookouture

Well, one of my favourite authors has taken a punt on something a little different.... This whole book is written in the format of interviews for a documentary. Even with my track record with this author (both series and stand alone books) I have to admit that I was a little nervous going in... but you know what...? It really works. It ended up being a cracking read that gripped me from the off, held me captive throughout, spitting me out at the end with the feeling of a job well done. Everything you'd expect from this author is front and centre all the way through this book, especially his no nonsense attitude to storytelling, it's just the delivery that is a bit different...
We start with two families arriving on a Greek Island for a holiday. You can see that there are underlying rumblings of discord from the way they all act at the airport. Then there's an accident which coincidentally is rather similar to a death that occurred the last time most of the cast were on the island. Are these connected? All parties involved are interviewed and this book is made up of these interviews, cleverly edited so they flow as a story...
And that's all I'm saying. Should be enough to whet your appetite but not too much to include spoilers. Believe me, it's probably better if you just go in cold.
The underlying theme of the book is pretty much based on "he said / she said" and this continues all the way through. Who to believe, whose side are you on. And then the author wraps it all up - or does he?
I bet the author had the most fun with characterisation in this book. They are, each to a one, the most horrible bunch I have ever experienced in a book. And so many of them too! Even the twins had their moments! Some of the much smaller part players don't really deserve tarring with the same brush as the main characters but, let's just say, it's all a pack of lies, or is it? They had me spinning around, trying to grab hold of the truth, getting all dizzy and coming out of the book with my own thoughts and feelings on the matter. I can definitely see this being a marmite book - it'll either work for you or it won't. Me, I loved it and I would definitely recommend it as a great book club read. Loads to discuss...!
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I loved the style of this book. A series of interviews with all the main characters. The more I read I thought I knew who was telling the truth and who was lying. NOT!!!! Full of misdirection. A story of he says, she says but SO much more. This read gave my grey matter a real workout. I was so convinced I had the truth so many times only to be proved wrong again and again. I found this book very hard to put down and so entertaining almost five stars and so Highly Recommended.
Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for the ARC.

Kerry Wilkinson has the formula and boy, does he turn out really good books on a really regular schedule I’ve read four or five and that’s barely scratching the surface. This time we are on vacation when the body turns up. The styling is fun, we are told the past and present stories by the families and witnesses in police interviews. While we believe one version, the next version reveals itself and seems plausible too. Obviously, there are lies, but how many and by whom. Hmmm, who to believe?

I loved everything about this book!

First of all there is the format that is special. It's not like a book is normally written, but in fact we are reading interviews with different people that were cut into pieces and glued together like a dialogue. We are presented with a script for a documentary.

Secondly, it's a great story. It's an 'he says, she says' kind of thing where one character says something and we get the reaction from one or more of the others straight away.

But, who is telling it like it is...? I think we all know who we want to believe, but is that person truely the innocent one or are they leading us on a merry dance?

I honestly was convinced I knew who was trustworthy. Maybe I was misled by a master in deception... or maybe I wasn't...

This author has often surprised me with his amazing books and it seems like he has added another one to my pile. 5 stars for me, because any less would be a crime ;)

Thank you, Kerry Wilkinson and Bookouture

I honestly can't tell you if I have just read a true crime novel, a set of transcripts from a documentary, or if everything is completely fictional from the mind of a mastermind author.

However you wish to describe this book it is a wonderful experience, had me second guessing every word, had me googling to find out if the Greek island featured was even real.

Everything was incredibly convincing, so I'm still not sure whose accounts were the truth.

I know which character I want to believe, and its the one I really got inside the head of. But whether she is delusional or not I'm not completely sure.

It is though that got under my skin from the start and I found myself thinking about when I wasn't reading.

It was largely in style and content unlike anything I've read before, and I do love originality in a story.

I would dearly love to know the truth of what happened during those Seven days in July but somehow I'm not even sure the author knows.

It's the first book I've read by Kerry Wilkinson for a long while and now I'm wondering why that is. Definitely need to read more in future and not just when the cover piques my interest.

100% worth reading this, its fabulous.

Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.