I've enjoyed all of Claire McGowan's books and this one is no exception. I Know You is fast-moving and chock full of suspense.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
When you get your hands and eyes in this kind of stories you enjoyed to the extreme.
This is the first book that I read of the author and didn´t disappointed. I really like the characters and how well it develops.
The authors gives voice to the same person at differents stages of her life and to me was very interesting. I think I never read somenthing like this before and I truly enjoyed reading from the beggining to the end.

This book held my interest from beginning to end. Sometimes I found myself holding my breathe until turned the page and read on. I loved the storyline, swopping between Rachel and Casey and the lies and truths. Each chapter closing in on the truth! A must read you will not want to put it down!

I received a free copy from NetGalley. Accused of murder falsely twice? Past caught up with her? A good page turner to escape for a few hours.

I love reading books told in multiple viewpoints and this does this but with a twist - the multiple viewpoints are from the same character but at different points in her life. It was well written and the plot was unravelled at the right pace with plenty of twists that kept me intrigued and wanting more right up until the satisfying end.

Well, this was a wonderful surprise! I didn't know anything about this author before reading this book, but I couldn't read this quick enough and will certainly be searching for other books she has written.

This book is written in two different timelines and follows the stories of Casey, a 19 year old who moves to America to become a Nanny for a young Hollywood family, and Rachel, a woman living a quiet life in the Lake District. Casey finds herself on Death Row, accused of killing the family she has been working for and Rachel stumbles across a dead body on her morning dog walk. The author drops clues along the way and works towards bringing both stories together as well as solving both of the mysteries.

I felt a real empathy towards both Casey and Rachel, mainly them feeling that they are SO unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other characters were also well written and this was the kind of book that I just wanted to stay up all night reading.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book and would give it 4.5 stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me this ARC in return for an honest review.

Plenty of twists and turns to keep you reading late into the night. Interesting characters and fantastic plot.

I enjoyed this book more than I expected to. As I got closer to the end I was able to guess what had actually happened so there was no major surprises for me but it was still a good book. Well written too.

I was grateful to receive a copy from Netgalley in return for a review.

This is the story of a woman who has tried to rebuild her life after being convicted, and pardoned, from a murder charge in her teens, just to be caught up again in another murder in her new life.

It’s an interesting story, one which would put me off ever letting my daughter go off to be a nanny in America! I enjoyed the story of this more than the current day story which got a bit confused at times. It’s a good thriller though, I certainly wanted to see what happened. It also satisfyingly closed up the loose ends.

Whew! What a rollercoaster of a read. Rachel Caldwell is living a new life in the Lake District after being exonerated from California’s death row twenty years earlier, when she stumbles across a dead body for the second time in her life. What does she do? She runs, of course.

This was told in a dual narrative, from Rachel in present day, and Casey (Rachel’s real name) back in 2000. The story had a lot of potential and I love a dual narrative, but I guessed who’d committed both murders quite early on and so it didn’t quite hit the ‘amazing’ mark for me.

A solid, easy reader 3.5 stars for me. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Not one of her best books
I would still recommend this book
This book is set in two time lines
Thanks NetGalley

This was an utterly gripping and tense read that had me hooked from the very beginning, I highly recommend this book.

The story follows Rachel who stumbles upon a body of a woman, who happens to be the wife of the guy she is sleeping with. However, she does not call the police. In fact, she just runs. Why? Because Rachel has been accused and convicted of mass murder before.
The premise of this book was so good, it pulled me in from the start. I liked the way the story was told: how both events were presented interchangeably and the transcripts from different crime podcasts and newspapers added a nice touch. The changing of the stories in each chapter built larger suspense and it left me reading even faster to get to the next chapter.
Considering this was quite an original concept, I would have given this book a higher rating if it was not for some of the actions of Rachel and her trying to "solve" Anna's murder. She kept saying how she did not do it -- so many times so that you would believe she actually did do it. And I cannot forgive her for not telling the police about what she knew about Alex, the man kept saying that his (ex)wife was crazy. That is an instant red flag if I have ever seen one (hell, maybe even a red billboard).
All in all, the plot twist was seen from a mile away and I did figure it out (for both murders) at the 40% mark, plus the ending felt super rushed, I still enjoyed this book and had a fun time reading it.

A cleverly woven story following "Rachel" as she is drawn in to a murder near her home and her previous life as "Casey" where she was accused of murdering the family she worked for in the USA. Can someone be this unlucky twice. As the book progresses Casey reveals more of what happened in the US while trying to prove her innocence in the UK. You have a feeling that she is holding back something from the USA part of her life and with each chapter you feel you are getting closer to the truth. Clare McGowan doesn't disappoint.

I was given a copy of I Know You by NetGalley and the publishers in return for an unbiased review.

As a teenage nanny in the US, Casey is sent to prison for the murders of her employers and their young daughter. When she eventually gets released, she returns to the UK as Rachel. Many years later, Rachel stumbles upon the body of her boyfriend’s ex wife. In fear of being implicated in another crime, she lies to the police about her movements. But will the police discover her previous identity and will they believe in her innocence if they do?

I Know You is a double thriller, with the two stories playing out side by side, The events in LA, which lead up to the triple murder and Casey’s imprisonment, run alongside the police investigation into Anna’s murder and what role, if any, Rachel played in it. There are some interesting twists and turns along the way, and the final outcomes of both parts kept me guessing right until the end.

Very enjoyable read.

Really well written. Quite a good plot. I sort of guessed part way through but wasn't 100% until the end. Highly recommended.

This was a weaker novel from this author but still a fairly good read. Rachel finds a body in the woods but doesn’t report it. Rachel is hiding from her previous life and does not want any investigation to blow it all open again.

This is missing the fleshed out characters that McGowan usually writes and the story line is somewhat fantastical but a good enough quick read

I Know You, by Claire McGowan, is my first foray into this author’s work – it’s a wonderful 4.5-star effort. I was considering giving it 5-stars but, I need to have some wriggle room if any subsequent reads by McGowan are better. Yes, this was that good!

The story is told in 2 timelines.

One follows Casey, a young English girl, who leaves London to work as a Nanny for a rich Hollywood family, around 20 years ago. The family she works for is a bit mad, the mother, a ‘wanna be’ actress, is highly strung and very difficult to be around. The father is a bit mysterious, there’s a couple of kids. A baby and a precocious young girl. Casey has her hands full and things go pear-shaped. Enough said.

The second, tells the story of Rachel, in present day England. Rachel works at a dog shelter; she lives on her own and is having an affair with a married man called Alex. Their relationship is full of passion and she is madly in love with him. Alex has not divorced his wife Anna at this stage, and Anna is not happy Rachel is seeing her husband. Again, things go pear-shaped. Enough said.

These 2 stories are linked and the author tackles both in alternating chapters. She tells the story in a very snappy, clear way – no messing around, everything written is relevant, important to the story and it had me thinking. It was so enjoyable, thought provoking as it contained more than one mystery. The ending was believable in a satisfying sort of way.

Excellent stuff and I’ve just added another book by McGowan to my TBR list, if it’s half as good as this one, it’ll be enjoyable.

4-Stars

Thanks to netgalley for an advanced reader copy. Although I was very excited to read another book by this author, this book started strong, but fell flat for me about halfway through. I would continue to read this author as I have enjoyed prior books, this one just wasn’t for me.

I enjoyed this book but at times I found it rather improbable and not quite as good as some of Claire’s previous books. I found the characters very interesting but some of the situations they found themselves in were rather unbelievable and their behaviours baffling. I guessed reasonably early in the story “whodunnit so the ending wasn’t that much of a surprise to me. Found this a light read to while away a rainy day. .