I love a good amnesia story and Diane Jeffrey delivers the psychological thrills and twisty twists! This thriller moves at a brisk pace with tons of intrigue. I will for sure read this author's next book!

A story which fluctuates between present and past. Emily wakes in hospital on the day of her husband’s funeral after surviving the car crash in which he died. She was driving. She can't remember the moments just before the accident. As the memory returns, so do past traumas. Someone is trying to convince her that her husband is still alive. She doesn’t know who she can trust. The accident is being investigated by the police but when she fears her house in being invaded by a strange person. She doesn't know who to turn to.
Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for the advance ecopy.

This was a great escape and will have readers ready for more. The characters came to life and made me root for them. I will add this book for students to enjoy.

Upon hearing her husband was killed in the car she was driving and with no recollection of the events, Emily finds her past resurfacing as she struggles to figure out what happened. In her fragile state of mind she begins to see and witness things that prove Greg may possible be alive. Or is her mind playing tricks on her? Told in the past and present, the story has many characters involved - who has it out for Emily and why? Not knowing who she can trust, Emily is determined to find out the truth. Will the betrayals, lies, and secrets tip Emily to her breaking point?

Having read a few books from this author, I thought this was a good read. By now I'm used to her writing style and I enjoy her books. I will definitely continue to read her books in the future.

Thank you Netgalley and Harper 360/HQ Digital for the opportunity to read this book.

What a completely twisted story! I loved every minute of it. It was so good, really draws you in from the beginning and doesn’t let go until the wild ending!

This was an exciting psychological thriller. The first half felt a bit different from the second half but it was good, interesting. It kept me guessing for most of the story.

A n utterly brilliant thriller that had me gripped from the very first page. This book is full of twists and turns and I loved it.

Lots of twists and turns in this entertaining thriller. First time reading a book by Diane Jeffrey. It didn't quite reach the point that I had to finish it, but it was a good book.

Wow! What a mixed up, psychological thriller!
Though it started out pretty slow, it did pick up.
The characters are well developed
The ending was 😳.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book for my honest opinion. All opinions expressed are my own.

When Emily wakes up in the hospital with no recollection of how she got there she learns that there’s been an accident and her husband has died. As Emily is grieving her husband’s death, she slowly begins to notice things that make her question her sanity. Could her mind be playing tricks on her or is her husband really dead?

I enjoyed that the first part of the book alternated between present day and past timelines giving us inside to Emily’s history. The second part of the book moved much quicker and felt a little rush. Emily was a good main character and the story reads fairly well.


Thank you @netgalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

To lie or not to lie...gosh, it's not even the question anymore. The real question is which type of lie is better? The one you say in order to prevent hurting someone you care about OR the one you tell in order to save yourself? Those Who Lie was an edge of your seat thriller read with so many intricately designed plot twists that kept my head spinning - in the best way possible. 😉 The way Diane Jeffrey created her magnificent novel was brilliant! 🤩You are instantly thrown into the mystery of what happened to Emily's husband told using two different time periods - past & present in order to help her "remember" what happened that fateful night. Excellent novel for thriller enthusiasts everywhere! 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️book for sure!

Those Who Lie is a shocking thrill ride from beginning to end. Diane Jeffrey takes the reader through a roller coaster of emotions from “that is so sad” to “what in the world is going on here?”

Emily Klein wakes up in the hospital to police investigators. She knows there has been a horrible accident, but she does not remember anything about the crash. She does remember that she was driving, and her husband was in the car. Emily is confused because none of her family is there to be with her. Her husband is not there. She does not see her mother or sister or brother. She soon learns they are all at her husband’s funeral. Emily is devastated when she learns that she killed her husband in the crash.

Or did she? Messages start arriving from her husband. Everywhere she goes, she sees him, but he will not talk to her. Emily cannot understand why her husband keeps running or why he will not come home.

While her past continues to haunt her, Emily must face her demons and unravel the web of betrayal to move forward.

Diane Jeffrey delivers a psychological thriller with one plot twist after another. Jeffrey even ends the book with one final twist that leaves the reader reeling. Some issues remain unresolved even in the end, which makes me hope that there will be a sequel to Those Who Lie.

Those Who Lie will be released December 6, 2021, and I highly recommend it. This would be a great stocking stuffer for someone who enjoys mysteries and/or psychological thrillers. Be prepared to stay up way too late reading and have your mind blown.

This was Diane's first book. I read this years ago, and Great read highly recommend it; I was about 50 pages in and had Deja Vue

This was a great thriller! The character development was perfect and writing style was great. This one was hard to put down! I thought I had the twist figured out early on and I was definitely fooled. Great pacing with so much suspense!

2014

Emily wakes up in a hospital to find two police officers by her bedside who begin to question her. They tell her that the car she was driving crashed and her husband, Greg, was killed.

1995

When she was a child, Emily’s father continuously sexually abused her. Then, one night when he came to her, she shot and killed him. Afterward, she spent some time in a Children’s Mental Hospital.

2014

Emily is home from the hospital and recovering from her injuries. She is trying to accept Greg’s death. When she starts receiving messages on Facebook she’s convinced are from Greg, she wonders if he really could be alive.

This is a twisted story of grief and how it can mess with your emotions. It switches back and forth in time to show readers how Emily’s childhood left her without a lot of stability. However, I found it frustrating at times to understand Emily’s inability to cope. Grief is a horrible thing but the whole story just did not have that thriller effect that I hoped to see.

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Totally loved a previous novel, The Guilty Mother. This one starts strong with Emily waking up in the hospital after a fatal car crash, remembering only snippets of what happened. We, and Emily, begin to doubt her sanity when she receives texts from, and sees her husband who was killed in the crash. While the middle got a little bogged down the pace picked up during the final third when we begin to realize who the villain may be. Surely no, possibly, definitely, Enjoyed it .

Reading Between the Wines book review #124/115 for 2021:
Rating: 4 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷
Book 📱: Those Who Lie
Author: Diane Jeffrey
Genre: General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers
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Sipping thoughts: I loved Diane Jeffrey’s A Silent Friend and The Guilty Mother. Those Who Lie did not disappoint. There is so much suspense and mystery that you will keep trying to figure out who did what and why. I thought I knew what happened but I oh my I did not. I loved the reveal and the twistiness of it. It was wicked and crazy.

Sipping synopsis in seconds: Crash. Husband’s dead. Wife is suspicious. Memory loss. Crazy family history. Betrayal. Lies. Nothing is what it seems. Shocks and surprises. Evil.

Cheers and thank you to @NetGalley, @dianefjeffrey and @Harper360. @HQDigital for an advanced copy of @ThoseWhoLie.

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I like giving new authors a try, and the blurb calling this first novel by Diane Jeffrey a "tantalising (sic) and taut thriller with more twists and turns than a corkscrew" was intriguing, so I requested an advance reader copy of this novel. Did it live up to the blurb? Not really. While it wasn't dreadful, I didn't find it to be a taut thriller for a number of reasons, which I'll get to, and for those reasons, I cannot give this novel more than a 2-star rating.

From the first sentence, in August 2014, "Emily Klein doesn't know she has killed him until the day of his funereal. Her loved ones, including of course, her husband, are all at the church rather than her bedside." I'll admit to being intrigued, and we soon learn that Emily is in the hospital, the police are at her bedside, and after being given some information from the two law enforcement officers waiting at her bedside for her to regain consciousness, she has only a vague memory of the car crash, and no idea that she was the driver, or that her husband is dead.

Instead of moving forward in time, we then jump back to December, 1995, only to learn that 14-year-old Emily has been repeatedly sexually abused by her father, and that her mother is an alcoholic. Emily is so afraid of his abuse, that this time she has a knife stashed under her pillow, but in short order, while again being sexually abused, her father is shot dead, and Emily is blamed and found guilty of his murder--and ends up being sentenced to time in a youthful offender/mental health facility, although she has no memory of killing her father.

We then jump forward to 2014, and that's just the beginning of the chapter by chapter jumps between Emily's past and her present--so many jumps in time and location that I started to keep chapter-by-chapter notes on what year we were in and at which location, something I found incredibly annoying. I suppose that all the time jumps, and Emily's memories were an attempt to add tension and intrigue to this story, but I would have been far happier and far less confused reading this novel had it been written in a linear time frame.

The next major event is the death of Emily's mother in a drunken fall down the stairs, and once again, Emily, who was nowhere near the scene is again interrogated. I kept asking myself why she never did what I would have done if I were to be suspected of two, and possibly 3 murders, and that is to ask for an attorney. Meanwhile, Emily is getting phone calls and Facebook posts purportedly from her supposedly dead husband. Does she mention this to law enforcement? Of course not, because that would make too much sense. (Loud sigh!).

There are a number of secondary characters, Will, a childhood friend, Matt, her younger brother, Richard, a strange man she's been dating, her older sister, Amanda, and her best friend, Pippa. None of these friends suggests hiring an attorney either, and, as the novel progresses, there are instances where Emily thinks she sees her dead husband, her belief that she's being followed, missing cell phones, odd text messages, break-ins at her home, the destruction of the paintings she was planning to exhibit, and, oh yes, the suggestion that Emily has a dissociative personality disorder, and that these crimes are being committed by her alter-ego, Em, also the name of Emily's imaginary childhood friend.

With its confusing timeline, long periods during which Emily and her friends and family keep coming up with possible suspects or reasons for what Emily is experiencing, the fact that there was little to no character development for any of those secondary characters, this novel, while not badly written, just dragged on and on, as slow as molasses in January.

Yes, there is a surprise ending, and, since I'm not generally a fan of psychological thrillers, I didn't guess the identity of the person who was behind all of the aforementioned plot twists, break-ins, sightings and vandalism, which was the only saving grace I could find in this novel. If this is a genre you enjoy, you may like this novel far more than I did, but I cannot recommend it.

As stated at the outset, I read an an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions stated are my own.

In his book, we follow the life of Emily after the car accident that killed her husband. In the first half of the book author goes back to Emily's past and uncovers some of the secrets she is hiding, in the second half, we are trying to put together all the hints to find out whodunit.
Writing is easy to follow and the characters are very well developed. Of course, some of the stuff is unrealistic but this is the work of fiction, it's meant to be. The ending becomes predictable through the half of the book, although I did not get the reasoning until the very end. Awesome book in the thriller genre and is absolutely worth the read.

Thank you, NetGalley for the free copy in exchange for an honest review.

“Who can I tell? Who can I trust?”

These are the questions that our protagonist, Emily Klein, has towards the end of the book, and they are the questions that arise throughout the entire story. When your memory is foggy, when you’re dealing with loss, and especially when you feel like you’re being targeted, I’d imagine it’s hard to find people who you feel like you can trust.

This book begins with Emily waking up in the hospital, and the police are right there to question her. She has been in a car accident with her husband, and he didn’t make it - in fact, his funeral is happening as she’s hospitalized. The police are trying to find out more about the crash, to see if Emily had anything to do with it. Eye witnesses saw some arguing beforehand, and they are worried that Emily crashed their car on purpose.

Emily is not only shocked and devastated by the news that her husband is dead, but she’s worried about not being able to remember what happened. Is it really possible that she killed her husband? Why do the police keep asking her questions? Why does she feel like something is terribly wrong? Emily has been under scrutiny by the police before, and she doesn’t trust them. After reading why, I don’t blame her!

As she’s trying to get on with her life as a young widow, strange things start happening. She’s getting disturbing messages and calls, she feels like she’s being followed and she knows somebody has been in her home. She’s reluctant to go to the police, but she’s starting to worry that she’s in danger.

This is all what the synopsis talks about, but this book is about so much more than that. There is a big family dynamic, a back story about sexual abuse, and a lot of people involved. Don’t worry though, it didn’t get convoluted. The entire book entertained me, and I was wavering between three and four stars during the first half. Then in the second half, I changed that to a four or five star rating. I’ll split it down the middle at four stars, but the ending of this was fantastic.

At one point, there were almost a dozen people that I was suspicious of. There were red herrings everywhere, which always make a book more fun. I had so many ideas about what the ending might be, and I was right … but not until the very end, and even then I only figured out part of it. If you’re looking for a twisty suspense novel, I’d recommend this one as an easy and entertaining read.

(Thank you to Harper 360, Diane Jeffrey, and NetGalley for the complimentary copy in exchange for my review.)