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What You Did

By: Claire McGowan
Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt, Karen Cass
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“A brilliant, breathless thriller that kept me guessing to the last shocking page.” - Erin Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.

When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted - by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying - but which? And why?

When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.

©2019 by Claire McGowan. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Crime Marriage

Critic Reviews

“Hitting the rare sweet spot between a satisfying read and a real page turner, this brilliantly written book deserves to fly high.” (Cass Green, best-selling author of In a Cottage In a Wood)

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Heart wrenching story. Just wanted to see how it would end tge whole time. Thank you.

Gripping and Thought Provoking

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Bit slow but lovely word impressions of situations and emotions with a final twist.

worth it

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I pre-ordered this book - waited months for it to become available. I so loved the Paula Maguire series, so had looked forward to a new book by this author. I enjoyed the little twist at the end but we would have all been looking for an ending that was not obvious. There seemed to be a lot of unnecessary repeated phrases. I will not give up on Claire McGowan just yet. Perhaps my expectations were just too high.

Disappointing read by one of my favourite authors

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I have read (listened to) the author's two other books 'The other wife' and 'I know you' both of which I rated 4 stars and read speedily as they were very interesting. So I was looking forward to reading this book. I am a disappointed reader and I will say that I will add this author to my 'not to read these authors' list. Not one character was likeable or nice. The female characters were hopeless, selfish and unkind. The male characters were sexists and stupid apart from one exemption.

I wouldn't recommend this book to a friend.

Narration: both narrators were very good in their character's voice representation.

Disappointed

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I thought this sounded like it would be good but I can’t bear to listen to the main narrators voice anymore.

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