Tell Me a Secret

By: Samantha Hayes

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Tell her all your secrets, and she’ll tell you all her lies....

Everything in Lorna’s life runs like clockwork, from her six a.m. run to the strict 60 minute counselling sessions she gives. It’s the only way she can deal with the terrible secret she carries.

When a new client arrives for his first appointment, Lorna feels her perfect life unravel in a matter of seconds. It’s Andrew, the man she’s spent the last year desperately trying to forget. It seems he can’t forget her either....

Against her better judgment, she anonymously contacts him on a dating site. Messaging him could mean the end of her marriage and her career, but she needs to know if his motives are genuine.

When Andrew is found dead in his home, grief quickly turns to fear when messages from him continue to arrive on Lorna’s phone. Somebody knows her secret and wants to use it to destroy everything she has.

Will she risk her family and her sanity to keep her secret? Will she risk her life?

If you love twisty psychological thrillers that get under your skin, like The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go, or anything by Louise Jensen, you’ll be utterly blown away by the jaw-dropping lies in Tell Me A Secret.

©2018 Samantha Hayes (P)2018 Bookouture

Wow..

This was a real roller coaster ride! Could never have guessed the end. Narrator was excellent!

it's a must!

Chilling... gripping. i loved it! i felt at times like i was in a maze of mirrors. it was a fabulous and stunning journey

Um, Who Wrote the Rave Reviews and Why?

The only saving grace of this novel was in its performance. The main character is annoying, the ending comes out of left field in a way that seems more ridiculous than surprising and all the lead women in the novel come off as crazy, damaged and needy. Ugh, not my type of female lead.

Thos was a weird one...

Not sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
I'm not sorry I listened to it, but as a fan of psychological thrillers, I'm not sure I can recommend it either. I feel like any true review would be a spoiler so I will leave it at this

Wow! And to think I almost returned this one!

It was slow at the start but a terrific read ... so many messages about how guilt & betrayal can destroy you ... then the end ... OMG. Never saw that coming!

Too long and repetitive

The constant overwrought dialogue to get to the point could have been a lot shorter. I also thought it was a bit hard to follow in parts. The ending was the best part of the whole book. Not worth all that whining from the main character though.

Boring and repetitive until the last chapters

Good story. Great narration. But the first 3/4 were very long and just a typical story of a married woman having an affair. I fast fwd a lot of it without missing a thing. But the last 1/4 was really good. I only figured some of it out earlier like others had reviewed so that helped to make it more interesting at the end.

excellent

true psychological thriller
great writing, narrator matched protagonist, twists to storyline that were fitting yet surprising. intelligent
and for my liking, no gratuitous sex.or violence

So slow

I can’t even get through this book. It’s so slow and isn’t holding my interest. It gets great reviews, but I’m just not able to hang in there.

Confusing

This book was very confusing at times and boring at other times. I finished it but, I’m so glad it’s over!

Ludicrously over convoluted tale.

I have read other books by the author which I would recommend but this take over complicated psychological thrillers to a new level. Half of the book was very slow with endless repletion and unbelievable ruminations by central character. Followed by the next half running at a fast pace but with equally unbelievable plot twists. I did listen to it all but just to see if it had any saving graces. IT DIDN'T & yes very depressing too.

Depressing

What a terribly depressing and convoluted tale. I assume the author felt all the strands were joined up in the end. The whole thing was utterly unbelievable with one-dimensional characters. I stuck with it as I wasn’t allowed to return it.

Very slow going

I loved the characters but the book really didn’t get going until the final 2 hours.

Amazing

So amazing and gripping and a complete shock I never saw it coming defo reading her other books and love Karen cass she’s such a good narrator and was the reason I actually listened to this in the first place

wow.

I think this might be Ms Hayes best so far that I've read. The explorations, relationships, twists and turns. Therapy.... the calm, the angst, the buried past, the mind snap, the revenge, love & hatred..... it's all there waiting. Karen Cass narrated it perfectly.

Couldn't finish it boring

Awful. Boring. Female character just whinged. Couldnt finish it. Wouldn't bother even if desperate.

Surprisingly good thriller

I admit the main character annoyed me at times, but now that I"ve finished it he book I can say it was absolutely worth persevering with.

Another breathtaking Novel!

Wow!! Samantha your writing is incredible!!
The second book that I’ve read of yours and I can’t wait for the next one!!
Twists and turns that I didn’t see coming, it left me gasping for air!!
Thank you for sharing your amazing talent!

Another pathetic female lead

I’m ‘sick’ of books where the pathetic reaction of the female lead to anything and everything is fainting/feeling faint, dizzy, feeling sick, being sick, retching, etc etc. It’s like reading about a Victorian heroine who has a delicate constitution

fabulous

wow wow wow what a fab book. always keeping you guessing. you'll never guess ...