Cross Her Heart

This new thriller follows Sarah Pinborough's breakthrough hit Behind Her Eyes, and like that book it's a fast paced compulsive thriller, with plenty of twists and turns on the way. At the outset, it presents as a fairly straightforward tale of menacing by a nasty ex-partner, and I was on the verge of dropping it for being so unoriginal and uninteresting, but I should have known better. Once you're about a quarter of the way in, the narrative begins to change, and you soon discover things are not what you thought they might have been. One interesting thing is that it's quite morally murky, as we end up rooting for a heroine who {MASSIVE SPOILER REDACTED!], but somewhat disappointingly there's an easy cop out to smooth this over for the reader. Fans of the genre and Sarah Pinborough's last book will love it, and there is indeed plenty to like here, but I have to say I miss the supernatural horror elements of her earlier books. I hope us genre fans haven't lost her to crime forever...