Sometimes I Lie / Alice Feeney / 259 pages

This book is a suspense thriller that keeps you on the edge until and including the very end.  It is about a married woman, Amber Reynolds, who is in a coma as the result of a car accident.  The story is told from three perspectives.  The "Now" chapters are from Amber as she is aware that she is in a coma and relates what is going on around her in the hospital.  She has in and out periods that she can hear what is going on around her at the hospital.  She cannot communicate, but can hear.  The "Then" chapters tell the part of the story from a week before the accident until the accident.  The "Before" chapters are told from a diary kept in 1991-1993.  The book has many twists and turns and was hard for me to put down.  The different perspectives of the chapters made the story very interesting.

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman / 325 pages

Eleanor Oliphant is a 30 year old single woman working in an office.  She struggles with appropriate social skills and says exactly what she thinks.  Her routine is very structured and she does not have any friends.  Then she meets Raymond, an IT technician at her work, and her life begins to change as their friendship develops.  The author slowly reveals the events in Eleanor's life that shaped her into the person she is. There is excellent character development and  the reader vividly experiences the journey of change and acceptance that Eleanor lives through in the book. 

Let Me Lie/ Clare Mackintosh/ 386 pgs

Let Me Lie is the third book I've read by Clare Mackintosh. She writes unconnected suspense novels set in England, usually with one perspective from the victim and the other from the police. I like her writing but there seems to be an instance in each book where I think "That course of action does not make logical sense." It happens again here, but I still enjoyed the book. Anna is a new mother. It's just before Christmas and also the one year anniversary of her mother's suicide, which followed seven months after her father's suicide. Things have been rough for her, to say the least. She receives a card questioning whether her mother committed suicide and goes to the police, asking that they investigate again to determine whether her parents might have been murdered. The police in this instance is Murray, a semi-retired detective with a wife who suffers from bipolar disorder. The mystery surrounding Anna's parents kept me guessing almost until the end. Even more well-done, however, was the subplot of Murray and his wife. Well-done, but heartbreaking.