YOUR LITTLE LIES by Sue Fortin

 3* Required the suspension of far too much disbelief, unfortunately, though well written.

Sorry, but to justify the title of this review, there will be spoilers.

So Hannah, formerly Laurel, is in witness protection; her marriage broke up over this and now she's with Jasper and they have 8yo Pia. They've moved to what sounds like  barely disguised Sandbanks, for safety. But, not only is the cop who was on her case her nextdoor neighbour, but the person who caused her to go into witness protection (who she cheated on her husband with, but hubby wasn't above whoring her out, so yeah, half a dozen of one, 6 of the other) has done his time, been released not only early but into this exclusive community's nursing home/end-of-life home. And she breaks protocol with both.

This was a bit too much to take in, and add in 2 connected people from the bad guy's circle who seemed to have all too easily orchestrated matters, and it made me sigh. But I ploughed on, as her new boyfriend seemed decent and some of the plotting was, too. But, his actions at the end threw a WTF? thing in at the end, that's not explained. Was he covering his own back or hers? Was this showing his devotion or obstructing justice? 

I kind of wish the Laurel side of the tale had been abbreviated in parts and expanded in others, because the build-up to the cheating was too long and obvious and yet the going into witness protection was too skipped, as were the months leading up to losing her family. For all the expressed devotion to her little boy Declan, she totally forgot about him with a babysitter whilst she got her rocks off. Balance was off and the ending of Laurel was rushed.

Not a great book but not awful, though the coincidences were just too many to go with the flow with.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Storm Publishing for my reading pleasure.


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