IT'S NOT HER by Mary Kubica

5* Not a book with nice characters you feel for, but flippin' eck, what a good murder-mystery with twists and reveals I didn't see coming.

This isn't a book with a single character that I liked, cared about or empathised with. It's told from Courtney's POV for the most - she's the sister and sister-in-law of the so-far vics; mother to Cass and wife to Elliott, and possibly once an 'the other woman', as he was married when he met her. It's revealed that she doesn't trust him, and I was really hoping that lawyer-him would be clever enough to know that and confront her. 

The second person whose voice we hear is spoilt, woe-is-me and my 1st-world problems, whiny, bitchy, unpleasant, selfish, with anger issues Reese, 'like the candy'. She's a piece of work who's lucky not to end up being raped or killed, though she's not clever enough to fully embrace that.

The tale itself is well done. Little reveals about the characters make you wonder who could be the killer. Reese's anger issues that've made her a pariah. Her jealousy. Her social media fixation. Her brother Wyatt's drug dealing, his own anger issues. The dead woman's control issues. The dead man's lack of drive. The almost-rapist's issues. The two people who'll one day fully realise the extent of their actions, and who're already living with the consequences and guilt. And BANG, the final reveal that I was not expecting and that I'm not OK with. I can't say anymore or it'd be a massive spoiler. Just read this book. It's pretty damned addictive.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Little Brown Book Group for my reading pleasure.

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