Crime and Thrillers
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A murder (then another), a love affair (then another), lies, deception, (viewings) and Mme Bovary.
Hanna, a small-town estate agent, is faced with a moral dilemma. To help a friend and colleague she tells a lie, claiming to keep an appointment at Three Albert Terrace that never took place. She finds herself drawn into a criminal investigation when a woman’s body is found in the empty property.
Should she continue to protect Adele or tell the police all she knows. Or should she try to uncover the truth for herself?
Praise for I Used To Live Here Once:
‘A tense, absorbing and unsettling story, expertly melding the ordinary and the eerie’
(Isobel Dixon, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, ChipLitFest 2021)
Here's what readers have to say about this book....
Ahhhhh! This was a fantastic and heart pounding read!! I never knew what was going to happen or who to trust! Also made me feel like I need to look at homes for sale.
Hannah is an estate agent. She dashes, as breathless as the reader, from viewings to clients to/an increasingly dissatisfied boss, to a background of up and down love. In her urgent rush, she is also weighed down by the growing menace from a small lie she told to protect a friend. Her guilt and fear grows as the lie takes on more importance and significance. We encounter delightful characters, the police lady with a too short skirt and too fat thighs.The young man with the faded denim shirt and eyes the colour of the Agean. Charlie, the boss and his boy friend wearing matching suits.The naughty Romanian gardener. As this exciting story progresses, the plot deepens till it becomes too late for Hannah to tell the truth.The one lie leads to more, and eventually to murder. Then another. And be prepared for a completely surprising and unexpected ending.
If you're looking for a book that will hold you in suspense so you can't wait to turn the pages, then this is the book for you. Three Albert Terrace is narrated by an attractive young woman estate agent. Initially you go along with her, seeing the world with her eyes. It is only as the book progresses and her actions seem not always straightforward, that you start to wonder whether what you see through her really is the way things are. There is a murder, in fact two. And several of the characters, even the police, could possibly have been involved. As to who is the guilty party, the author keeps you guessing and on tenterhooks right to the end. Several characters come under suspicion. Or is each just part of the narrator's fantasy? The book is cleverly plotted and the style with its short sentences, carries the reader smoothly along. An ideal book for holiday reading. It will keep you utterly absorbed on plane or beach.
