THE ALIBI GIRL BY C J SKUSE
Paperback published by HQ 6th February 2020
Joanne Haynes has a secret: that is not her real name.
And there’s more. Her flat’s not hers. Her cats aren’t hers. Even her hair isn’t really hers.
Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be. Not the bestselling romance novelist who gets her morning snack from the doughnut van on the seafront. Nor the pregnant woman in the dental surgery. Nor the chemo patient in the supermarket for whom the cashier feels ever so sorry. They’re all just alibis.
In fact, the only thing that’s real about Joanne is that nobody can know who she really is.
But someone has got too close. It looks like her alibis have begun to run out….
MY REVIEW
We know if we tell lies, we would end up in a complete mess than we started with. Many of us have been told by our parents never lie.
But Joanne Haynes isn’t her real name and her hair isn’t really hers. So why is Joanne pretending to be someone else? This becomes much more clearer as you dive into the story. She has told so many lies, but she isn’t lying about a coffin catalogue and the feeling of being watched. She is convinced that the woman who was murderd in a hotel room, was really looking for Joanne.
What I particularly liked about the author C J Skuke, is her honestly. The Alibi Girl, was originally her sisters Penny Skuke’s idea, but author C J Skuke, stole her sisters concept and run off with it and made the story into a dark psychological suspense.
I personally loved reading about Joanne Haynes, how she made up stories about who she is to different people. Something isn’t right with the fake Joanne Haynes.
MY THANKS TO
I would like to thank Harper Collins for sending me the paperback The Alibi Girl by C.J.Skuse to read and review and for inviting me to be part of the blog tour today.
ABOUT AUTHOR C.J. SKUSE
C.J. SKUSE is the author of SweetPea, in Bloom, Pretty Bad Things, Rockaholic, Dead Romantic, Monster and the Deviants. She was born in Weston-Super-Mare. She has first -class degree in creative writing and aside from writing novels, works as a freelance fiction consultant and lectures at Bath Spa University. C J Skuke’s Rhiannon Lewis series ( SWEETPEA and IN BLOOM) has sold over 20,000 copies in PB and been optioned for television by See-Saw, the company behind Oscar nominationed film Lion.
You can find C.J. Skuke on Twitter @CJSkuse
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