March 2017

Clare Mackintosh’s last book, I LET YOU GO, was a 2016 Bets On selection and one of my go-to recommends as it had one of the best twists in a thriller that I have read. Thus I was anxious to get my hands on I SEE YOU, to see what she would do this time around. Once again she has written a twist into her tale, and again it is brilliant.

In I SEE YOU, Zoe Walker commutes the same way each day with the same route to the train station, standing in the same place on the platform to wait for the train and stands in her favorite place once in the car. One night as she commutes home, she sees her own face staring back at her from her newspaper with a phone number and a listing for a website called FindTheOne.com. Other women in those ads have become the victims of violent crimes, including rape and murder. Enlisting the help of a determined female investigator, who has some baggage of her own, they race to find who is behind this site before the perpetrators act again.

Clare has developed unique strong characters, and the story is well-paced. And she has perfected the art of the twist. I look forward to seeing what she does next. I highly recommend both books.