His & Hers
There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.
Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She’s worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC’s lunchtime news, putting work before friends, family, and her now ex-husband. So, when someone threatens to take her dream job away, she’ll do almost anything to keep it.
When asked to cover a murder in Blackdown―the sleepy countryside village where she grew up―Anna is reluctant to go. But when the victim turns out to be one of her childhood friends, she can’t leave. It soon becomes clear that Anna isn’t just covering the story, she’s at the heart of it.
DCI Jack Harper left London for a reason, but never thought he’d end up working in a place like Blackdown. When the body of a young woman is discovered, Jack decides not to tell anyone that he knew the victim, until he begins to realise he is a suspect in his own murder investigation.
One of them knows more than they are letting on. Someone isn’t telling the truth. Alternating between Anna's and Jack's points of view, His & Hers is a fast-paced, complex, and dark puzzle that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
Title: His & Hers
Author: Alice Feeney
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publication Date: 07/28/20
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Language: English
ISBN: 1250266076
ISBN-13: 9781250266071
My Review
Flipping loved it! 🖤🖤🖤
"There is a version of me I can only ever be with myself"
There are always two sides to a story...unless there are three!
His & Hers is a fantastic page-turner!
His:
Jack Harper works for the police in Blackdown, a sleepy town where nothing really ever happens. In his own words: "...since I left London, my job has been as dull a nun's underwear drawer."
With his occasional escapades with women to forget his divorce, he is struck at a loss when 3 murders happen within a few days from each other. All of them are women...all of them can be traced back to him in some way.
Hers:
Anna Andrews has worked terribly hard at becoming the permanent news reporter in Blackdown at the local news station. With a mother to take care of who suffers from dementia, she has become a workaholic and is hovering at the edge of becoming an alcoholic to drown out her divorce, the loss of her infant baby girl, and pesky coworkers trying to steal her position.
"If you don't scratch at the solitude, it starts to feel normal again soon enough. But I still think about him, and us, and her. "
Anna appears at the scene of each murder, ready to report. How is it that she has the know-how of these murders before official press releases?
Them:
Jack is realizing that there is evidence of the murders that have a common denominator - HIM, and someone is wanting him to know that they know.
Anna is wrestling to come to terms with her personal life and a picture that turns up and tears open old wounds from her High School days. The scary part is, the girls on that picture are the murdered woman of Blackdown. Will she be next?
This thriller is amazing. In terms of wordplay, the author ingeniously made it a very interesting guessing game making use of these pronouns and not spelling things out by name. Just about every chapter ends on a twist or cliffhanger. It is impossible to stop reading!
Somewhere along the way, the story gets interjected with specks of cursive writing, where someone tells about the orchestrated murder story and motive, but it doesn't come together till the end, which happens to be a race of life and death for both of the main characters.
Only someone knifing enough can orchestrate these murders and put all the pawns into play....but who can it be and what was the motivation?
Very clever and riveting read. Super fun and hair raising.
Definitely very worth reading.
Cheers!
I received a digital copy of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
All opinions are my own.
Thank you!
