The explosive new thriller from Sarah Pinborough, author of the NUMBER ONE Sunday Times bestseller Behind Her Eyes.
Lisa has a sixteen-year old daughter Ava. They are close. She has one good friend, a work colleague, Marilyn. These three are our narrators with a few media and legal commentaries interwoven between them. It is a tale that shifts back and forth in time. Lisa has a dreadful secret that emerges when Ava saves a toddler’s life and the press move in. Ava then turns against her mother and we, the reader, get some of Lisa’s horrific childhood along with a whole lot of red herrings. The novel is full of nasty things happening to defenceless people. With false leads and trails with many twists and turns to keep you guessing, it has a pretty dramatic plot – very disturbing.
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I was engrossed all the way through this book, and I am so glad I got the chance to read it. I have not read a book like this before, I honestly can't explain how much I enjoyed this! I loved this book and would recommend it!
Cross Her Heart has 3 main characters, Lisa, Ava and Marilyn who tell their own story. This book swaps from character to character, but manages to do this so well. To begin with, we get to know the characters, then slowly the secrets start to come out as we learn more. - cross her heart and hope to die is the main story line.
As we learn more about these secrets these three characters keep, the book then dives into the pasts of one of these characters. This flashback makes you understand the story and what the character has been through to make them what they are today. At first I didn't really take to Marilyn but by the end she was definitely my favourite character in this book, and I thought she was amazing and so strong.... Read Full Review
A gripping thriller with excellent female characters, I found this book extremely hard to put down and enjoyed every page.
I have loved everything that Sarah Pinborough has written for adults and I marvel at the fact that she can turn her hand to a variety of genres with such fantastic results. This book is intelligent, well characterised and extremely hard to put down. I was intrigued by all the layers in the story and enjoyed learning about Lisa, Sharon, Charlotte and Katie. This will appeal to anyone who has enjoyed thrillers by B A Paris, Clare Mackintosh and Sabine Durrant.... Read Full Review
This is a psychological thriller in which secrets from the past come back to destroy the present, with devastating results.
I thought this psychological thriller started better than it finished. At first, I found it really absorbing and was enjoying getting to know the main characters. The story features Lisa, her teenage daughter Ava, and her best friend and work colleague Marilyn, who are all concealing secrets, particularly Lisa, who has a secret from her past which eventually blows apart her present.
However, as the story progressed I felt it became too far fetched to be credible and I found myself losing interest.... Read Full Review
From the author of Behind Her Eyes, now a Netflix Original Series hit
"Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession." --Harlan Coben
Lisa is living a lie and everyone is about to find out.
Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn.
But when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she's ready now. Maybe she can trust again. Maybe it's time to let her terrifying secret past go.
But when her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see, Lisa's world explodes.
As she finds everything she has built threatened, and not knowing who she can trust, it's up to Lisa to face her past in order to save what she holds dear.
But someone has been pulling all their strings. And that someone is determined that both Lisa and Ava must suffer.
Because long ago Lisa broke a promise. And some promises aren't meant to be broken.
Cross Her Heart features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Audiobooks of the Month, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Cross Her Heart is available in Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook
Cross Her Heart was written by Sarah Pinborough and published by William Morrow & Company an imprint of HarperCollins
Cross Her Heart has 368 pages
