Friends Like These

Written by Sarah Alderson

Review written by Amy Myers

Amy Myers is known for her short stories and historical novels featuring Victorian chef Auguste Didier and chimney sweep Tom Wasp. Her contemporary series feature ex-cop Peter Marsh and Daughter and classic car detective Jack Colby, and she is currently working on a new series starring Cara Shelley who runs a café in the grounds of stately home Tanton Towers. Website: www.amymyers.net


Friends Like These
Mulholland Books
RRP: £14.99
Released: December 11, 2018
Trade Pbk

Sarah Alderson’s Friends Like These is a tour de force right from the first page – the transcript of a 999 call from an unnamed female caller. From that it’s not hard to realise that there’s going to be a twist (or maybe several) in the storyline, but I was so engrossed in reading it that I forgot that until it took place.

Lizzie and Becca are old friends – or are they? They worked in the same office, so Lizzie explains to PC Kandiah after a missing person report has been filed on Becca. Becca was addicted to social media, especially when posting on the subject of her fantastic boyfriend James. Perhaps however, Lizzie tells the police, she and Becca weren’t such friends after all. She didn’t feel she really knew Becca – ‘not the real her’, she says. No one knew her.

The novel switches from Lizzie’s to Becca’s viewpoint throughout, sometimes at short intervals, which is rather confusing when all one wants to do is whizz over the pages and find out what happens next – but I still whizzed.  The author now lives in California where she writes TV scripts as well as novels, and the mix is a good one for the text of Friends Like These springs to life off the page.



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