ARC Review: I Know You Saw Her by Ann Girdhary

Name: I Know You Saw Her
Series: Stand Alone
Author: Ann Girdharry
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Format: eARC – eBook
Genres: Adult, Psychological Thriller, Mystery
Spice Rating: 🌶️
Thank you to Netgalley for the eARC – even if I got to it late! Sorry!

Rating:

Synopsis: Goodreads
Someone knows what happened to Amy.

Five years ago, Fiona’s sister Amy vanished without a trace.

Determined to find out what happened to her beloved sibling, Fiona assumes a new identity and rents a room in the boarding house where Amy once lived.

It’s an eerie place. The landlady speaks to people who aren’t there while her son Keith silently observes Fiona from the shadows.

Little by little, Fiona pieces together the truth about the life her sister was living – and the web of secrets and lies in which Amy became entangled.

Then Fiona realises she is putting herself in grave danger, because someone close has a secret they’ll do anything to protect.

But she has to know the truth. She’ll follow in her sister’s footsteps – even if they lead her to a place darker and more terrifying than anything she could ever have imagined.

Review:

I Know You Saw Her is a psychological mystery thriller where we follow Fiona as she traces the last known footsteps of her older sister, Amy, who went missing 5 years prior. I was immediately taken by the premise of this story. I loved Fiona as a character and the idea of her faking her identity in order to live as Amy did with those she lived with, without them knowing, just to try and get someone to slip up about what happened… I loved it.

Fiona has lost both her parents and with still no answers as to what happened to Amy, and no reason to stay… she leaves and does what she needs to in order to live the life her sister was living. Her attempt to get answers is a bit… shall we say not thought through well? But I loved it nonetheless.

Ann Girdharry is not a thriller author I have experieneced before – but the suspense in this novel was excellent. I was so uneasy with the situation that Fiona was in because there was so much going on and so many characters who were seemingly shady that I was never sure if Fiona was safe… if she was actually going to get to the bottom of this mystery… nor what actually happened to Amy!! It was very well written.

The ending wasn’t my favourite twist, I’ll be honest. But it truly didn’t seem so far fetched – so that’s not the reason I disliked it. I just simply thought we were going down a different route. Although I see how we got there, the kind of final piece to the puzzle that explained how we got there was a bit… well poorly explained for my liking. There was an element of just trust the pieces have been worked out and put together – at least that was how it felt.

As I said, I really liked our FMC and I loved the writing style! It was a really good thriller that kept me in a state of unease and kept me tense. I am glad I finally got round to reading it!

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