Lucy and Adam do everything with their closest family friends Cora and Scott. They’ve even bought a beach house together to enjoy summers with their kids.
One day a colleague passes around photographs of her honeymoon in the Maldives and Lucy is stunned to see Scott in one of them, his arm is around another woman.
If that isn’t bad enough, the news then breaks and the woman from the photograph has mysteriously vanished.
As Lucy looks for answers first her life begins to unravel around her, just how much can you trust your best friends?
The Couple in the Photo is a compelling thriller, which keeps you guessing all the way through. Just when you thought you had guessed it another twist would happen and ultimately, I did not see the ending coming.
At the heart of the book are two families, what seems to be an idyllic friendship is actually a masterful construction of lies. The characterisation is mostly believable, and I really enjoyed the dynamics of friendship between the two couple as well as the dysfunction of it.
I enjoyed the fact that photographs were a continuous theme throughout the book – how one photo can unravel lies and/or how one photo can be edited to create a whole other narrative. I thought this focus was very thought-provoking.
Overall, 4 stars, a compelling thriller based on friendship and deceit and will keep you guessing until the very end.
The Couple in the Photo is out on the 22nd June.
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