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As we meet her, however, she seems ok, likeable enough, not too smug. She goes to great lengths, for example, to draft round -robin Christmas letters that update the world on the family's accomplishments for the year, but with a dash of humour to accompany these, poking fun at herself and the situations. It's a nice tradition that pre-dates the social media world where you can crow about your triumphs in real -time, and there's something reflective about putting pen to paper and recollecting the past year.

In the world of Psychological Thrillers, we have those where the crime agencies are leading the investigation, and those where ordinary people are trying to have a go at it. This is the latter, and as keeping-up-appearances Sophie merges with fish-out-of-water sleuth Sophie, we start to learn exactly what lengths she will go to to protect what is hers. It was surprisingly funny in places – something not often said about books marketed as thrillers – and this comes almost entirely from Sophie and her lifestyle. It's an unusual way to style a book, but I rather liked it. It was certainly easy to read with lots of detail to take in, and numerous twists I didn't feel coming. It's not really destination fiction (I'm in no rush to move to Norfolk after reading this!) but for a small pocket of time it did transport me into that world, and the daft situations Sophie finds herself in certainly kept me entertained as well as intrigued.

I'd like to thank the publishers for sending us a copy to review. We also loved [[The Wrong Girl by Laura Wilson]]. If this is your genre, you may also like [[The Breakdown by B A Paris]].