Saturday, May 29, 2021

K.L. Slater's The Evidence is an up-all-night psychological thriller

 I will start this review by saying that I am a HUGE K.L Slater fan. I have read them all and loved them all! The Evidence is now one of my top 3.

With The Evidence, you don't get a simple psychological thriller. You get THREE in one! With that, you get a crazy, action packed, wild ride!

Esme has just started begun a true crime podcast called The Speaking Fox that has, so far, proven to be a success. She is fairly newly separated from her husband but things are going well. Her son, who was injured in a hit and run, needs additional care so her sister, Michelle, came to the rescue and moved in to help Esme. So far, so good in Esme's world.

Esme begins her career with the investigation and interviewing of a woman, Simone Fischer, who has been incarcerated for killing her abusive husband and has never spoken to the press before. The only people she has left in her life are her over protective, greedy brother and her somewhat estranged son. Esme is determined to form a connection between Simone and the public as well as find out what truly happened the night of her husband's murder.

Due to her son's injuries from the hit and run, he is often up at night with pain. Esme is, at these times, tortured with the fact that there is someone out there free, living their life after causing lifelong disabilities for her young son. During one night, up with her son, two detectives show up at her door and tell her that her sister, Michelle, has been brutally attacked and is in a medically induced coma in the ICU. Esme can't fathom who would want to hurt her sister. Was this a random attack? Was her sister keeping secrets from her? As she begins her own investigation, she has to ask herself, more than once, can she really trust anyone, even those closest to her?

The Evidence is a true psychological thriller. It's characters are well developed and easy to relate to, I cheered Esme along throughout the entire book, this single mom of a disabled kiddo getting her life back on track and becoming a success.

There are turns and twists and then twists and turns, none of which I was able to guess before they were revealed. It was a true shock and awe book!

Pick this one up and prepare to stay up until the wee hours!

I'd like to thank the author, K.L. Slater, the publisher, Bookouture and Netgally for the opportunity to read and give my honest review of The Evidence.

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