Blog Tour: Let’s Play Dead – Elena Frost

Don’t speak. Don’t move. Don’t even breathe.

After a whirlwind romance, widow Lisa thinks she’s found her perfect match in senior policeman Alex. He’s everything she needs—a devoted husband and caring stepfather to her daughter Bella.
And, like Lisa, he knows what it is to lose someone precious. Alex suffered his own bereavement when his previous partner, Polly, passed away.

But is he really Mr. Right?

As Alex’s charm gradually morphs into rigid control, Lisa realises that he has a dark side, that she has married a man she doesn’t really know.
When she discovers a note left by his deceased wife Polly which seems to imply that Alex may have been responsible for her death, Lisa fears that she and Bella may be in mortal danger.
But escaping a man who wears a badge and knows how to hunt isn’t just difficult—it could be deadly.

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Elena enjoys psychological thrillers and crime fiction of all kinds, from the cosiest of cosies to the blackest of noirs.
She lives in East Lothian, Scotland, with her husband, three kids, and a fat black pug. Born in a colliery village in the North East of England, she cut her literary teeth on the great storytellers of the 70’s – Wilbur Smith, Frank Yerby, and Mary Renault. She began her writing career as an advertising copywriter and has since had novels published by Random House and HarperCollins. She’s had an original audio series produced by Audible UK, and also writes for TV.

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My thoughts: The domestic abuse statistics for police officers are pretty grim and the last few years have shown us that not everyone who works for the service is a good person. That’s certainly what Lisa comes to realise as she discovers that her new husband Alex is not the person he pretends to be.

There are cameras inside the house “for security”, he tracks her phone, checks her emails, follows her to her friend’s digs in Bath, demanding they go home right away. She catches him attempting to drown their dog. None of this is normal behaviour. Then she learns a bit more about his previous marriage, and the fact that he might have been poisoning his late wife.

So she plans to escape him, taking her young daughter with her, scared for her safety. He’s dangerous and she can’t go to the police – he’s one of them and she doesn’t trust that they’ll listen to her.

Then things turn really nasty. It seems there’s nowhere she can go that he won’t find them, nothing she can do to escape him. Faking her suicide might hold him off long enough to get away, but it might also put people she loves in danger, as he will go to any lengths to hold onto his family.

Gripping, tense and grounded in reality, this is a stay-up-all-night, rooting for the protagonist read.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.