Our Rating 5⭐
401 Pages
First published 2023
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One dark evening in New York City, two strangers meet by chance.
Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realise they have so much in common.
They both feel alone. They both drink alone.
And they both desperately want revenge against the two men who destroyed their families.
Together, they have the perfect plan.
If you kill for me, I'll kill for you...
A standalone by Ireland's answer to John Grisham. Obviously heavily influenced by Patricia Highsmith's Strangers On A Train, (which we have also reviewed.) Cavanagh does a bang up job of updating and twistifying ( adding more twists!) to the original. The original's plot still stands up but it does feel very dated now. Cavangh's updated plot is slightly more complex but doesn't feel forced. It's not twists for twists sake. I started reading unconciously just expecting a rerun of the original but with modern day language and sensibilities. This would have been a worthwhile enterprise on it's own but the deciously dark corruption of the plot is just a juicy bonus. There are a couple of cracking twists. I read a few other books at the time I read this and this is the one that stays with me. If you loved the original, or even if you didn't this is well worth a read.“That kind of death didn’t ride alone. It brought more dark horsemen with it: unemployment, debt, addiction and pain that at times was too great to bear.”
“In any other world that meant he would lose his job—but not when his father owned the company. Some people, those with money and the ear of power, never pay for their crimes the way ordinary people do.”
“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable”
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