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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2194 KP) rated The First to Lie in Books

Jan 18, 2021  
The First to Lie
The First to Lie
Hank Phillippi Ryan | 2020 | Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Who Do You Trust When You Are Surrounded by Lies?
As this book opens, we meet two women. Nora has just taken a job as a sales rep for a Boston based pharmaceutical company. However, she is not that interested in selling the product. Instead, she is keeping her identity a secret so she can try to find some kind of dirt on the company. Meanwhile, Ellie is a reporter who has just gotten a job at a Boston news station that is about to relaunch itself. She is planning a story on the same pharmaceutical company, but she is having trouble getting sources to go on the record. But in a world where everyone is lying, who can be trusted?

This book is a twisty thriller, and the less you know going into the story the better. Once again, Hank Phillippi Ryan has concocted a story that kept me engrossed from start to finish. Along the way, we get the story from several different points of view and in two distinct timelines, but it was always easy to follow what is going on, and all that information came into play before the story was over. I liked and sympathized with most of the characters. There was one character I found very annoying. We were supposed to find her annoying, but even so, she bugged me. I did feel like the timeline was a little off in one part, and I believe there was a continuity error as well. Overall, these are minor issues as I enjoyed the book while I raced to find out what was going to happen next.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2194 KP) rated The Other Woman (Jane Ryland, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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The Other Woman (Jane Ryland, #1)
Hank Phillippi Ryan | 2012
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Disgraced Boston TV Reporter Jane Ryland is trying to rebuild your life with a job on a newspaper. Her first assignment is to get an interview with a Senate candidate's wife. But Jane begins to suspect there is more going on than meets the eye - like the Senator is having an affair. Meanwhile, several dead bodies are showing up. Is there a serial killer on the loose? There are so many plot threads and characters that it took forever for me to get into the book. Once I did, it was a fun ride and I couldn't put down. Worth the effort, but it took about 100 pages to really start to click.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-review-other-woman-by-hank.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.