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libwinnie's review against another edition
3.0
Style reminded me a lot of Marian Keyes. Much of story in format of emails. Very flawed and rather unlikable main character. Intricate plot. Expected more from the ending.
mg_in_md_'s review against another edition
4.0
This review is based on the Advanced Reader's Edition that I received at the 2015 Malice Domestic conference. The story begins with a peculiar personal ad in which the individual isn't interested in a relationship, per se. Instead, C (for Confidant) x describes a murder scene and asks for the murderer to come forward and share their deep, dark secret. The story then goes back in time to the day of the murder when a woman, Nikki Clements, is stuck in traffic on Elmhirst Road. She spies a face in the crowd that she hoped never to see again, a police officer who is checking each car along the route. She panics and makes a U-turn to avoid an awkward encounter. However, her unusual behavior does not go unnoticed and she is summoned to the police station for questioning. The traffic jam was related to a murder investigation of a resident of Elmhirst Road, controversial columnist Damon Blundy. Among the questions Nikki is asked is why the words HE IS NO LESS DEAD were painted on the wall of Blundy's study. While Nikki is not guilty of murder, she is far from innocent and cannot explain her unusual behavior without revealing the secret that could ruin her. Nikki is at once more and less than she seems. The creepily unsettling psychological twists and turns abound as Nikki's secrets are revealed. Fans of darker psychological thrillers by [a:Gillian Flynn|2383|Gillian Flynn|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1232123231p2/2383.jpg] and [a:Tana French|138825|Tana French|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1277505771p2/138825.jpg] should keep an eye out for this book, which will be available in the US in August 2015.
rmarcin's review against another edition
3.0
Set in England, it begins with a personal ad searching for the woman with a secret. It describes a bizarre murder scene and then moves onto a world of secrecy, lies, adultery, and deception.
krobart's review against another edition
4.0
See my review here:
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/day-969-woman-with-a-secret/
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/day-969-woman-with-a-secret/
lriopel's review against another edition
4.0
This was a quite a good mystery. I was intrigued to find out where it was going, I had some genuine AH HAH moments, and I didn't completely guess the ending until I was supposed to be able to guess it, so it checked all the boxes of what I am looking for in a mystery. I will definitely have to check out more from this author - I believe this one was actually the latest in a series, so I might go back and read the earlier books. The various characters' motivations inspired my curiosity, there were some red herrings along the way, and the end tied everything up reasonably well, if not exactly as I was hoping it would, so this book fulfilled the obligations of a good mystery novel. I listened to the audio, and I actually liked the readers' voices. Definitely a worthwhile listen/read.
mikewa14's review against another edition
4.0
http://0651frombrighton.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-telling-error-sophie-hannah.html
gma2at's review against another edition
2.0
Thanks to Goodreads for sending this First Reads book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
The back cover reads: Nicki Clements has secrets, just like anybody else—secrets she keeps from her children, from her husband, from everyone who knows her. Secrets she shares with only one person: A stranger she's never seen. A person whose voice she's never heard. And then Nicki is arrested for murder. The murder of a man she doesn't know.
Overall I did not enjoy this book, though that is hard to support since I finished it in only a few days. There was a huge piece of mystery to the story that kept me reading, namely I wanted to understand Nicki's past and wanted to see just how her strange life ended up so entwined in this bizarre murder. But her character was so irredeemable, it was almost distracting. Further, no character was relateable for me, even the main detectives in the series who, I assume, I'm supposed to like and root for. And the ending ... so disappointing. Not at all equal to the buildup and the suspense the book tried to create. I also don't know if the reader is supposed to follow the clues and figure this one out, but the clues were sorely lacking.
The back cover reads: Nicki Clements has secrets, just like anybody else—secrets she keeps from her children, from her husband, from everyone who knows her. Secrets she shares with only one person: A stranger she's never seen. A person whose voice she's never heard. And then Nicki is arrested for murder. The murder of a man she doesn't know.
Overall I did not enjoy this book, though that is hard to support since I finished it in only a few days. There was a huge piece of mystery to the story that kept me reading, namely I wanted to understand Nicki's past and wanted to see just how her strange life ended up so entwined in this bizarre murder. But her character was so irredeemable, it was almost distracting. Further, no character was relateable for me, even the main detectives in the series who, I assume, I'm supposed to like and root for. And the ending ... so disappointing. Not at all equal to the buildup and the suspense the book tried to create. I also don't know if the reader is supposed to follow the clues and figure this one out, but the clues were sorely lacking.
ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
4.0
Sophie Hannah writes a series of crime novels whose convoluted plots are matched by the convoluted personal lives of the detectives who solve the crimes. And yet, for the most part, it all works well, and with the ninth book in the series, The Telling Error, Hannah is sure-footed and wields a plot even more complex than usual, featuring a disparate cast of characters and a plot based on internet infidelity.
This was a fun book to read and it’s a pleasure to read a crime novel by an author who’s been writing them for awhile, but who clearly is still enjoying herself. One does need a certain suspension of disbelief in places (the plot and motivations can be stretched at tlmes), but The Telling Error was still tremendously readable.
This was a fun book to read and it’s a pleasure to read a crime novel by an author who’s been writing them for awhile, but who clearly is still enjoying herself. One does need a certain suspension of disbelief in places (the plot and motivations can be stretched at tlmes), but The Telling Error was still tremendously readable.