Alice Feeney | HIS & HERS

Plot (via Goodreads):

Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She's worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC's lunchtime news, putting work before friends, family, and her now ex-husband. So, when someone threatens to take her dream job away, she'll do almost anything to keep it.

When asked to cover a murder in Blackdown--the sleepy countryside village where she grew up--Anna is reluctant to go. But when the victim turns out to be one of her childhood friends, she can't leave. It soon becomes clear that Anna isn't just covering the story, she's at the heart of it.

DCI Jack Harper left London for a reason, but never thought he'd end up working in a place like Blackdown. When the body of a young woman is discovered, Jack decides not to tell anyone that he knew the victim, until he begins to realise he is a suspect in his own murder investigation.

One of them knows more than they are letting on. Someone isn't telling the truth. Alternating between Anna's and Jack's points of view, His & Hers is a fast-paced, complex, and dark puzzle that will keep listeners guessing until the very end.

Review:

Alice Feeney is one of those masterful storytellers who will completely captivate you, drag you along a dark and twisty path of a novel, and then blow your mind with the final chapter and His & Hers is no exception. This is actually my favorite novel of Alice Feeney to-date. This one is really darker, deals with a serial killer plot-line, a sensationally written backstory, and three points of views; one from the female main character, one from the male, and one for the killer they are either trying to track down or could possibly be. Between the "case" involved, the media aspect of this one, and the amounts of twists and turns it takes within it's 300 pages, I was feverishly reading this one and yet still had to take multiple breaks just to kind of let this story and these characters sink in.

Feeney wastes no time getting into the grittiness of this story and I was a little taken back with the fact that the female character had a drinking problem and even though I felt that this has been done so much in this genre, the reasoning behind it and how it correlates to the story was really well done and I thought that instead of being something to diminish this story like it has with other titles, it really added another layer that made so much sense once the reveals came in. And let me tell you, I loved these characters! They were so diabolical and vivid, I was just as curious as to what they would do or say next as I was with what would happen with the story.

I honestly don't want to give more away with this story because I think it's intriguing enough to make everyone want to read, but I also think that if you went into this one blindly it would really be a sensationally devilish treat as well.

Special thanks to Flatiron Books for this copy in exchange for my honest review.

Rating: 5/5