Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah (2014)

I should have stopped when I realized this book was compared to Gone Girl, which I stopped reading, and The Girl on the Train, which I finished, but felt very disconcerted being in this woman's mind. Once again, I did not want to be in Nicki Clements' mind, who had a hard childhood and became a constant liar. She gets pulled in as a suspect the murder of vicious columnist Damon Blundy because she avoids the road check by his house after the murder, though she has never met the man. She has her secrets - online affairs and more - but loves her family - husband and two kids. Very disconcerting to be in her mind. But much of the book is about the other characters surrounding the Blundy murder, so I did want to find out who finally killed him in that bizarre manner. I found myself agreeing with one colorful character's eccentric explanation of relationships. I liked the Detective Simon Waterhouse and his wife Officer Charlie Zeiler, so I may try something else in their series, but not for a while. 

In the olden days - 15-20 years ago or so - communication between people would have been depicted with letters and phone calls. In today's world, it is emails and Twitter comments. What didn't work in the audio book was hearing all the headers to these. If I was reading, I would jump over those, maybe note the date and time, and get to the message. In audio, they read it all and it was hard to focus on the conversation.

(The US version of this book came out in 2015).