Lisa Jewell

And when there's already kind of a darkness in these months, it's much harder to shift the energy.

So, it's like, you know, if you listen to a really dark, like, Lisa Jewell thriller in spring...

And then you finish listening and you go out in the sunshine.

It's much easier to shift that energy than it is if you watch a true crime documentary in the middle of November about a serial killer.

It could have been her.

Could have been her by Lisa Jewell.

And it was fantastic, as always.

Really, really, really good.

So you get Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train in 2015.

Lisa Jewell has written a few of these that are very dark.

Claire McIntosh, very psychological twist.

She's been writing them for 12 years.

It's a darkly funny psychological suspense with the Jersey Gothic energy and mystery of Caitlin Mullen's Heather and the folklore genre blending and ensemble cast of Widow's Bay.

None of this is true by Lisa Jewell would work also for its female friendships blurring into obsession.

As the two women circle each other, the question becomes, who is the predator and who is the prey? Because Mandy isn't the only person to have died.

Someone else from Astrid's past was murdered and only a few days ago.

And I love the Widow's Bay comp too because it's so hot right now and it captures that darkly funny part.

So for me, those are winning comps already.

Lisa Jewell may be too big.

And I think the first two would work for me.

The phrase only really happened two or three years into my career.

It's funny, I was doing an event with Lisa Jewell and we were both asked, how do you feel about being a chiclet writer? And I looked at her and went, I don't know what it is.

You take the question.

She's a super friend of mine and she took the question and I think she spun it on its head and said, oh, what do you mean? And we established we weren't that.

I'm your host, Ellie Mano, age 17, and for the 322nd official episode of Hook of a Book, I'm going to be reviewing a gripping thriller that y'all are not going to be able to put down.

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell.

I have a thing where I kind of like to go in blind to a lot of the thrillers I read.

And when I say blind, I mean I did read the summary on the back of the book, but I didn't know too much about None of This is True before reading.

The book is told in third person, but I'd still say the narrator is unreliable, and there's a lot of information that you don't even figure out until the very end.

And then even at the very end, things are still kind of up in the air in a very interesting way.

Lisa Jewell is a gripping thriller author, and I want to read some of her books that I haven't read yet.

She also wrote Then She Was Gone, which is a book that I think I've heard of before.

I find this so tricky.

I went out and bought like a Lisa Jewell off the back of you guys reading a lot of Lisa Jewell.

And the same thing happened to me.

I bought the second book.

Yeah, I don't know.

And I don't have that ready.

I finished this book and then I'm like, right, what do I feel like? Because I did finish a Lisa Jewell.

Didn't live up to the Lisa Jewells of the past.

I'm Joe Hallow, and wherever you are in the world, it's great to have you with us, and I hope you're happy and healthy wherever you're listening from.

And if you're only just joining us for this series, well, there are lots of episodes to catch up on should you wish, including chats with Elif Shafak, Max Porter, Katherine Rundell, Donal Ryan, Lisa Jewell, Shari Lapena, and many, many more besides.

And today, as ever, I'm joined by two fabulous writers and humans who'll be going head-to-head in a war of the words a little later on.

My first guest started writing when he was 10 years old.

This is something else that I, in all of my thriller binging, have been really adoring in the last, I don't know, handful of years.

A few of my favorites are None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.

Yes.

I mean, I could go on and on.