"If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?"
"Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she’d stopped.
But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby.
The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.
Or the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her… "
I didn't think I could do a better job with the summary of this book, so this is the summary from Goodreads. This book has a slow build, with creeping dread and a steadily increasing pace --- and by the time I was in the last few chapters, I was reading at "whip" speed. Our narrator here is potential very unreliable; after all, she can't quite seem to remember things correctly. The fact that her memory seems to be getting worse throughout the story only adds to the confusion. I appreciated that I was kept off balance and then really loved the big twist that came partway through the book (in addition to another twist towards the end). Definitely a good book for readers who like psychological suspense and being kept on their toes!
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