Today I’m joining the blog tour for Imposter Syndrome. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

‘When you’re living a lie, you find it’s best to avoid close attachments…’

Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress – and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother – Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger…

Bobbie’s brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His car was found parked on a bridge overlooking the Thames, in the early hours of the same morning. Unsettled by Bobbie’s story, and suffering from a rare attack of conscience, Lynch tries to back off.

But when Bobbie leaves for rehab the following day, he finds himself drawn to her luxurious family home, and into a meeting with her mother, the formidable Miranda. Seeing the same resemblance that her daughter did, Miranda proposes she hire Lynch to assume her son’s identity, in a last-ditch effort to try and flush out his killer.

As Lynch begins to impersonate him, dark forces are lured out of the shadows, and he realises too late that Heydon wasn’t paranoid at all. Someone was watching his every move, and they’ll kill to keep it a secret.

For the first time, Lynch is in a life or death situation he can’t lie his way out of.

Review:

I read True Crime Story a few years ago and absolutely loved it, and I was drawn to Imposter Syndrome because of its similarly intriguing premise. It didn’t disappoint and I was hooked by such a compelling plot. It’s often complex but I loved following all the twists and turns and trying to work out how everything had happened and why.

From the beginning,  Lynch is an exciting and intriguing character, and as a first person narrator, I was never quite sure if he was reliable, particularly as he seems to have a somewhat shady past. He is clearly hiding parts of his life from not only other characters, but also the reader, and I wanted to know why. Lynch is surrounded by a strong group of characters who are brilliantly created and I was excited to find out where they would fit into the puzzle.

Joseph Knox pulls no punches in his writing and it’s definitely brutal in places. It’s full of tension, even more so towards the end and I found it very difficult to put the book down.

Imposter Syndrome is available from Amazon.

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