I would like to thank Netgalley and Pan for an advance copy of The Death of Her, a psychological thriller set in Cornwall.

A woman is found battered and close to death in a maize field. When she comes round she knows her name is Evie and that her 3 year old daughter Angel is missing but that's about it because she has amnesia. The problem is that the police can find no record or proof that Angel exists. When an old school friend of Evie, Charlotte Harrison, identifies her as Jen the plot thickens.

The Death of Her is an interesting read as you can't help but get drawn into Evie's story as she struggles with her lack of memory and police scepticism about Angel's existence as everything points against it but as the story unfolds it gets harder to swallow disbelief at some of the convenient plot twists.

The novel is mostly narrated from Charlotte's point of view but as she is an unpleasant character you have to question her motives for spending time with Evie. This puts the novel firmly in the unreliable narrator camp, another fad I'm not very fond of.

The novel takes a fairly predictable route so I had a pretty good idea of what was to come early on. For me the interest lies in Evie's memories. They are unreliable (that word again) and often contradictory which works against her in the police's eyes. How true this behaviour is is never explained but it's fascinating to watch.

The Death of Her is a solid read and an easy way to while away a few hours.

When Charlotte hears a woman has been attacked in her small Cornish village she doesn’t think too much about it, until she sees a picture of the woman in the newspaper. Identified as Evie, and claiming that her three-year old daughter was taken during the attack, the woman is physically and mentally wrecked. But Charlotte recognizes the woman as Jen, a girl she knew years before. Jen was babysitting for a three year old girl when the child vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. Charlotte agrees to work with police to help them work with “Evie” to see if they can retrieve the woman’s memory. As police search Evie’s home, they find no evidence that a child ever lived there. Is Evie remembering the child she lost years ago instead of her own daughter? And what is Charlotte’s motive, she says she cares, but something about her doesn’t ring true. Told from multiple viewpoints, this thriller is an intricate and fascinating puzzle