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Before I Find You

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I really enjoyed the book. Loved the story plot and twists. Approachable characters, realistic situations. Some descriptions or story „fillers” were tiny bit too long, but in overall - very good book and I’d read more by the author. Thank you, great job!

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This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

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I would recommend this story to all thriller lovers. This book took me by surprise. It kept me interested throughout the story and I needed to see what was going to happen. I truly enjoyed the pacing of the story and the well-written characters.

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I found this book to be a bit predictable, it’s unusual for me to not finish a book but I’m sorry but I did not finish this one.

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Before I Find You by Ali Knight is a very twisted family drama/psychological thriller that is thoroughly enjoyable.

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I read this book but I can't remember too much of the story. However I do recall finding some of the plot points a little predictible

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I am in charge of the senior library and work with a group of Reading Ambassadors from 16-18 to ensure that our boarding school library is modernised and meets the need of both our senior students and staff. It has been great to have the chance to talk about these books with our seniors and discuss what they want and need on their shelves. I was drawn to his book because I thought it would be something different from the usual school library fare and draw the students in with a tempting storyline and lots to discuss.
This book was a really enjoyable read with strong characters and a real sense of time and place. I enjoyed the ways that it maintained a cracking pace that kept me turning its pages and ensured that I had much to discuss with them after finishing. It was not only a lively and enjoyable novel but had lots of contemporary themes for our book group to pick up and spend hours discussing too.
I think it's important to choose books that interest as well as challenge our students and I can see this book being very popular with students and staff alike; this will be an excellent purchase as it has everything that we look for in a great read - a tempting premise, fantastic characters and a plot that keeps you gripped until you close its final page.

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A cracking thriller, plenty of tension and twisty plot, engaging characters, and well written. Highly recommended.

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Maggie is a private investigator who mainly deals with cheating partners, she’s successful and has a growing business in the centre of London. Helene Moreau is married to Gabe a very wealthy property developer, who she suspects, has been having an affair. Helene hires Maggie after seeing a private and intimate exchange in a cloak room between Gabe and a blond in a green dress. Maggie and her team, Simona and Rory, began their investigations and set up a 24hr watch on all Gabe’s comings and goings. Despite such in-depth work In the beginning they only clue they discover is that Gabe has a second phone no one knows about. Maggie informs Helene, in her experience, this means they Gabe most definitely has something he’s hiding from her. . Helene is Gabe’s second wife, his previous wife died in a tragic accident, leaving Gabe a widower with a small daughter to bring up alone. Alice has just finished her degree and has just started as an intern in her father’s business, learning the ropes from the bottom up.
This is a fabulous psychological thriller told through the voices of the three female characters, Maggie, Helene and Alice. This is the first Ali Knight book I’ve read and could not put it down. The writing is fast paced and thoroughly gripping with the story unfolding into directions I was not expecting which only added to the enjoyment. I thoroughly recommend this book and will most definitely be catching up on previous novels from this author, whilst eagerly awaiting her next.

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This book started slowly but with the immediate knowledge that something big was going to happen. The storyline alternates between Maggie, Helene and Alice's POVs which gives us further insights into their perspectives and I love that in a book. There was one massive twist that I did not see coming, and I usually guess correctly but, I was shocked!

I found Before I Find You to be a slow burner and it took a while to get to the heart of the story but it was worth waiting for in the end.

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This book was a fast read and I enjoyed it very much. There is a lot of secrets, and all gets unraveled throughout the book.
It is well-written and recommended.

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Doubt is a disease and once it's taken hold in your tissues, in your heart, nothing can stop it mutating and expanding until it destroys everything you know and love. Everything.

Helene leads the perfect life she is the wife of the rich and successful, not to mention, handsome Gabe Moreau and step mother to Alice until she sees something that makes her doubt what she has.

Maggie is a no nonsense private investigator capitalising on doubt and catching out cheaters, who takes on the case of finding out what Gabe Moreau is hiding.

Alice is the daughter who tragically lost her mother when she was small she loves her father fiercely and doubts he can do no wrong, until she finds the notes.

This is a well written page turner with lots of twists and turns and an ending I never seen coming.

Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the ARC

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What a story! Totally absorbing psychological thriller- I loved it!! Well written, plenty of twists and turns. I thought I had the ending sussed but I was mistaken. It would make a great film.

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Oh my god I totally loved this book. So the story is Helene thinks her husband is having an affair and seeks out a private detective agency to find snoop on him and get evidence for her, when it began nobody thought it would end up with someone being murdered!

So in comes Maggie who’s the detective who is now trailing Helene's husband. The story is centred around the “other woman” and it had lots of secrets and lies, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it as nothing is quite how it seems to be and a few red herrings are thrown in there to catch you out!

So yeah a great little read and one to keep you turning the pages for sure, looking forward to more from the author.

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Before I Find You starts with a dramatic event, and we then focus on the events leading up to that before coming to the present.
We follow Maggie, a private detective who prides herself on her 100% success rate in finding guilty partners...but she’s hiding a secret or two. She’s hired by Helene, a wealthy woman who suspects her entrepreneur husband of having an affair. The husband, Gabe, is certainly hiding something but they can’t work out what.
Initially I found the story rather drawn out. Setting up the scenario took longer than it needed to, and there were few hints to prepare us for some of the key moments.
I was quite drawn into the scenario once it got going - I was convinced Helene knew more than was initially revealed. I didn’t find the character of Maggie particularly appealing, and it wasn’t until much later that she became someone I felt very invested in. I was totally unprepared for the ending having quite the outcome it did.
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this prior to publication.

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I really enjoyed this book. It has great main characters and a really good story line. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

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I knew from the first page that I was going to like this book, particularly Maggie. She is a no-nonsense private investigator who specialises in catching out cheating husbands and makes no apologies for it, boasting she has a 100% success rate, especially with honeytraps. The twists and turns keep coming and I loved the way we knew from the first page that at least one person was going to end up dead, and possibly Maggie herself. A definite page-turner.
Many thanks to Netgalley/Ali Knight/Hodder & Stoughton for a digital copy of this title. All opinions expressed are my own.

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This was a book that I got into straight away and I liked that each entry told you whose account it was and when it was from. It was easier to follow that way. The writing style was good and descriptive, the story flowed and was set in London.

Maggie was a Private Investigator and had been doing the job quite a few years. She owned her own agency which was called the Blue and White Agency. Any job might be considered and there had been a few over the years.

Helene suspected her husband Gabe of cheating so went to see Maggie about using her services to find out her she was.

Alice, Gabe's daughter, started as an intern at her fathers firm GWM and took a real interest in all that was going on there. She uncovered a note 'you owe me, I'm not going away' under a pile of paperwork in his office, she quickly took a picture with her phone then recovered it. Who was the note from? What was going on? She intended finding out.

This book starts with a cliffhanger then goes back a few weeks leading up to the event in diary like instalments from the 3 ladies. A blow by blow account which is quite chilling by the end. An exciting story that builds up speed as it moves along. Lots of suspicion and intrigue in this book but it becomes clear in a very chilling way. Very cleverly written. I was well hooked at the end to find out how it ended. Was well surprised. Didn't see it coming.

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Meet THE HUSBAND WATCHER - Maggie Malone. She is a Private Investigator, or a 'sex detective' as she likes to say. She'll find out if he's cheating on you. And you'll pay her to do it. Helene Moreau can certainly afford to pay.

Before I find You alternates between the viewpoints of the main characters and starts off as a page turner, loses itself midway through and then picks up towards the end. The characters are fairy 2D and is pretty far fetched in places.

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A tangled web of lies and dark family secrets are aplenty in this twist-turny psychological thriller. Maggie Malone of the Blue and White detective agency is hired by Helene to investigate her cheating property developer husband Gabe. Nobody is quite who they seem in this tale of murder and lies. Told from three perspectives, you will not see the shocking finish coming.

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