Thank you Amazon Publishing UK and NetGalley for this book 
This was the first book I have read by Lisa Gray and it won't be the last, although I didn't realise this one was in a series. 
A good story which kept moving but I did find at times some of it annoying when the character of Rue I thought intentionally kept forgetting things.  
The story kept me gripped but was a little predictable in places but the end was ok,.

Well written, well developed storyline, good pace, interesting from start to finish.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the access to this book.  This is my honest review.  All opinions are my own.

This is one intense, twisted, dark and addictive novel! Not only is this a very well-written book with wonderfully-interesting characters, but the suspense builds at just the right pace as the story unfolds. Compulsive, gripping and horrifying! Will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Leading a quiet life working low-level cases in a Californian desert community, private investigator Jessica Shaw can't resist when a death row inmate, Rue Hunter's sister asks Jessica for help. Rue doesn't remember what happened that night 30 years ago when her 2 best friends at high school were killed. Rue confessed at the time, but now she feels doubtful of her memories.

I'm a big fan of detective/police procedural books and this one was very good. The story was thrilling and the characters were intriguing. The only negative I found was the multiple POVs. I'm not a fan of multiple POVs. Overall, a very enjoyable and satisfying read.

Bad Memory is book 2 of the Jessica Shaw series. I'm reading this author for the first time, but I didn't have any issues with not starting the series with the 1st book. I give this book 4.5 stars. Thanks to Netgalley and Amazon Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book.

Interesting book with lots of twists and turns keeping you reading till the end. The main character private investigator was like a dog with a bone.

This is the second novel in a series that features Jessica Shaw.

Rue Hunter is in prison for double murder. She is due to be executed in a week. Her sister Rose hires Private Detective Jessica Shaw to investigate the crime that happened thirty years ago. Rue was charged with killing her best friend and her boyfriend. But Rue can't remember killing them.

This was an excellent mystery. The author drops enough clues throughout the book to keep you guessing. I love a book told from different points of view.  I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book for an honest review.

I just want to clarify that I started reading Bad Memory 6 months ago, and due to life getting in the way, I have only just picked it up again and finished it. Because of this, my review might not be quite as detailed as I’d like. 
However, my fear when I started to continue this story was that I’d have forgotten what I’d read, but that wasn’t the case - I picked up where I left off so easily, and that’s down to it being such a gripping and brilliantly written plot.

There are some fantastic twists throughout the second half of this book. I didn’t see any of them coming.
I was satisfied with how all the loose ends were tied up, and really enjoyed how the story really came together and had a much more pleasing ending than I expected.

This was the first book I had read by author Lisa Gray, but I will definitely look out for her other work.
Fantastic read - thank you.

This is just the read I needed, and honestly wish I got to it earlier.  I have been reading a lot of heavy/emotional books and this was a nice break from what I had been reading.  I guess this is 2nd in series of Jessica Shaw books. I did not read the first book, and it is not essential to reading this book.  I did enjoy the book enough that I will read the first one eventually.  This is the story of Private Investigator Jessica Shaw getting a case that from a sister of a woman who is on death row for murders she was convicted of as a teenager.  Her sister wants to know what happens.  This is a story full of twists and turns.  A easy and entertaining read for people who like me like crime mysteries.  Overall good book that kept my interest.  Thanks to Netgalley for the ecopy in exchange for my honest review.

Bad Memory is the second installment in the Jessica Shaw series by Lisa Gray. Jessica is a PI working in the small desert town, Hundred Acres, in California. She works for a small PI office for Ed Crozier, the town Pi who has been working forever, and the firm does mostly small jobs like missing persons and unfaithful spouses. However, Rose Dalton, sister of Rue Hunter comes to Jessica to ask her to find out if her sister really committed two gruesome murders 30 years prior. At the time of the murders, Rue confessed to the murders of her two best friends after hours of pressure from local detectives – she had been on drugs and drunk to the point that she couldn’t remember what happened that night. She has now spent 30 years in prison. Her execution is scheduled to take place in a matter of days, and Jessica cannot turn down the money offered to look into the case. Everyone in the small town is sure Rue is guilty, and friends of Jessica, including her mentor Jason Pryce, a well-respected detective, are furious that she would take the case.

As Jessica investigates, she opens up town secrets that have been covered up or forgotten. Her life is now in danger, and she must be careful. While Rue has nightmares from the past, her nightmares don’t give definitive answers. Like a good thriller, there are plenty of twists and turns, as well as a surprising dénouement. Suspense starts to build in the prologue and continues throughout the novel.

Gray is a good writer and the story is fascinating; this story will keep readers on the edges of their seats. She is also good at developing her characters. Most readers, however, want a protagonist that they can look up to – one that is upstanding, albeit a rule breaker and risk taker when necessary, and one that can do a little more than most regular people. While Jessica is an excellent PI, she is basically trailer trash. She drinks a lot (actually every day and spends a lot of time in bars), smokes cigarettes, and has a full sleeve tattoo on her right arm, as well as piercings. This is not the type of hero most readers want. She also uses a lot of profanity. 

This is a series, but most readers may not want to read the subsequent novels because it’s hard to relate to or like someone who is so different from most of us. Readers who like a good story and aren’t bothered by a classless protagonist with a dirty mouth may enjoy this book as well as the entire series.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Second book I’ve read by Lisa Gray and I really enjoyed it. Love whodunnit/mystery books like this. Kept me guessing until the end. I love how fast paced it was and then how it just exploded at the end. A must read if you like anything with twists and turns.

I’m not sure why I took a chance on this second book in the series when I found the first one rather blah. I guess I hoped there would be improvements to pacing and structure and character development, but unfortunately this one was even worse than the first. I struggled through it and generally found all of the characters to be unlikeable, the dialogue unrealistic, and the plot flimsy. There were several points where a keen-eyed editor was needed including typos and one bizarre reference to “prohibition looming” which doesn’t even make any sense because the book takes place in the United States and bounces back and forth between the late 1980s and present day, both of which are incredibly far removed from Prohibition, which occurred 1920-1933. There were also a couple instances where something involving government procedure did not happen at all realistically and one of the characters would say something along the lines of, “even though it usually takes weeks to process the paperwork, I had it the next day.” Haha, what. Okay. Little things like that really threw me right out of the story and made me question the book, the author, and my own sanity. (Though, to be fair, I was reading an ARC, so it’s possible some of the issues I saw were fixed before final publication.) Even if some of these issues got fixed in the final version, it was still a slog to get through.

I decided to read this book because I loved the first Jessica Shaw book, Thin Air. I felt the different POVs added to the story. I would recommend this book and the other Jessica Shaw stories. I will now look for more by Lisa Gray.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.   Thank you NetGalley.

Overall, Bad Memory was an interesting read.   It was a tad predictable at times, but outside of that, I enjoyed this book.   I will definitely read more books by this author.

Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter—a convicted murderer whose execution is days away—Jessica can’t resist the offer.
Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she’s guilty. As Jessica looks for answers, she finds that local rumors point one way and evidence points another. And nobody wants to face the truth. Meanwhile, Jessica can’t shake the feeling that someone is stalking her—now more than ever, she knows she can’t trust anyone.
As Jessica digs deeper, she encounters local secrets in unlikely places—including the police department itself. But the clock is ticking, and Jessica must find the truth fast—or Rue’s bad memory may be the death of them both.

This is a brilliant read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believeable.
Great suspense and action with wonderful world building that adds so much to the story.
Very thrilling read and I hope there is more to come of these.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher.  This is my own honest voluntary review.

Another great Lisa Gray novel. I really enjoyed this one. I found it exciting, thrilling and a bit disturbing at times. Thank you Net Galley for the ARC, I will be recommending this one to my friends!

I requested a e-copy of this from Netgalley solely based on the fact it was by Lisa Gray and apart of the Jessica Shaw series. I blazed through this book once I had time to read it. I read 50% of it in one day. As I read this story I did not see part of the ending coming, which to me helps make a good thriller.

This book follows Jessica Shaw PI with a new case. Rue Hunter is on death row for a murder that happened. Her sister though has always questioned whether Rue really did kill her two best friends because it seems so out of character of her sister. Rue too now is wanted to know for sure whether or not she truly did with only a week to go before she is executed. As Jessica investigates she's finding more and more pieces to the puzzle that show small town too have their own problems and possibly cover ups.

I quite enjoyed this one. Even though it was book 2 of a series and I hadn't read book 1 I didn't think that this detracted too badly from the story. It felt like the book was a bit overly long during the middle section although this was made clear at the end when everything started to tie up. There were a lot of references to coffee!

I thought this book was okay. I thought the outcome was easy to figure out.  I liked the way the story went backwards and forwards in time.  The heading for each chapter made the timelines easy to follow.

I read this book straight after finishing Thin Air, the first in the series.  Both books were excellent, well written with interesting characters.  I love reading books about strong female-driven characters and this series doesn't disappoint with Jess Shaw as the protagonist.  In Bad Memory, Jessica is commissioned to investigate the case of a convicted murderer who is days away from execution, has Jessica bitten off more than she can chew?  I cannot praise this series enough

One question - Why did she ever wait so long?
We may never know the answer but the plea to find the truth may have needed plenty of time to sort out fact from fiction especially in this small town.
Guilt v Innocence - What ever happened to the idea of 'based on the preponderance of evidence' and 'everyone deserves a chance to defend themselves in a court of law?'
It seems more and more these days we are seeing innocent people being locked up on death row for crimes they never committed and worse still they can't get appealed or heard without some type of 'celebrity or presidential' involvement. Why?
In Bad Memory it's all about suppression of the mind and how each character has a specific role to play but that doesn't always lead to murder and Jessica is determined to get to the bottom of this mess.
She must because lives are on the line including her own.
It's crazy the things people do to hide from the truth but in the end the truth shall set you free.
I've always noted you can run but you can't hide and that is never more fitting than right here.
The entire money at the root of all evil and the hiring out to find the truth is perfect.
A great new read by the one and only Lisa Gray.