Mine

I requested this book after seeing lots of glowing recommendations about it. Very gripping with lots of twist and turns

Thank you to Netgalley, JL Butler and Harper Collins for my ARC of Mine.

Publication Date: 26th June 2018

This was a great psychological thriller. Truly trippy! Francine Day has built her reputation up piece by piece. Coming from a Northern town with a Comprehensive school education she's had to fight to gain respect from her colleagues in chambers and to save enough money for her tiny flat in the area of the city she wanted to live. When she meets the devastatingly handsome and devastatingly rich Martin Joy, when she is asked to represent him during his divorce, she goes against everything she believes in and falls in love with him.

Francine becomes obsessed with Martin's relationship with his ex wife, after she follows them back to their house, Francine mixes alcohol with her medication and the next thing she's woken up in her neighbours apartment, covered in blood with no recollection of what happened. Then she receives some terrible news, Donna, Martin's ex wife has gone missing and Martin is the main suspect.

This story dragged me along at a super fast pace, particularly in the last half of the book. I had no idea who to suspect but I did guess it in the last few chapters and it left me reeling! I liked Francine's character but she was very untrustworthy and unreliable as a narrator.

I'd definitely recommend this book for fans of Kathryn Croft.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we do deceive and how quickly it can spiral downwards out of control taking careers, friends and your dignity with it. A sizzling story of betrayal, blackmail and greed that has you reading faster and faster as the climax of the story is reached. Liars and friends, but how do you tell one from the other, the ones you want to believe need you to get them out of the frame. A great read that will stay in the memory for a long time, every loose end is tied up - nothing left unanswered in this complete story with some really lovely descriptive writing.

Wonderful, page turner of a book. Mystery, intrigue and suspense in spades. I would not expect anything less from this accomplished author. Next book soon please ...

Mine by JL Butler a five-star read that you will want to claim. This was a thrilling and suspenseful read, be warned you won’t want to put this down once you start reading it, so don’t start it before bed or else you will be mainlining coffee the next day!! Francine Day is a string character, she has fought hard for what she has, a great career but she is lacking something, but will that be the thing that breaks her. The legalese in the story was well done and understandable, the whodunnit aspect was great, if you guess then you are need to be looking into a career as a detective. This is one of the best gritty dark reads that you will read this year. It’s one I know I will be buying my mum as she loves this type of story.

A brilliant psychological novel, full of suspense and well developed characters. A divorce lawyer meets a client, there is intense attraction and although against the rules, she gets involved, which leads to many twists. A gripping page turner and a highly recommended read.

Great story with twist i didn't see coming. Some great characters who gave me those "what were you thinking" moments about their behaviour and responses!! Really loved the book and topic. Well written and researched. Will definitely be looking for more books by this author. Thank you for writing a great book and letting me review it x

This had me hooked from the first page! It's starts off with Francine being hired as a divorce lawyer to Martin ,handsome rich ,there is a instant connection between them which quickly escalates into something more,which is against the rules as far as Francine is concerned. You just don't get involved with your client without losing everything...which almost was the case. Throw in a missing wife and you have the perfect who done it with so many twists and turns that you really don't know who is the villain or victim.
One thing that frustrated me was the ending! So much left unsolved. It could have carried on a few more chapters!

mine by j. l. butler.
Francine Day is a high flying lawyer about to apply for silk, ambitious and brilliant. She just needs one headline grabbing client to seal her place as queen's counsel … Martin Joy. The attraction is instant. Obsessive.
They embark on a secret affair and Francine thinks she can hold it together. But then Martin's wife goes missing. And Martin is the prime suspect. Francine is now his lawyer, lover and the last person to see Donna Joy alive.
As the case unravels so does Francine.
a fantastic read. Loved the story and the characters. 5*.

Francine as the lead character is brilliant, confused as to her part to play in the disappearance of her boyfriends soon to be ex wife. Made worse by her being his lawyer and her bipolar condition.
Then there is martin with his lies and sometimes erratic behaviour.
Her best friend Clare hiding her own resentments.
Then their is the secretive Alex and Sophie cole.
The story spins so manybwebs you don't know where it leads you and are forever guessing though never right.
An engrossing, and thrilling read.

An excellent whodunit with plenty of plot twists. The legal background was well researched and the detailed locations were well described - making the whole story very believable. I thought I had guessed the outcome but was mistaken and the denouement was better than I expected. I was able to devour this in two sittings and thoroughly enjoyed it

I LOVED this book! Poor Francine is in danger of losing everything for love - her job, her friends, her pride and her integrity. I thought this book was well written, with lots of red herrings thrown in along the way and the characters were all realistic and likeable, in their own way. I would highly recommend this book.

This has got to be my favourite thriller of the year. 5* plus is not enough. It is true how it was defined, Apple Tree Yard meets Fatal Attraction. It is so good, I read it in a day, and there was such a lot to get your teeth into. I really liked the characters and the vulnerability of Francine, Martin with his multi billion pound business and all the other characters thrown together makes a heady combination of lust, greed and plotting. The plot was very very clever. As an avid reader I couldn’t work it out who’d done what, and just when I’d got it all together, the rug is pulled out from underneath me. I did feel for Francine as Martin was the Love of her life, she was completely and utterly overwhelmed and spellbound by him and was swept along with all the clandestine assignations and the excitement.

I just can’t praise this enough and i would like to thank you the author and netgalley for the ARC.

This is bound to be a Summer best seller. It has all the ingredients - a female barrister on the way up, advising a handsome and rich husband seeking a divorce.

The inevitable happens and soon they are enmeshed in an affair as well as in a murder mystery in which nothing is quite as it seems.

The writing is excellent, the plot well thought through and clever and the action takes hold of you from the opening chapter.

An excellent psychological thriller that is sure to do well - and fully deserves to do so!

Almost finished this book and find it hard to put down. An interesting main character who is very successful and bi polar....an unusual slant on a thriller.