Title: Imposter Syndrome

Author: Joseph Knox

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: Doubleday

Publication Date: 11th July 2024

Rating: 5/5

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Summary:

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 was fascinated by the premise of Imposter Syndrome and I also love thrillers about con artists so I was excited to read this one. It was every bit as good as I’d hoped – razor sharp, witty, fast paced and furiously addictive. We are thrown into the life of Lynch and suddenly caught up in a web of secrets, lies and danger. Imposter Syndrome is unlike anything else I’ve read and, this being my first book by Knox, I have to say that I adore his style. There is a sort of off kilter sharpness that I really enjoyed and that worked perfectly in this high stakes cat and mouse game Lynch finds himself in.

Imposter Syndrome is also brilliantly clever – I had no idea where it was headed at any given moment and the characters are fabulously complex and unpredictable. Lynch may be a criminal of sorts but he’s also funny, strangely likeable and quick witted in a way that makes each twist and turn of the enigmatic plot utterly gripping. I loved reading this book from the first page to the last and cannot wait to read more from this fantastic author. Original, propulsive and darkly, ingeniously, compelling, I highly recommend Imposter Syndrome – it totally delivers in every way.

★★★★★

Thank you so much to Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours for inviting me on this tour and organising it. I kindly received a copy of the book from the publisher. My review is entirely my own honest opinion.

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