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Lisa Jewell

We've read and reviewed Lisa Jewell's thriller and mystery book It Could Have Been Her on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.

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It Could Have Been Her

by Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell sends a stray terrier and a missing teenager to unlock a house with a twenty-five-year-old body count, and the dual-timeline plotting is tight enough to reward careful readers without insulting them.