Prime Deception by Carys Jones

I was contacted by the author on Goodreads, to read and review this book via Netgalley, in return for an honest review.

On reading the blurb about the book, I immediately thought it would be something that I wanted to read and accepted the invitation.

The book tells the story of the Deputy Prime Minister, Charles and his affair with one of his interns - Lorna, who tragically commits suicide one day, not long after breaking up with Charles. However, Charles doesn't believe the report and sets about, with Lorna's twin sister, Laurie, to find out what actually happened on that night.

The story started off well. There was lots of build up about Charles' life and some mystery surrounding Lorna's death and then the mysterious appearance of a girl who looks just Lorna, which sets Charles' emotions running high again.

However, the story didn't really do it for me. There was too much too'ing and fro'ing with Laurie being called in Charles' office, and then going back home, to coming back to London, to going back home again. In the end I lost track.

There were also too many flash backs to life with Lorna. There were a whole two chapters, almost, at the beginning of the book in which Charles remembers the affair and what had happened - which was relevant at that point in the story, I just felt it went on for too long. And then there were the flashbacks that Laurie had with her life with Lorna, and it seemed that these were just added as padding, rather than adding any depth.

For me, the suspense wasn't built up enough around Lorna's death and it wasn't until the last chapter that things picked up pace and the real story came out. Which was a good end, one which I didn't see coming but not an overly spectacular one.

I feel that this story had a good premise, but that it was probably written in the wrong time frame. It could have started much earlier on in the affair and been built up much better. However, the writer has potential and her work was well written, just not quite the right story. I do feel though, that this story would make for a good short film or for a television series, as the use of flashbacks could be made more of on TV.