{"id":844,"date":"2026-05-01T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:49:17","slug":"its-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"It’s not what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clare Mackintosh <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781464266003\u00a0(ISBN10: 146426600X)
ASIN 146426600X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tension and shock I felt at the end of part 1.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever felt that in a book before.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodness by part 4 I was thinking I\u2019d got Jamie all wrong.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Scott has me wondering if I\u2019ve got him wrong.  The twists keep coming.  Just when I think I\u2019m on the right track, another conversation between characters throws a spanner on the works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kath , the well meaning mother in law, seems patronising, too nice.  Pushing Nedeeka towards her ex Scott.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn\u2019t expected the boss to be who he is \u00a0but it makes so much sense.\u00a0 The clean up going unnoticed. \u00a0 If you want information to cover something up then it\u2019s logical to be in the thick of it, hidden in plain sight\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many twists, just when I think I understand what is happening another dead end path is thrown up. I keep expecting things to twist again now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police investigation into Jamie feels intense, as if they are dogs with a bone, whilst his partner is convinced they are wrong and Jamie is an innocent victim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does she really know him that well? He gave up his life to move in with her, he had no possessions, she knew very little about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clare’s research and knowledge\u00a0of police work really flows through this book.\u00a0 References\u00a0to other attack’s in the UK, and the boss going from Mr Nice Guy to an evil monster who is seeking glory at any cost.\u00a0 It is tense and scary. We trust people in authority but if we didn’t who would we trust? This leaves you with some worrying questions about how much people can change and how much evil can lurk in the most innocent of people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn\u2019t expected to hear the stories of Fraser, Lauren and Needkya, my god hearing Frasers thoughts are scary and how even when someone is supposedly broken the confines of evil can still be harvested and grow
The end is worrying explosive\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clare Mackintosh Published March 2026 ISBN 9781464266003\u00a0(ISBN10: 146426600X)ASIN 146426600X The tension and shock I felt at the end of part 1.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever felt that in a book before.\u00a0 Goodness by part 4 I was thinking I\u2019d got Jamie all wrong.   But Scott has me wondering if I\u2019ve got him wrong.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,4,36,37,10,38],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-claire-mackintosh","tag-it-is-not-what-you-think","tag-murder","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}