Right after I finished Liar, I listened to The Mistake.

From the publisher’s summary:

You think you know the truth about the people you love.

But one discovery can change everything…

Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later, he is found dead.

Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy’s death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother?

Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life. But one day Ronnie falls ill, and Rose goes next door to help him… and what she finds in his attic room turns her world upside down.

Rose thought she knew the truth about what happened to Billy. She thought she knew her neighbour. Now the only thing she knows is that she is in danger…

I didn’t enjoy The Mistake quite as much as  I liked Liar, but I still enjoyed it.  What it did well was make me absolutely detest one of the characters. But there was a tragicness to this book and a number of characters in it  that made me sad. It certainly shows how one event can change peoples’ lives forever. I think the only reason I didn’t enjoy this one as much is that I felt sorry for the ultimate villain, and I’m not sure that was intended.

Still, I’ve downloaded other of Slater’s books because I like the way she reveals the characters’ motivations and develops the plot.  Thrillers are hard to talk about  for fear of giving anything away- so  I apologize for the brevity of the reviews. But if you like thrillers, put Slater on your list.  This was another that I listened to, and again, I think Lucy Price-Lewis does an excellent job with narration.