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If I Were Me
At a traumatic incident PC Charlie Quinlan is injured dragging a boy from a burning car.
During rehab, her memory begins playing tricks on her. A weird series of events combine to increase her confusion. She fears medical retirement if she admits to having memory losses.
A man is murdered. A phone call to Crimestoppers implicates Charlie. She has an alibi which the police investigation can’t break. There is a second murder and another incriminating call.
Charlie is arrested, interviewed and suspended from duty.
The only person who can free her from this nightmare, is herself. But what will she find on the far side of her memory?
During rehab, her memory begins playing tricks on her. A weird series of events combine to increase her confusion. She fears medical retirement if she admits to having memory losses.
A man is murdered. A phone call to Crimestoppers implicates Charlie. She has an alibi which the police investigation can’t break. There is a second murder and another incriminating call.
Charlie is arrested, interviewed and suspended from duty.
The only person who can free her from this nightmare, is herself. But what will she find on the far side of her memory?
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 3, 2022
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May 17, 2023
This is brilliant. You spend the first half of the book wanting to know why a police officer can be implicated in murders when she always miles away at the time and then your mind is left spinning with a brilliant plot twist that takes the second half to a heart-stopping conclusion at a hundreds miles an hour.
I'm hoping that this is not the last we hear of the book's protagonist, Charlie Quinlan. I can't say more: if I told you, I'd have to shoot you.
I'm hoping that this is not the last we hear of the book's protagonist, Charlie Quinlan. I can't say more: if I told you, I'd have to shoot you.
January 27, 2025
It's very hard to review this book without spoilers as so much hinges on things that are revealed throughout!
Definitely recommended, and I am looking forward to reading the next one. Great to know that the author knows what he's talking about from the perspective of the Met too.
Definitely recommended, and I am looking forward to reading the next one. Great to know that the author knows what he's talking about from the perspective of the Met too.
July 31, 2023
I read this book in 2 days, I couldn't put it down! One of the most unique and unexpected stories I have read, I found it fascinating.
August 11, 2024
this was great, really looking fwd to reading the next one
September 16, 2023
My Review…..
Huge thanks to Paul Durston for sending me a copy of If I Were Me to review.
Well I was pretty much gripped from the opening pages of If I Were You, we meet PC Charlie Quinlan arriving at a horrific road traffic incident, involving a fuel tanker, when she arrives on the scene Charlie rescues a young boy, getting herself burnt in the process.
During Charlie’s recovery on sick leave, she starts to have some severe memory loss issues, thinking that they may be down to the stress of the incident and not wanting to let on to her colleagues or counsellor, she tries to ignore them. However things start getting very weird, and the next thing she knows, she’s being questioned about a murder, arrested and suspended from duty!
If I Were Me is a complex and brilliant novel, it took me until about halfway through to workout what was going on with Charlie, but when that is revealed you will love Charlie even more! She is a superb character, a feisty, intelligent, smart, woman with a hidden core that we gradually find out about, during the story.
Fast paced and extremely well written, with an absolute cracking telling of what being a police officer is rally like, this is a pretty unique novel, and one I’ve not really encountered before. Involving mental health and recovery and focusing on how trauma can be the trigger to so many buried memories, and I have to say well done to Paul Durston because this part of the book is obviously well researched and so well written.
I rushed throug If I Were Me in a couple of days and couldn’t put it down, and in fact the story and plot are so all encompassing that I still can’t get it out of my mind! I dearly hope that there will be a second book and that this is the start of a new series!
If you like gritty and hard hittting police thrillers this will be the book for you. A certified 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read! 👏👏
Huge thanks to Paul Durston for sending me a copy of If I Were Me to review.
Well I was pretty much gripped from the opening pages of If I Were You, we meet PC Charlie Quinlan arriving at a horrific road traffic incident, involving a fuel tanker, when she arrives on the scene Charlie rescues a young boy, getting herself burnt in the process.
During Charlie’s recovery on sick leave, she starts to have some severe memory loss issues, thinking that they may be down to the stress of the incident and not wanting to let on to her colleagues or counsellor, she tries to ignore them. However things start getting very weird, and the next thing she knows, she’s being questioned about a murder, arrested and suspended from duty!
If I Were Me is a complex and brilliant novel, it took me until about halfway through to workout what was going on with Charlie, but when that is revealed you will love Charlie even more! She is a superb character, a feisty, intelligent, smart, woman with a hidden core that we gradually find out about, during the story.
Fast paced and extremely well written, with an absolute cracking telling of what being a police officer is rally like, this is a pretty unique novel, and one I’ve not really encountered before. Involving mental health and recovery and focusing on how trauma can be the trigger to so many buried memories, and I have to say well done to Paul Durston because this part of the book is obviously well researched and so well written.
I rushed throug If I Were Me in a couple of days and couldn’t put it down, and in fact the story and plot are so all encompassing that I still can’t get it out of my mind! I dearly hope that there will be a second book and that this is the start of a new series!
If you like gritty and hard hittting police thrillers this will be the book for you. A certified 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read! 👏👏
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