Sleeping Dogs Lie by Samantha Downing
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Scare Factor: 💀| Plot: 📕📕📕| Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Length: 🎧 02:08:00 | Genre: Thriller | POV: Dual
Dates Read: 04.30.24 – 04.30.24



✴✴✴ TW: Murder ✴✴✴


🕊️ ➞ Tropes:

🕵🏻Whodunit🕵🏻
❓👤Red Herring👤❓
🚫Trust No One 🚫
🫨🧠Psychological Thriller 🧠🫨
💅🏻 Revenge Plot 💅🏻
👹😵‍💫Crazed Motive😵‍💫👹



🕊️ ➞ Synopsis:

From the internationally best-selling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead.

Shelby works as a dog walker in Northern California, and she’s just finished up her biweekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner—Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company—dead on the bathroom floor. As a detective interviews Shelby, a medical examiner inspects the body, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.



🕊️ ➞ My Thoughts:

Sleeping Dogs Lie was one of those few reads where the narrator/protagonist was also the antagonist. Planning this whole facade and identity of a dogwalker just to “rescue” a dog was craaazy! She didn’t even keep the dog, she rehomed Pluto. 🤣I honestly think I’m happy she got away with it. I love a good vigilante.

If you need a quick thriller to listen to, give Sleeping Dogs Lie a try! If you’re read it, leave a comment below! 🙂

xo,

L.B.

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