Review: Skin Deep

 Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
​Page Length: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 5 April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Ireland
Source: NetGalley

Stars:  4.5 out of 5 

LINKS: Amazon (UK)

ABOUT SKIN DEEP
'Once I had cleared the bottles away and washed the blood off the floor, I needed to get out of the flat.'

Cordelia Russell has been living on the Côte d'Azur for ten years, posing as a posh English woman fallen on hard times. But her luck is running out.

Desperate to escape her grotty flat and grim reality, Cordelia spends a night at a glittering party. Surrounded by the young, beautiful and privileged she feels her age and her poverty.

As dawn breaks she stumbles home through the back streets. Even before she opens her door she can hear the flies buzzing. It hasn't taken long for the corpse in her bedroom to commence decomposing ...

My Review:

Are people born wicked?

Wow - what an amazing story. This was not the book I expected, however it blew me away. It was so much more than a run of the mill psychological thriller.

The story opens with the death of a man, and the book is the rich, detailed, and epic tapestry that is Delia's life as it unravels every moment that leads her living in the French Riviera and to be face-to-face with the unnamed assailant. The story is Interspersed with  island fables told to her by her father, and view points from other characters, Resulting in no stone is left unturned with why and how Cordelia ended up as she did,

Highly recommended.