If Something Happens to Me

I just finished If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay and here is my review.

Ryan Richardson has spent 5 years going over what happened that night. The night when his girlfriend Ali was abducted from his car. The feel of the hands pulling him from the car and the pain that filled his head. Ali is presumed dead even without her body and the suspicion is all on Ryan, the last person to have seen her.

Even after he changes his last night and goes to law school, he cannot move past what happened that night. It all comes to a head when Ryan takes a trip to Italy with his class. Not only has Ali's car been found in the lake with 2 dead bodies in it, neither of them hers and a note in her purse in a cypher Ali used.... If something happens to me... is the chilling clue.

Still reeling from that bombshell Ryan then sees a man everyone told him didn't exist... The monster... The man that haunts his dreams... The man who took Ali. Not wanting him to get away Ryan follows him to the UK where things go from bad to worse.

You know when you pick up a Finlay book, you are in for a wild ride and this book did not disappoint. The book is loaded with twists!

The book is written in the present day and the past where we get the story of a mob boss who loses his son when kids bully him at his new school and he commits suicide and the aftermath of it.

Present day includes Ryan and a new deputy to the police force trying to figure out what happened to Ali that night and everyone has their secrets and you never quite know what you can trust. It's brilliant. I loved every single moment.

It makes perfect sense when you get to the end of the book because you never really understand why these stories are connected until that ah-HA moment!

The plot was great and the characters were well rounded. I found myself holding on to the edge of my seat.

Highly recommend this thriller! 4.5 stars

Thank you to @minotaurbooks and @netgalley for my gifted copy

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