Book review: Well plotted and pacey, None of This is True is a real thriller

In the corner of crime writing marketed as domestic noir, the reader’s interest attention is predicated on unbelievable things happening to believable characters. We have to be familiar with the origins of the settings and situations, even as we know they are being escalated entirely outside the limits of our own experience. If writing domestic suspense is a complex conjuring trick, Lisa Jewell’s excellent new psychological thriller None Of This Is True is a magician’s ...