But You Can't Hide

by Jacqueline Chandler

***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK HAS BEEN REISSUED UNDER THE NAME 'DECEPTION'*** If you click on 'Jacqueline Chandler', you will see all books available by that author. Private detective Stuart Finlay is searching for a missing girl. His investigation leads him to Katherine, but nothing matches what he’s been told and it’s clear to him that someone, possibly even his own client, is lying. Convinced Katherine isn't the one, Finlay exhausts all possible leads and discovers that he isn’t the only one looking for this girl. Brutal killers, thinking he has already found his target, hunt him down in a quest for answers. As they start to look at Katherine, Finlay risks everything to stand in their way. He fails. Laden with guilt, he's forced to watch as, bit by bit, Katherine is made to lose everything. He’s desperate to help her, but the killers are holding something over him, something he'll risk dying for in order to protect. If she can’t escape, Katherine may be forced to make the same sacrifice.

404 pages, Paperback

First published December 8, 2012

About the author

I was born in Carleon, Wales, and raised in various cities around the world. The happiest years of my childhood were spent in Hong Kong. I was back in England for my teenage years, but I'm not going to talk about that. I'm assuming you were all teenagers once and can, therefore, understand this. I will say that I started writing around about then though. That was the beginning of ‘Deception’ (previously published as ‘But You Can’t Hide’).

In 1993, I graduated from Kent University in Canterbury and then relocated to Germany in 1995. 'But You Can't Hide’ was published on 8 December 2012. Wanting to know how the story progressed, friends persuaded me to write a sequel. ‘Deadlock’ was published for the first time on 4 November 2014. I love my characters and I love the worlds they inhabit, but I then wanted to try something new - ‘The Darkness of Aysu’ was published on 28 November 2017 . Thanks to various reviews and comments I have received over the years, all three books have been edited and improved, and were re-issued in 2019. At that point, I changed the title of 'But You Can’t Hide' to 'Deception'. I read all my reviews, so thank you to those who have taken the time to do that. It is much appreciated.

There's no stopping me now. This is no longer an unattainable dream, but something I seriously want to pursue. I'm a housewife with a fantastic husband, two wonderful children, occasionally a cat, and (at the time of writing) 12 fish. But there is so much more that goes on inside me that people have no idea about. People see me as a happy, bubbly person.

They have no idea.

If you read my books (and I really hope you do) please be advised that I really am a very happy, well-adjusted person.

Reviews

[SELENE LAKE · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd read it again. Really God book for the price.

A really nicely written suspense by Jacqueline. Although IMO It didn't need 350+ words to tell.
I WILL be buying book two in the series. I have to know what happens between Kat & Stan.
what will Fin do with the information he's holding onto?
Does Brice get what he's looking for?
The author left all these wonderful morsels for the next go around..
BRAVO!
Even with frequent redundant scenes from alternate perspective I still WANTED to keep reading.
I had a few stumbles over sparingly used British slang and one miss placed quotation mark.

[Scott Skipper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Louise, Sarah and Katherine, how many girls were there? Private detective, Fin, short for Finley, took a job to find Louise. His only clues were a photograph, a woman’s name and a general area, but a pro can work with little or nothing. Fin located Katherine—who bore a strong resemblance to Louise—attending school at Kent where his girlfriend’s nephew, Stan, also studied. Stan agrees to ask Katherine, or Kat as she prefers, on a date to try to get Fin some answers to his questions, but as might be expected, he gets romantically involved. Now, enter the bad guys—and they are really bad. Murphy works as a leg breaker for Brice, the loan shark. He grabs Fin and beats enough information from him to also nab Kat and Stan. Then things start to really unravel and little by little we learn the dark secrets of Louise, Sarah and Katherine.

Jaqueline Chandler drags her characters through Hell and back. The action scenes of But You Can’t Hide have enough grit and intensity to raise welts on the reader as much as bruises on the characters. The twists of misfortune are relentless as is the complexity of the plot. The reader is led down a disorienting gallery of blind alleys only to emerge as in the dark as before. This story has it all: suspense, action, pace, strong characters and depth of plot. Once you start reading But You Can’t Hide you won’t stop.

[Ian Butler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good whodunnit, with great twists and turns that make you think all the time. Great read from this new Queen of Crime!