The protagonist in If She Were Dead by J.P. Smith is Amelie, a divorced author having an affair with Ben, a married man. However, when she thinks “Amelie and Ben. And Janet. One of them has to go,” it sounds like a line from one of her books and you see that Amelie’s boundary between fiction and reality is disappearing. The story unfolds as if Amelie is writing another of her best-selling novels, except the characters are real people. We discover that the other characters may have secrets, too, and it becomes hard to tell who is stalking whom or how it all will end. A little slow in places, but overall entertaining. Here are excerpts from three reviews in Book Marks, two positive and one mixed:
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