Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie **

Amber wakes up in the hospital on Boxing Day in a coma. She can't quite remember what happened to her, but she knows it isn't good. She mentally reviews the activities of the past week -- an ultimatum at work, her husband spending time with her sister, a chance encounter with an old flame, maybe a pregnancy -- and thinks back to her childhood diaries. It's immediately apparent that there's something odd about Amber, and the twists start coming about halfway through.

I'm all for unreliable narrators and psychological thrillers, but none of the characters in Sometimes I Lie exhibit recognizable human behavior, not just the THREE who turn out to be psychopaths. And that's before you toss in the imaginary friend, the identity switches, the clueless husbands, and the plethora of murders successfully disguised as accidents.