Book Review - Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox

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Title: Imposter Syndrome

Author: Joseph Knox

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Transworld Digital

Publication Date: 11th July 2024

Rating: 3 Stars

'When you’re living a lie, you find it’s best to avoid close attachments…’

Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress - and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother - Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger…

Bobbie’s brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His car was found parked on a bridge overlooking the Thames, in the early hours of the same morning. Unsettled by Bobbie’s story, and suffering from a rare attack of conscience, Lynch tries to back off.

But when Bobbie leaves for rehab the following day, he finds himself drawn to her luxurious family home, and into a meeting with her mother, the formidable Miranda. Seeing the same resemblance that her daughter did, Miranda proposes she hire Lynch to assume her son’s identity, in a last-ditch effort to try and flush out his killer.

As Lynch begins to impersonate him, dark forces are lured out of the shadows, and he realises too late that Heydon wasn’t paranoid at all. Someone was watching his every move, and they’ll kill to keep it a secret.

For the first time, Lynch is in a life or death situation he can’t lie his way out of.

Well this was the first book I have read from Joseph Knox, and I'm really undecided how I feel about it. 

I absolutely loved the concept of the book, but at times the plot got so so convoluted that I had no idea who I was meant to be believing, or just what on earth was being suggested. 

I finished this a few days before I tried to write this review, and even mulling things over in my mind I'm still confused.  I wasn't totally sure about just about anyone's motivations. 

That being said I liked Lynch. He was honest about being a con man, and he went above and beyond what he was originally asked to do for Bobbie's family. He was determined to find out the truth about what happened to Heydon, a man he looks strikingly similar to, and I commend him for that, especially once it was clear he was putting his life into danger. 

And the dynamics of Bobbie and Heydon's family interested me, but again I just wasn't completely sure who to trust. 

This was slightly unsettling, definitely very readable, and despite the confusion I did think I enjoyed it. I would certainly give the author another go, if another of his titles catches my eye in the future, as I suspect some of my slight issue with this book, was that I was fairly tired while reading which may have affected all of my comprehension at times - either that or it really was fairly convoluted at times.  I'll leave that for you to decide! 

Thank you to Transworld Digital and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.