Review: Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

Blurb from Goodreads:

The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal returns with a new psychological thriller about a politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home.

As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, she finds the glare of the spotlight unnerving, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats, and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. As a woman, she knows her reputation is worth its weight in gold, but as a politician, she discovers it only takes one slip-up to destroy it completely.

Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected--but then the unthinkable happens: A man is found dead in Emma’s home, a man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.

 I was expecting to be thrilled by this and I was in a way . . . but most of the book actually takes place during a trial.  I am a trial lawyer so I thought this part would be interesting but it was a bit too emotional. I did enjoy this but I thought it could have been so much better for lack of a better description. I hope you have better luck!

Reputation comes out next week on July 5, 2022 and you can purchase HERE.  

The body lay at the bottom of the stairs. An untidy heap in this house that had been gentrified beyond all recognition. A jumble of clothes just waiting to be tidied away. His trouser leg had ridden up, and his ankle gleamed under my iPhone's flashlight. I couldn't bear to look at his face, turned away as if refusing to acknowledge that something like this could have happened to him.