Locked Up Liars by Elle Thorpe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Nothing prepares you for finding your sister’s lifeless body covered in blood.

But when the police arrest her ex, a man I know is innocent, I can’t sit by and do nothing.

Not when I’ve been secretly in love with him for years.

Heath may not want my help, but I won’t take no for an answer.

To catch a killer, I’m forced to take a job at Saint View Prison. Maximum security. The place they send the worst of the worst. 

But it’s not just Heath who doesn’t want me there.

Rowe, the sinfully sexy head guard has made it clear I don’t belong. I’d tell him where to go with my middle finger up, if my skin didn’t prickle with awareness every time he touches me.

And then there’s Liam, hotshot lawyer and my old high school enemy. All that tension and chemistry is still there, burning between us like flames. I need his help, but I’ll be damned if I beg for it.

With every lie we uncover, every secret we expose, the danger mounts.

Until there’s only one thing we know for sure.

The killer is still out there.

And I’m his next target.

Locked Up Liars

Interesting story and characters!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration

The heroine: May – she is a twenty-sever-year-old elementary school teacher. She lives in a nice condo with her sister Jayla, who is a police detective. She has been in love with Heath, her sister’s ex boyfriend since they first got together. Even though they broke up over four years ago, and her sister was well over Heath, May is reluctant to do anything about it. Though after they meet in a bar one night, she feels a connection with him. Heath and May got drunk together and passed out in her room at the condo she shared with Jayla. Though he woke up in Jayla’s room with Jayla next to him with her throat slashed, and he had no memory of what happened or how he got there.

The Heroes:
Heath – he was a stand-up guy who likes to help others, he has a bit of a reputation for rescuing damsels in distress. Heath knows he has had problems with his temper in the past but knew that he didn’t hurt Jayla.
Rowe – he is a guard at Saint View Prison. He knew Jayla through work and just met May at the funeral. He is on a baseball team with Liam.
Liam – he was a star baseball player in high school. He came from a wealthy family and is a well-respected lawyer now. He’d always had a crush on May and was still attracted to her. He doesn’t like the fact that he often has to defend awful criminals, but he made a lot of money doing it.

The Story: There were definitely things about this book that I didn’t like. Heath was being questioned by a cop who was beating him, and he ended up confessing to a crime he knew he didn’t commit. He was actually confessing to something else, but the cops thought he was confessing to Jayla’s murder. I have no respect for anyone so stupid, so he was hard to like after that. I did like May quite a bit though. She believed in education and when she sees a job posting for a prison teacher to help prisoners who want to get their GED, she grabbed the posting and applied for the job several nights a week.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Jarmin Day and Stella Hunter. Stella is one of my favorite female narrators, she is so expressive and natural. She has a great voice. This is my first book narrated by Jarmin Day. He has a deep voice, but it isn’t one of my favorites. He seemed stiff and reminded me of a movie announcer at first. I almost expected him to say, “In a world…”. His voice got better as the book went on. The book was pretty good and ended in a huge cliffhanger.

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