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I Told You This Would Happen Paperback – July 12, 2022

by Elaine Murphy (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
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Elaine Murphy is back with a new thriller that will leave fans of Darcey Bell, B.A. Paris, and Samantha Downing utterly reeling.

 

Carrie’s sister is dead.

Four months after losing her sister, Becca—a serial killer unknown to everyone else in their town—Carrie Lawrence is finally free of her manipulative clutches. From now on, she’s keeping her hands clean, no more hiding dead bodies in the middle of the night, no more lies.

She’s never been happier.

Then she attends a meeting of the Brampton Kill Seekers, a group of amateur local sleuths, and learns that a recent victim left behind a note that incriminates her in their disappearance. All of a sudden, the quiet, law-abiding life she’s been planning starts to unravel.


She’s never had so much to lose.

In her frantic quest to keep her secret dead and buried, she discovers someone nefarious lurking in the shadows…someone who’ll go to any lengths to bring her dark truths to light. Now if Carrie wants her secrets to stay hidden, she’ll have to get her hands very, very dirty.

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"Murphy sensitively explores the bonds of sisterhood amid all the murder and mayhem. Those looking for an offbeat serial killer thriller will have fun."

―Publishers Weekly on Look What You Made Me Do

“Good versus evil has never been so twisted or deliciously cunning. I stayed up all night to see how it ended.” 

―Alessandra Torre, New York Times bestselling author, on Look What You Made Me Do

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Elaine Murphy is a Canadian author who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. Among other things, she has volunteered in Zambia, taught English in China, and jumped off a bridge and out of an airplane. She has a diploma in Writing for Film & Television but has never worked in either field. Instead she took an interest in the dark side and began plotting suspense and thrillers. She enjoys putting ordinary people in extraordinarily difficult situations and seeing what they do about it. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
 
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 12, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538722062
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538722060
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.15 x 8 inches
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    4.1 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

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Elaine Murphy is a Canadian author who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. Among other things, she has volunteered in Zambia, taught English in China, jumped off a bridge, and out of an airplane. She has a diploma in Writing for Film & Television, but has never worked in either field, and eventually took an interest in the dark side and began plotting suspense and thrillers. She enjoys putting ordinary people in extraordinarily difficult situations, and seeing what they do about it. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Poorly executed with a ludicrous plot.
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Poorly executed with a ludicrous plot.
I Told You This Would Happen is the follow up to Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy. The story starts 4 months after Carrie Lawrence loses her sister Becca, a narcissistic serial killer, to another serial killer called Footloose (rolls eyes). She feels like she's finally free, because she doesn't have to help her sister hide bodies in the middle of the night anymore. After attending a meeting for the Brampton Kill Seekers, a group of amateur sleuths, she realizes that her secrets are at risk of being revealed because she's not innocent to at least one murder. A series of events to keep herself from being implicated causes her to become even more guilty. Elaine Murphy seamlessly blends background information from the first book into I Told You This Would Happen. I honestly felt like I wasn't missing out by not reading Look What You Made Me Do. However, Carrie and Becca's toxic relationship is the only thing that kept me reading. It attempted to show how familial obligation can take over a person's whole life. Carrie is a boring and unlikable main character, because all she does is complain about having a serial killer sister and never take responsibility for her part. In short, Carrie makes me cringe. As she's being followed and cornered by the detective I'm hoping she gets caught and has to come clean. The climax fell so short. I was like wow that's it? This story had potential because the writing style was addictive and edgy. Yet, the bulk of the plot was incredibly disappointing. I don't know what adult is going to read this and think it's realistic. I started to wonder if this was supposed to be satire. I hate to say it, but read this only if you want to laugh at a bad popcorn thriller.
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  • Gigi
    5.0 out of 5 stars LISTENNNN
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023
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    This book I read it twice !!! My daughter read it after me and my spouse has read it after her . So worth it ! Deff a good read !
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  • kaitlyn
    4.0 out of 5 stars not what I expected
    Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2023
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    Not as good as the first book in my opinion. But definitely gave the closure needed from how the first book ended. Still kept you interested the entire time. But also semi predictable as well compared to the first book.
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  • Kaceey
    3.0 out of 5 stars Definitely helps to read book one one first!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2022
    When I first saw this book I was very excited to get my hands on it. The premise sounded great! But a few pages in, I started to feel like I was missing something. I quickly looked it up on Goodreads and found that indeed it is book 2 of a series. I did not see that listed with the title or I would have passed this one up. I never jump into a series midway…even if it’s just book 2.

    The author gives plenty of background! Almost too much! Now I couldn’t go back to read book one as all the spoilers were revealed. I had no choice but to carry on.

    But I just lacked the connection to Carrie and her troubles. I felt like an outsider peering through a window. Watching but never feeling the read.
    I know my experience would have been completely different if I had the opportunity to read book one.
    There needs to be a tag on the title page showing this is part of a series.(please).

    Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing
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  • Jackie Roman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2022
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    Get the first book before you read this one. It’s a great fast read
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  • Melissa Migdal
    4.0 out of 5 stars So many twists!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2022
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    I told you this would happen follows Carrie and her sister Becca and the decades of secrets they have kept. From each other and the ones they love.
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  • Jill Nicely
    5.0 out of 5 stars a surprising semi-satiric assortment of psychopaths
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022
    Carrie Lawrence wants a boring life. She has a job she likes and a boyfriend, and she would like nothing more than to marry him, buy a house, and maybe adopt a puppy. It seems like a simple enough dream. But she’s just not sure it’s meant to be for her. She has secrets.

    Carrie lives in Brampton, a small town with an unusually high number of missing persons. One of those missing persons is her older sister Becca. Carrie has some notoriety in town because of her missing sister. She also has some notoriety for having survived the town’s famous serial killer, Footloose. Named because he liked to separate the foot from his victim, Footloose had kidnapped Carrie and taken her to his murder cabin. She had managed to escape, burning down the cabin as she went. But before she escaped, she heard another woman cry out, so Carrie rescued her as well.

    Carrie was invited to attend a meeting of the Brampton Kill Seekers, a group of those with missing family members and true crime fans who are working together to figure out why so many people are missing in Brampton. Well, Carrie wasn’t so much invited as badgered, with emails coming in every day for two weeks to encourage her to go to the meeting. She had survived a serial killer. They think she might have information that could help them. But what they don’t know is that Carrie hadn’t survived a serial killer.

    She’d survived two.

    Her sister Becca had also been a psychopath. She’d tormented Carrie since she was a kid, and eventually started killing people. She had blackmailed Carrie to help her dispose the bodies, so now Carrie is involved in those killings. But nobody knows about Becca, except for Carrie. And now she’s missing. She may be dead, which would make Carrie’s life so much easier. She could maybe have that quiet, boring life of her dreams.

    Unless the police find some of those bodies that Carrie helped Becca bury. Or if the Brampton Kill Seekers manage to break through to the truth. Carrie will need to pay attention to every detail if she wants to make it through her life without being in prison. After everything she went through with her sister and then with Footloose, does she have the strength to forge a new life for herself, or will she fall apart under the pressure?

    I Told You This Would Happen is a dark thriller that has you swinging from goosebumps of fear to peals of laughter in an instant. The absurdity of Carrie’s situation grows as the twists come at her, and it’s stressful and hilarious at the same time. Fans of Samantha Downing will find a friend in author Elaine Murphy and their similar way of being dark and being laugh-out-loud funny at the same disturbing time.

    This book is absolutely crazy-bananas. I could not stop reading it. It’s disturbing and weird and unexpected, but I loved every page. There is so much going on in this book, and I can’t talk about too much of it here. For one, I don’t want to give too much away. You probably think I have given a lot of away, what with talking about the two serial killers, but trust me, there is so much more to come in the story that I’ve barely scratched the surface.

    And secondly, I’m not sure how to put into words the things I am thinking and feeling from this book. If you belong to a book club that is comfortable with gallows humor, this would be a great book to it around discussing. With wine. Lots of wine. And a cheese board. But mostly, wine. If you don’t have a dark book club to enjoy this with, read it with your best friend or the person you talk about your favorite true crime podcasts with. This is a good buddy read because it will leave you with things you want to say, and it will help to have someone you can turn to with those thoughts, someone with the same stunned look on their face and a new inability to say “Footloose” without giggling just a little.

    Egalleys for I Told You This Would Happen were provided by Grand Central Publishing through NetGalley, with many thanks.
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  • Sara Steven
    5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense and Intrigue
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
    I read the book that had come before this one–Look What You Made Me Do (reviewed here)–which made me even more excited to see what had become of Carrie, and to find out if she could truly move on or if she’d have unwanted ties to her former life with her sister. Along with that are a lot of hidden lies and secrets that Carrie has to keep from those closest to her, for fear of having the potential perfect life she’s been dreaming of her whole life removed and thrown away, along with her freedom.

    The Brampton Kill Seekers was an interesting group. I thought it was a good way to move the plot forward, since everyone who is part of the group has an interest in finding out who the new serial killer might be, along with deciphering a note that was left behind by one of the victims. It was a total twist when it’s discovered that the clues were left for Carrie all along, and she has to try to decipher it all as best she can, or risk losing it all.

    From the first book and into the second one, I’d had my doubts about Carrie’s boyfriend. It was something her sister Becca had brought up and had never wavered on, so while I enjoyed finding out what the note meant, I also wanted to see what would become of Carrie’s boyfriend and if he’s more malicious than what was let on. It was really great how the people you think you can’t rely on, who are seen as the most dangerous, can become the closest allies, while characters seen as reliable and dependable could very well be Carrie’s undoing, and you never know for sure which way things would go. It kept me guessing until the very end.

    I Told You This Would Happen was a great follow-up to Look What You Made Me Do. The bad guys, the supposed “good” guys, and characters like Carrie who toe the line between what can be viewed as good vs. evil, with plenty of drama, suspense, and intrigue. It was a definite five-star experience!
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  • Jenny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
    Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2022
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    Elaine Murphy does it again! Another fantastic thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat. Not only did this book keep me constantly guessing, but I was also laughing out loud at times. This book is the perfect combination of a thriller and dark comedy. The thriller genre is often overdone, but Elaine Murphy found a way to develop a unique story that is utterly addicting. Be careful - once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down.
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  • anna
    5.0 out of 5 stars intrest
    Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2022
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    could not put it down it was edge of your seat . would make a great movie , loved it
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  • this book was wounderful to read loved it. thanks to my friends for recommending it
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, when is the next book coming out
    Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2022
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    I love this author, her books are very exciting to read. I can't wait for more books to come out from her.
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