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STARRED REVIEW

Clear My Name

This wonderfully executed mystery straddles the line between psychological thriller and good old-fashioned whodunit.

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Review of ‘Clear My Name’

It’s evident from the first page of Clear My Name that Paula Daly’s heroine, investigator Tess Gilroy, is as adept at keeping secrets as she is at uncovering them. Between Tess and Carrie, the woman she’s trying to prove innocent of murder, we’re left with two narrators who are simultaneously sympathetic and also inherently unreliable.…

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