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Lucy Price-Lewis (Narrator), K. L. Slater (Author), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything....

Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later he is found dead.

Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, whom she has known all her life. But one day Ronnie falls ill, and Rose goes next door to help him...and what she finds in his attic room turns her world upside down.

Rose thought she knew the truth about what happened to Billy. She thought she knew her neighbour. Now the only thing she knows is that she is in danger....

The Mistake is a completely gripping thriller that will keep you up all night, from the top 10 best-selling author of Blink, Liar and Safe with Me. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.

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8 hours and 26 minutes
Author

K. L. Slater
Narrator

Lucy Price-Lewis
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November 28, 2017
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English
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Audible Studios
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B076DLVBBD
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	8 hours and 26 minutes
Author	K. L. Slater
Narrator	Lucy Price-Lewis
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	November 28, 2017
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B076DLVBBD
Best Sellers Rank	#79,423 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #901 in Psychological Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #1,930 in Psychological Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #4,921 in Psychological Fiction (Books)

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Horrible so far. Predictable, poor character development, nothing interesting here.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2017

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Holy crapola. Am I reading reviews for the same book? This is perhaps the worst "thriller" I have ever read. I am only 75% through, I just want to get it over with. The characters are so trite, the heroine is just another dopey woman who makes all the predictable mistakes. I am hoping there is some twist at the end to salvage the time I have wasted on this. There is no character development, just cheesy, run-of-the-mill stuff. Maybe this is a young adults book? Sometimes Amazon recommends stuff that is not appropriate for adults. I think I have only found one other book that was worse than this that I deleted without finishing. Not sure I will make it through this. Move on.

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Clever and literate

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2021

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The protagonist, Rose, is compelling but deeply flawed. The other three younger principal characters are unattractive but deeply flawed. In fact a subtle theme of the book is that the older generation, for all their individual and collective blindness, are more grounded and honorable. The book is fast and suspenseful, and the twists work, something rare in mystery and suspense fiction.

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Great Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018

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I really enjoyed Liar, by K L Slater, so I was hoping this would be a good book. I wasn't disappointed. This is the story of a somewhat troubled, young lady trying to move on after the murder of a sibling.. It goes back and forth between present day and the time of the murder. It keeps you guessing until the end. The author gives you a scare, but keeps it real. If you enjoy mysteries with twists and turns you will enjoy this one.

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Brilliant Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2019

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I couldn't put this book down. I started to read it and got interrupted by something else so started over and never stopped. The plot is outstanding and the characters are well defined. The protagonist is a young woman that many females are able to identify with and have experienced the same type of controlling relationship. It is the rest of the story that is so compelling that you don't want to put the book down. The writer keeps you guessing right up until the end who is responsible for her brother's murder, but the final twist is just outstanding. Justice done the way it should be.

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like maybe too much of a stereotype of the innocent ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017

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Let's start off by saying I had huge hopes for this book. Having read Slater's previous books and liking them all, I was hoping for another indulgent, twisted story about interesting characters. This book fell flat for me. I just couldn't get past the naivete of the main character. She was so naive, it felt forced, it felt contrived, like maybe too much of a stereotype of the innocent female and the dangerous older man. Somehow this book just missed it and it pains me to say that. I love Slater's writing, usually. Safe With Me is still by far her best and most addictive work. This book however, I had to breeze through wanting it to go somewhere a little less predictable, but it never did.

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Dominick RAdogna

This was a terrific psychological thriller

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018

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This was a terrific psychological thriller. Rose the main character suffered a traumatic loss and she hasn’t been able to function normally since. She lives alone in the house she grew up in and she works at the library. She doesn’t go out too much and she is a recovering bulimic. She had lost her younger brother Billy under her watch. She has a lot of guilt. The best part of this story is that you never see the ending coming. There are so many twists and turns that you are kept guessing the entire time. It’s a great read and I definitely recommend this book.

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LSchultz

Very good

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2022

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Very good from the very beginning! Read it in 2 days! Good story with twists & turns! 😊

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Bland (2.75*s)

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017

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Regardless of other plot particulars, this is a story of an older man, apparently consumed with evil intentions, meeting, seemingly out of the blue, an extremely naïve, sheltered first-year college girl, then proceeding to control and manipulate her for his own ends. The story is mildly interesting but is basically pretty flat; the two characters do not resonate. Oh yeah, at the same time this is happening, the girl’s much younger brother is found strangled. Of course, the guy is the foremost suspect. And this saga drags on in some form for sixteen years to an ending that is truly unimaginative. Hopefully, there is a better book in the author.

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Lynda Kelly

In No Great Rush To Read More By Her

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2018

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This is my first by this author.....I do wish Amazon would stop tagging new books as "perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train" as both were overhyped disappointments for me, yet they have this mentioned on pretty much any new thriller these days. From now on, I think it will mean for me that I give it a big old swerve !
It has a good story although for me it isn't really anything very new, strange or startling. This in no way made it dull as of course every similar book features differing locations, characters, etc. So I enjoyed it BUT there were a couple of proper howling errors I didn't expect to encounter. We'll come to these....I have to say I didn't like Rose at all. She "writes" atrocious English for a librarian....."We'd gotten friendly with," etc....She also just came across as a bit of a whiny headcase. OK, she'd had things happen to her in her life but she was a bit of a naive nitwit even before anything nasty occurred.....she WAS only 17 but at that age should know what contraception is and that if a bloke you're knocking around with is mean to you, you don't hang around. I've been a 17 year old girl, as have most of her readers, I would think, so they'll also appreciate what I'm saying. Plus she works what equates to only 2 full working days per week yet she's always tired, exhausted, stressed and ANNOYING !! There were some real surprises in this, though. I thought for once I had it all worked out but I was found wanting as usual....
Now to the annoyances....perhaps if this was a debut I'd not have been so irritated but it isn't. So if I were the author I'd be pretty annoyed with my proofreader/editor. She writes draft the American way and not draught, kept missing the apostrophe in "goodness' sake," along with more apostrophe mistakes. ONE was so annoying I Tweeted it for posterity since she wrote visitors' and visitor's in one line, with one being right and one wrong !! She wrote take and not taken, move and not moved and these passages needed hyphenating-"concerned but searching" or "...to use the therapist speak she was so fond of" (which I puzzled over a little while before I realised what she actually meant) and we lost words from sentences here and there for a bit of variation, too. Resigned to the attic was written where I believe she meant consigned as well.
Continuation errors were bloody annoying as well. She goes to visit Gareth in his ground floor flat and has a chat with one of his neighbours who was complaining about the bloke who lived above him. Turns out that was Gareth.....in his second floor flat, we hear later. Then, we're told she still lives in her parents' house, number 13, yet her given address later on is number 206. For me this is just slapdash.
AND all the way through I was waiting on her heading into Ronnie's attic as the synopsis tells us she does. She'd made a discovery in his spare room but I was just waiting on the attic visitation which never happened !!
I would like to read another by her as he story ideas are great but after this one I have knocked them further down my list than they were !

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Spicewalker

Long held secrets and a tragic history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2017

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With certain authors, you know when you pick up one of their books you are going to be taken on a cracking journey, that the book is going to capture your attention and not really want to let you go. For me, K.L Slater is one of those authors and her latest novel, The Mistake, one of those books. I had every intention of reading this over a couple of evenings. I have been very busy at work of late and somewhat tired as a result. And there was no rush. Or so I thought. Wrong… so so wrong. Because as soon as I started reading this I was hooked. I couldn’t stop reading. It wasn’t a simple case of one more page it was one more book. No way this book was going anywhere until I was done.

Rose is a the very epitome of the mild mannered librarian. You know from the very beginning that something bad has happened in her life, something beyond the tragic death of her younger brother for which she feels ultimately responsible. Something which has made her nervous and overly suspicious of people around her. She struggles with anxiety and has a very small world in which she safely exists. Part of that world, her precious library, is under threat, something which only adds to her feeling of unease. But when she discovers something unexpected in the home of her neighbour and close family friend, her whole past is thrown into doubt and everything she thought she knew is now in question.

From the start of the book I was invested in Rose. I wanted to know more about her, to find out what it was that had made her so scared. It had to be more than the death of young Billy, as tragic as that was, and there were certainly hints dropped throughout of there being more to the situation than we knew. As the story developed it became clear where the tale was leading, but this didn’t stop if being compelling and if anything made me more determined to read on, willing Rose to open her eyes to the danger she was in. It was obvious to everyone else but her, especially the reader, but this just added an element of authenticity to the story.

As for Billy’s tragic story, it is clear from the outset what has happened, and that the suspect in his death is a man, someone Billy and the family both know. What follows is a gradual uncovering of suspects, any one of which could have reason to have hurt him, be it maliciously or otherwise. Everyone, from Rose and Billy’s father, to Rose’s boyfriend Gareth, even their next door neighbour, could be suspected of hurting Billy, but do they have the motive or the opportunity?

This is a difficult story to tell, one of domestic violence and control. KL Slater carefully explores the subject of emotional control and manipulation, making Rose a very sympathetic subject. Yes she is young and naive, but it is not simply this which makes her a suitable target. However, the big mistake she makes as a teenager has such far reaching repercussions for all of them that nobody could have foreseen at the start. None of it is played for shock factor, the reader being kept somewhat sheltered from some of the more unpleasant parts of the story. But you are still drawn in, still emotionally manipulated just as Rose was, being taken from shocked to angry to frustrated in the blink of an eye.

And how do I describe Gareth? Well, think of every depiction of a emotional abuser and you have this man right there. Charming when needed, he slowly isolates Rose from her family and friends until the point that emotional control is no longer enough. As a reader I just wanted to scream at my kindle, so frustrated by how blind Rose was to the truth. But then this is how someone like Gareth gains and maintains the control. They say that if something seems to good to be true, it probably is. That… That right there. That is this man, a loathsome character who from the very off makes the skin begin to crawl, he is so well written. Urgh. The thought of him still makes me shudder. Slime. Total and utter slime.

Did I have an inkling of what the absolute truth of this story would be? I’d be lying if I said that I was completely blindsided. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy the journey that the author takes us on as I really and truly did. And the ending… It is a two fold thing with Rose seeing complete resolution to all of the questions she has left to answer about Billy, as well as closure on a very traumatic part of her past. They say revenge is a dish best served cold. And boy was it. That part really did make me smile

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rebsygirl

Good twists, interesting characters but not quite the read it promised

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2017

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It was a bit of a slow burn and when one of the main characters seemed to show his true colours it started to get interesting. Unless I missed something by speed reading some sections there seemed to be a bit of a hole in the plot relating to Cassie as the police officer mentions something about her which is later covered as if it is a big reveal??? That confused me. I didn't see the ending coming, but it lacked any feeling of satisfaction - it felt more like the author had drawn the name out of a hat and then made it fit. That's easy for me to say- I'm no author, but i am an avid reader of all genres.. this just left me with a slightly disappointed feeling - that said, if I hadn't got in to the story or been interested in the characters I wouldn't have wanted a more satisfying end for them so the author has definitely got something right and if you're intrigued by the book I wouldn't talk you out of giving it a go.

10 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Good but needed more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2017

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SPOILERS .... sorry my review reveals a few things, tried not to give too much detail but difficult without giving an honest review.

I liked the way the story was told. It jumped back and forth from the past to the present. I thought this helped to progressively reveal the story and kept me intrigued as to what would happen.

The ending for me was a bit flat. Yes it was a twist which I didn't see coming mainly because the character wasn't present throughout the whole story. I couldn't understand how Rose was now so able to move on. She has been convinced the killer had been found and was rotting away in prison. Ok, more information had come to light, but why did this suddenly give her motivation to positively live her life? Up until that point, she strongly believed it was true so what changed? I would have liked some more narrative about her feelings at the end.

Also what happened to her mum and dad? Did I miss this in the story?
What about the former police inspector, surely he would have been back in touch given how their conversation ended and the amount of time and effort he had dedicated to the case.

I am giving it three stars because I did enjoy it. It kept me reading and I love a book that does this. i just felt the ending could have been better.

8 people found this helpful

Choccie Chick

Wonderfully written, savour every word !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2019

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What a wonderfully written story. I was really drawn in by the style of writing....it was very carefully setting the scene and dealing with some real difficult issues people encounter and it just really worked for me. The story was told in such a sensitive and caring way that it really made me invest in the characters. Whilst some reviewers said it was very slow, I thought that it added to the building tension and work really well as we got to see the detail behind characters and back story. The story itself was very well thought out and beautifully told. I enjoyed it so much I am now looking for more by this author! Please don’t miss it, take your time and savour every detail.....it’s so worth it!

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