Dr Caroline Strange is a psychiatrist and is excellent at her job partly due to a severe trauma she suffered as a child. She was at a sleepover at a friend’s house when her friend's father killed the entire family and then himself.

However, when a young man shows up to her practice and tells her he is going to murder someone she knows, she is faced with an ethical quandary. She suspects he is telling the truth but, without more to go on than this, it is against professional ethics and she could lose her job. However, when a journalist who recently wrote a negative article about her goes missing and she seems to be the main suspect, she reveals as much as she can without crossing the ethics line while deciding to do her own investigation.

Tell Me Who You Are is a psychological thriller by Louisa Luna. Told through two different timelines by three different voices, Dr Caroline, Gordon Strong, her next door neighbour when she was a child and Ellen Garcia, the missing journalist, it is well-written with plenty of tense moments. However, I can’t say I liked it very much. Not to say, I hated it but I just found most of the characters including Dr Caroline, extremel unlikeable. The only character, beside Gordon’s family, who I felt any real sympathy for was Ellen, the missing journalist who, turned out, was being held captive. And the part describing Caroline’s early trauma seemed to drag on and on like in get to the damn point already. I swear, by the time that part of the story ended, if I had a hedge I’d have torn it out by its roots…ok. If you read the book, you’ll understand.

Anyway, over all, like I said, I didn’t hate the book, it was just not for me but, having read other reviews, it seems many people did like it a lot so this is one I’ll leave to other readers to decide for themselves. listened to the audiobook of this novel told by three different narrators and they all did a great job.

I received an audiobook of this novel from Netgalley and Macmillan Audio in exchange for an honest review ( )

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

I requested it because I enjoyed Luna's Alice Vega series so much, but this was very different. It began well for me - I loved therapist Dr Caroline's caustic voice. But then there started to be chapters from two other perspectives: a missing woman called Ellen, and Gordon, Caroline's neighbour growing up. The Ellen chapters were disturbing and unpleasant to read. The Gordon chapters began to drag for me as I waited for the narrative to get to the point.

I found this well-written, but none of the characters were likeable or particularly relatable (except possibly Ellen, but I was skimming over her pages for the sake of my mental health). The resolution to the plot as a whole was a bit convoluted and not particularly emotionally satisfactory. (And what was the story about son Theo calling a friend a bad word - did that ever go anywhere? If it did, I missed it). ( )