Thank you to Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of Her Many Faces in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio
Published: July 15, 2025
Summary:
For readers of Girl A and Notes on an Execution comes a whip-smart and suspenseful story of a woman on trial for murder, as told through the eyes of the most important men in her own life.
Daughter, client, lover. Monster. Victim.
You were a sweet girl.
You were the prettiest girl I’d ever seen.
You were a bomb going off in my life.
You were a challenge.
You were the story of a lifetime.
When four wealthy and influential members are poisoned at London’s most exclusive private club, a young waitress is arrested. As her personal life and upbringing are picked over, her obsession with online conspiracy theories is exposed.
After the murder accusation, five men begin to question how well they really knew her. To each of them—her father, a reporter, her former lover, her friend, and her lawyer—she is someone entirely different. But which is the true face of Katherine Cole? And is she a killer?
The truth about who Katherine is, and what exactly she has done, lies somewhere between these five male perspectives. The searing laser of the male gaze has never been more dangerous, as Katherine’s trial grips the nation and theories and perceptions about her spiral out of control.
What follows is a chilling kaleidoscope of a thriller, both a smart courtroom drama and a frightening examination of how one woman can be so ruthlessly deconstructed by the men who know her best—and just what happens when she decides to speak out at last.
My thoughts:
When I saw this was being comped to Notes on an Execution, I knew I had to read it. Notes on an Execution is one of my all-time favorite books and the comparison was spot on! This was such a whip-smart psychological thriller that kept me guessing all the way through!
I loved the way this story was told, alternating POV’s from the five men in Katherine Cole’s life, allowing us as the reader to figure out who she really is. And let me tell you, it’s hard to separate truth from fiction at times…this one really gets under your skin as the layers are peeled back, and the investigation really gets going. Each of the men knew a different version of Katherine, but which version was the real version?
I could not have loved this one more…it kept me on edge as I tried to put the pieces together, trying to spot the inconsistencies and mistruths. It was such a clever, unique spin on a tired trope – did she do it or not? If you haven’t picked this one up yet, I highly recommend doing so.
Audio thoughts:
This was amazing on audio, narrated by a full cast — Sachin K. Sharma, Collin R. Campbell, Isaac Gryn, Louis Hill, Harvey Guinn and Florence Howard. While it takes a beat to get used to the different narrators and many characters, if you have the patience to give it some time, you eventually get into the rhythm of the story, with each narrator having a specific voice and cadence for their own character. I loved listening to this one, though I did have the print version on hand if I needed to go back at any point.
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