To The Last Page

You expect a thriller to operate on a number of levels, the surface actions of a murder plot hiding deeper motivations, secret desires and hidden pasts. JP Delaney’s Believe Me certainly plays with those levels like any good thriller should, but there’s something else here that you sense is just a little bit more complicated, where the idea of truth and reality is a little more blurred, and the consequences potentially even more dangerous for it. One of the things that makes it difficult to determine real emotions and behaviours from faked one is the fact that Claire is an actress; a good one. Unfortunately she doesn’t have a Green Card, but she is determined to make the most of her time in New York by attending one of the best acting schools in the city. The only actress work that Claire can get is for a private detective who needs an attractive woman who is also a good actress to ‘test’ men whose wives believe they are being unfaithful by suggesting she is available and getting them...