Title: We Would Never Tell
Author: Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Published: April 14, 2026
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Source: Ebook (NetGalley)
Length: 446 Pages
Goodreads Synopsis:
Gowns. Champagne. Murder.
Hollywood, but make it French, for twelve days straight, as the red carpet rolls out to the riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. The most famous people are all here to celebrate themselves, while the rest of the world watches in awe. And with a heavy dose of envy, at least for three young, ambitious, talented women who can’t seem to climb up from the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. As they swirl in the glitz of Cannes, the VIP invitations seem so hard to come by, and the A-list so far away. It’s enough to drive them a little crazy. Enough to make them snap and do things they might—or definitely will—regret.
It’s a good thing they’re invisible . . . until a multi-million-dollar necklace vanishes and a dead body is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, the heat of the spotlight turns up so hot that they have nowhere to hide. Now their biggest dreams are even further out of reach. Or can you get away with theft and murder if you want it badly enough?
My Rating: 4 Stars
I would first like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC for this book.
I really enjoyed this book. Three women arrive in France for the Cannes Film Festival, each for their own seperate reasons. Lou has landed her first big roll in a movie, Don’t Be Sad! and while not recieving a formal invitation by the production company decides to come anyway spending what little money she had to do so. Marnie is there for work, she works as a PR Assistant for the PR company that is contracted to the director of the movie Don’t Be Sad!. Finally we have Constance, also there for work, trying to make it on her own as a stylist for an up and coming actor, after losing her dream job due to some questionable choices she made in her past. The story is told from their perspective as well as through transcript narration of a podcast and police interviews. Each character was relatable in their own ways, deeply flawed, and maybe slightly annoying. All of which made me want to keep reading to find out more about them and find out how each of their individual lives intertwined.
The book was cleverly written, it had me guessing at who had been murdered right up until the big reveal. There were so many people that it could have been, in each of the characters lives. I was not expecting it to turn out the way it did. When I finally did get to the end, I had the feeling like that’s it? It’s just over now. I don’t know if it’s because I was expecting/hoping for more, or if I felt unsatisfied by the ending of the story itself. I don’t want to go into more details about that because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. But maybe if you read it, perhaps you felt the same.
I do think this is definitely one to read and worth the journey, so I do recommend it. It was different than a lot of mysteries I’ve read which was refreshing.
Have you read this book? What were your thoughts on it? Are there any books you would recommend for me to read based on this book review?
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