{"id":24815,"date":"2026-09-27T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24815"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:26:52","slug":"book-51-of-52-it-could-have-been-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/book-51-of-52-it-could-have-been-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 51 (of 52) &#8211; It Could Have Been Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24816\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/itcouldhavebeenher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24816\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24816\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/itcouldhavebeenher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/itcouldhavebeenher.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/itcouldhavebeenher-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It Could Have Been Her &#8211; Lisa Jewell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a found dog puts her on the trail of a missing young woman, Jane Trevally, finding herself with nothing else really to do, starts to investigate, digging into the girl&#8217;s identity and the people who live in the mysterious house where she once had a traumatic encounter.\u00a0 Through her network of old friends and some actual private investigative work, Jane is able to put much of the story together.\u00a0 But, to get to the bottom of the mystery, she will have to go back to Thornwood and face the demons of her past.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Jewell\u2019s latest, <em>It Could Have Been Her<\/em>, recovers some from the last work of hers I <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/book-8-of-52-dont-let-him-in\/\">read<\/a>.\u00a0 She plays well with the creepy family in the scary house at the end of the road trope, mixing in enough doubt as to who the bad actors are along the way that you are never quite sure who to feel for or whether something bad has happened to the missing girl.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I will be revisiting her work in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a found dog puts her on the trail of a missing young woman, Jane Trevally, finding herself with nothing else really to do, starts to investigate, digging into the girl&#8217;s identity and the people who live in the mysterious house where she once had a traumatic encounter.\u00a0 Through her network of old friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12772,11143],"class_list":["post-24815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-it-could-have-been-her","tag-lisa-jewell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24817,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815\/revisions\/24817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}