A dark psychological thriller with some well disguised twists that keep coming right up to the last page.
Written in the first person from Dr Meredith McCalls point of view.
At the start of the book McCall is a successful psychiatrist, with her own practice in New York. Her marriage, to a NHL Hockey player is perfect, but then he suffers an injury on the ice.
The first few chapters alternate between McCall now, as she struggles to get over her husbands death, and the incident that killed him, and the lead up to the incident as her husband turns to drink and pain killers.
A young woman and her daughter were also killed in the incident and all the evidence points towards it being her husbands fault.
In the present McCall fixates on Gabriel. The husband and father of the woman and girl that were killed by her husband.
She’s just finishing a years ban from practicing and is completing mandatory counselling herself, but although she knows what she is doing is wrong she struggles to tell her therapist the entire truth.
When she starts back, at her practice, Gabriel turns up as a patient. She should turn him away……….
The story follows the way she starts to unravel, lack of sleep, increased drinking, mood swings brought about by distracting herself with dating apps.
Some of her other patients mirror her own thoughts and actions, she can see it’s wrong in them, and can give them advice. So why can’t she help herself.
Her unraveling is going to ruin her, both professionally, and as a person, but can she put a stop to it.
This book is brilliantly written.
It’s psychologically dark.
The twists in the plot are well hidden until they hit.
There is a bit of “spice” but it’s not gratuitous, it adds to the story, and believe it or not, the suspense.
A big recommendation for this one from me.
Pages: 305. Publisher: Piatkus Audiobook length: 8 hours 45 minutes Narrator: Aidan Snow
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