Author: Clare Mackintosh
Expected Publication: March 13th 2018 by Sphere
Format: eBook,Hardcover, 400 pages
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
How far should you trust your own judgment? You sense things, you see things, they call it a “post-bereavement hallucinatory experience”. Logically you know what you are experiencing cannot be true since your parents are dead, that it is not rational to see your mother’s ghost standing across the street or to smell her perfume in your kitchen. So why is this all happening now, a year later, when it did not happen immediately after their deaths?
Anna’s father jumped off the cliff at Beachy Head, seven months later, in apparent desperation, her mother copied her husband’s suicide. Now on the first anniversary of her mother’s death, someone is playing a cruel joke and has sent Anna a note, “Suicide? Think again”. Is it possible the one or both of them had been murdered?
Anna’s partner, and once her therapist, Mark Hemmings is trying to convince her that it is just a hoax, but Anna isn’t so sure. Between her own emotions and the sleep deprivation that their daughter is causing, Anna’s head is swimming with possibilities, and fears, since she cannot get anyone to believe her, and the strange goings on, that confront her at every turn. This is where retired detective Murray Mackenzie steps in and takes it upon himself to unofficially investigate. With his wife in and out of a mental institution and her surprising insight on the case, Murray connects the dots in a way that has the reader scratching their head and thinking – that just might work.
As you read this book, you are certain how it is going to end. Psychology thrillers tend to lead you down a path that shifts and veers, but there are always truths that remain. Yet, the final truth in this book will have you going back a chapter or two to reread just to make sure that you did not miss something. Sure enough, I had. One misinterpretation of a sentence changed everything.
Anna’s father jumped off the cliff at Beachy Head, seven months later, in apparent desperation, her mother copied her husband’s suicide. Now on the first anniversary of her mother’s death, someone is playing a cruel joke and has sent Anna a note, “Suicide? Think again”. Is it possible the one or both of them had been murdered?
Anna’s partner, and once her therapist, Mark Hemmings is trying to convince her that it is just a hoax, but Anna isn’t so sure. Between her own emotions and the sleep deprivation that their daughter is causing, Anna’s head is swimming with possibilities, and fears, since she cannot get anyone to believe her, and the strange goings on, that confront her at every turn. This is where retired detective Murray Mackenzie steps in and takes it upon himself to unofficially investigate. With his wife in and out of a mental institution and her surprising insight on the case, Murray connects the dots in a way that has the reader scratching their head and thinking – that just might work.
As you read this book, you are certain how it is going to end. Psychology thrillers tend to lead you down a path that shifts and veers, but there are always truths that remain. Yet, the final truth in this book will have you going back a chapter or two to reread just to make sure that you did not miss something. Sure enough, I had. One misinterpretation of a sentence changed everything.
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