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PERFECT COUPLE OR PERFECT LIES?
When Gemma O’Connor comes home from a press trip, she can’t find her husband Danny anywhere. They only recently moved to a Bristol suburb from London. The house is clean but no shopping has been done. His clothes, passport and other stuff are also still present, only his bicycle and laptop are missing. She can’t get in touch with him by e-mail and friends or family know nothing.
DCI Helena Dickens has her work cut out for her. In the normally peaceful district, 2 murders on young single men have taken place. There’s no obvious connection between the victims, but the bodies have been found close to each other and they both was in their 30ies and died from head injuries. They also looked alike, like brothers or so. With no suspects, she hopes that there won’t be a third victim (and thus a serial killer).
But when Gemma comes in to report her husband Danny a missing person, she notices that he looks eerily similar to the 2 murder victims. It might well be a coincidence, but there are too many of those and she doesn’t like it a bit.
Something strange is going on with Danny’s disappearance, Gemma can’t find back any of the photo’s she made during the last weeks and there’s also no trace of Danny’s e-mails during that period. His workplace says that they did hire him initially, but that he declined a few weeks later. Both neighbours claim that they never saw him and assumed that Gemma lived there alone.
After finding out that Danny lied about his job and his whereabouts and seeing his profile on a dating app, Gemma starts to realise that they never were the perfect couple she thought they were and that she never knew her husband at all. Their marriage and relationship were built on nothing but lies.
However this book is marketed as a psychological thriller, and there are certainly mind games being played, I’d rather put it under police procedural, although one doesn’t exclude the other. The main question in this book is where is Danny and why did he tell all those lies to his wife. You’re also left in limbo for a long time before you find out whether Gemma has anything to do with her husband’s disappearance. She claims complete innocence, but as the story progresses, more and more circumstantial evidence points in her direction.
I found the ending a bit disappointing, it was cleverly thought up, but there’s no reason why Gemma should be the main suspect and not some other random person. Also, the actions of the killer in the final chapters seem illogical (I can’t point out exactly why as that would give away too many spoilers). If you’re willing to look over that, it’s an entertaining suspense novel
DCI Helena Dickens has her work cut out for her. In the normally peaceful district, 2 murders on young single men have taken place. There’s no obvious connection between the victims, but the bodies have been found close to each other and they both was in their 30ies and died from head injuries. They also looked alike, like brothers or so. With no suspects, she hopes that there won’t be a third victim (and thus a serial killer).
But when Gemma comes in to report her husband Danny a missing person, she notices that he looks eerily similar to the 2 murder victims. It might well be a coincidence, but there are too many of those and she doesn’t like it a bit.
Something strange is going on with Danny’s disappearance, Gemma can’t find back any of the photo’s she made during the last weeks and there’s also no trace of Danny’s e-mails during that period. His workplace says that they did hire him initially, but that he declined a few weeks later. Both neighbours claim that they never saw him and assumed that Gemma lived there alone.
After finding out that Danny lied about his job and his whereabouts and seeing his profile on a dating app, Gemma starts to realise that they never were the perfect couple she thought they were and that she never knew her husband at all. Their marriage and relationship were built on nothing but lies.
However this book is marketed as a psychological thriller, and there are certainly mind games being played, I’d rather put it under police procedural, although one doesn’t exclude the other. The main question in this book is where is Danny and why did he tell all those lies to his wife. You’re also left in limbo for a long time before you find out whether Gemma has anything to do with her husband’s disappearance. She claims complete innocence, but as the story progresses, more and more circumstantial evidence points in her direction.
I found the ending a bit disappointing, it was cleverly thought up, but there’s no reason why Gemma should be the main suspect and not some other random person. Also, the actions of the killer in the final chapters seem illogical (I can’t point out exactly why as that would give away too many spoilers). If you’re willing to look over that, it’s an entertaining suspense novel
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