The Hand That Feeds You
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Publisher Description
'A gripping, unnerving, and original psychological thriller about whether it is possible to truly know another person. There are fresh - and genuinely shocking - revelations on every page' Kathy Reichs
I trusted you. This is how you repay me.
Morgan's life is settled - she is completing her thesis on victim psychology and newly engaged to Bennett, a man more possessive than those she has dated in the past, but also more chivalrous and passionate.
But she returns from class one day to find Bennett savagely killed, and her dogs - a Great Pyrenees, and two pit bulls she was fostering - circling the body, covered in blood. Everything she holds dear in life is taken away from her in an instant.
Devastated and traumatised, Morgan tries to locate Bennett's parents to tell them about their son's death. Only then does she begin to discover layer after layer of deceit. Bennett is not the man she thought he was. And she is not the only woman now in immense danger ...
'Must-read' Entertainment Weekly
'Irresistible' Vogue
'An unnerving, elegant page-turner' Vanity Fair
'Provocative …riveting' Oprahmagazine
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s hard to shake the opening scenes of this ferocious thriller, about a forensic psychology student who walks into her own personal nightmare—involving her beloved rescue dogs and badly dismembered fiancé. We could not put The Hand That Feeds You down. As Morgan Prager tries to make sense of what exactly went down in her cramped Brooklyn apartment, we cycle through dread, suspicions and shock.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Writing under the pseudonym A.J. Rich, Amy Hempel (Reasons to Live) and Jill Ciment (Heroic Measures) team up in this toothless mystery about murderous dogs and a "victimologist turned victim." Morgan is a master's student in forensic psychology studying how victims are chosen by their attackers. She is engaged to a man named Bennett, whom she met while conducting an online experiment about sexual predators a red flag if there ever was one. One day Morgan returns to her Williamsburg apartment to find Bennett fatally mauled, presumably by her three beloved rescue dogs, two pit-bull mutts and a Great Pyrenees. From this taut, eerie opening, the tale gradually loses its fierceness. Morgan begins to doubt whether her blood-covered hounds could be capable of such aggression, and her suspicions only increase when she discovers that Bennett was keeping some rather significant secrets. In search of answers about her lover's hidden life and gruesome death, she also tries to prevent her dogs from being put down, which slows her investigation and any narrative momentum. With its focus on sociopathy and overt references to Cholderlos de Laclos's masterpiece of erotic manipulation, Dangerous Liaisons, the novel has the makings of a penetrating psychological thriller. Unfortunately, neither the perpetually blindsided heroine nor the paper-thin villain has the depth to redeem this perfunctory, and outlandish, mystery.
Customer Reviews
The Hand that feeds You
This is a really different book that I found hugely enjoyable. Sad obviously when referencing the pitiful conditions of the Animal Shelter but regardless well worth reading.