Broken Hope
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A grieving doctor fights back against the world's growing inhumanity…
"Rubin's revenge thriller is fast-paced and full of plenty of unexpected twists and turns…a true page-turner"—Kirkus Reviews
To her Boston patients, Dr. Hope Sullivan is a conscientious doctor with a caring bedside manner. To her victims, she is a fierce protector of those who have been wronged. After losing everyone close to her, these revenge "tune-ups" are the only thing that make her feel...well...feel anything at all.
Until one day, a mysterious email threatens to expose her. I know what ur doing, it says.
At first, Hope ignores the electronic stalking, but when the threats become increasingly personal, she knows she must act. It isn't until the stalker gives Hope a taste of her own medicine that she uncovers a far greater danger, both to herself and to the patients she cares for.
Content Warning: This book contains references to suicide and grief that might be triggering to some readers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former physician Rubin (the Liza Larkin series) impresses with this disquieting thriller about an unusual vigilante. Boston internist Hope Sullivan is jogging past an alley when she spots one of her elderly patients being mugged. She intervenes and sends the attacker fleeing, but the encounter convinces her that too many violent criminals walk free. Two years later, Hope is far from over the incident: despite insisting that "as a doctor, I don't enjoy deliberately inflicting pain," she's become a self-appointed (and violent) guardian angel, even going so far as to kidnap and torture a patient's abusive husband. Hope's new "macabre pastime," as she calls it, gets disrupted when she receives an anonymous email that insists "I know what ur doing." That message is followed by several others, each with escalating threats. Hope realizes she's met her match when another vigilante drugs and kidnaps her, seeking revenge on behalf of one of her victims. Rubin manages to make Hope an empathetic figure, despite her transgressions, and maintains taut suspense straight through to the devilish climax. This is a winner. (Self-published)
