One of the Good Guys
The scorching psychological thriller everyone is talking about
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Descripción editorial
If most men say they’re one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?
'Groundbreaking. Hall’s take on a very contemporary subject is challenging, revelatory and controversial' – Sunday Times
'Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable.' - Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True
'One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today' – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
'I devoured this book' – Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women
'Scorching, smart and soaked in feminist rage' – Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club
'A dark, dazzling shock to the system' – Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel’s career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.
So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.
Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie.
Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It’s an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them.
As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don’t know each other very well at all.
This is what happens when women have had enough.
'One of the Good Guys is definitely one of the good ones'
Val McDermid, author of the Karen Pirie series
'An intriguing mix of psychological thriller and contemporary feminist fable'
Daily Mail
'This book will hook you from the first page'
Alice Feeney, author of Daisy Darker
'It got me by the throat and wouldn’t let go. It’s creepy, thought-provoking, compelling and so very relevant'
Julie Cohen, author of Bad Men
'A mind-bending tour de force. Araminta Hall has always been one of my favorite writers, but what she has done here is groundbreaking. This thriller is shocking, twisted, dark, and absolutely on-point'
Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife
'A bold and on-point feminist thriller about gendered violence with Gone Girl twistiness and narrator unreliability'
Victoria Selman, author of Truly, Darkly, Deeply
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this unsettling psychological suspense novel from Hall (Hidden Depths), Cole Simmonds is trying to rebuild his life after a nasty split from his wife, Mel Connelly. He leaves his office job in London to work as a wildlife ranger along the southern coast of England, where he immediately becomes enchanted with Leonora Baxter, an artist who lives in a neighboring cottage. While the two get to know each other, feminist activists Molly Patterson and Phoebe Canton, who are livestreaming their hike along the coast as part of a domestic violence fundraiser, vanish. Cole becomes the prime suspect when a strand of Molly's hair is found in his outhouse. Hall then shifts the story to Mel's perspective. Chronicling the downfall of her and Cole's marriage, Mel recounts her fertility struggles and alludes to unsettling truths about her former husband. Soon, the hikers' disappearance captures public attention, with newscasters and social media sleuths alike weighing in on Cole's involvement in Molly and Phoebe's fates. From there, Hall begins to tie each of her story threads together with a series of twists about the disappearances and Cole and Mel's marriage. Her plot and themes don't exactly break new ground, but Hall keeps things moving at a brisk clip, and the thought-provoking conclusion will prompt readers to ask difficult questions about bad male behavior. Fans of Megan Abbott will want to check this out.
