Close Your Eyes
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4.2 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Close your eyes…and count to ten.
He doesn’t know his name. He doesn’t know his secret.
When Daniel woke up from a coma he had no recollection of the life he lived before. Now, fourteen years later, he’s being forced to remember.
A phone call in the middle of the night demands he return what he stole – but Daniel has no idea what it could be, or who the person on the other end is. He has been given one warning, if he doesn’t find out his family will be murdered.
Rachael needs to protect her son. Trapped with no way out she will do anything to ensure they survive. But sometimes mothers can’t save their children and her only hope is Daniel’s memory.
Perfect for fans of Holly Seddon, Gillian Flynn and BA Paris.
From the best-selling author of Our Little Secret comes a new psychological thriller with a shocking twist.
Praise for Darren O’Sullivan:
‘Immensely talented new author.’ John Marrs, author of The One and When You Disappeared
‘Engrossing, compelling and twisty from the first page to the shocking ending. This book grabbed me and didn't let go.’ Michele Campbell author of It’s Always the Husband
'Unique and utterly compelling. This twisty psychological thriller will chill you to the bones.' Gemma Metcalfe author of Trust Me
‘A stellar and original concept, brilliantly executed. The final chapters had my heart in my throat! O’Sullivan is certainly one to watch.’ Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House
About the author
Darren O'Sullivan was born in Slough in 1982 but moved to Peterborough when he was 17 to train in performing arts. He has been working creatively ever since, first as an actor for the stage, then director. 5 years ago he felt inspired to write theatre and from that came the idea to develop a novel.
Following being accepted in the Faber and Faber novel writing programme in 2015 he fine tuned his hand and during that 6 month training programme his debut novel Our Little Secret was born.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
Just finished this today and it’s a great read, keeps you on tender hooks through out!
So worth it
This deserves more than 5 stars, I’d recommend it to anyway, 100% impressed!
Favourite psychological thriller - 2018
Daniel suffers from retrograde amnesia; he is unable to remember anything before the car crash he was in.
Over the years, snippets of events start to come back but Daniel’s mother never divulges anything further to spark a full memory.
In present day, Daniel still has no complete recollection of his past.
Accept someone out there knows what he did, and they want what was stolen from them back.
They give Daniel a major clue to his past, his name hasn’t always been Daniel, before the crash, it was Michael.
Oh, and until Michael returns the stolen object; Rachel – his ex wife and Tom – his son are being held captive as collateral.
You’re probably already picking up from this review, that this book is lining up to be a fast paced, nail biting and tense read – you’d be right.
Whilst Daniel has less than a week to retrieve the item he stole; which since he hasn’t a clue what it is, sees him race down memory lane to connect the dots of his past. And what he finds is not good. His mother has been lying for years. He was much closer to his father than he was told. Oh, and he has a criminal record.
Meanwhile, Rachel is trying her best to keep calm and not allow Tom to realise what situation they are in, after all he’s only young, he doesn’t need to be mentally scarred for life. Rachel decides it’s best to treat the whole situation as a story, Tom goes along with this but as the hours stretch into days, Tom begins to get bored of the story and wants to go home. Rachel now needs a different plan, one that involves escaping.
This has to be my favourite psychological thriller I’ve read so far this year. Having the two story lines of Rachel trying to escape and Daniel trying to remember, created such a race against the clock momentum, I was utterly absorbed from start to finish.
O’Sullivan was born to do this. His writing style slots him up alongside some of the greats in the psycho-thriller land. The twist at the end was exceptional – bravo to O’Sullivan, I just didn’t see it coming.
For fans of Lisa Jewell, Claire Mackintosh, C. L. Taylor, Nuala Ellwood, Peter Swanson, this will be right up your street.