Suspicious Minds
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
When you're dreaming, it's dangerous to wake up . . . An addictive psychological thriller from David Mark, currently writing "at the top of his game" (Publishers Weekly)
Liz Zahavi is desperate. Desperate for her controlling partner, Jay, to stay with her, to actually love her. Desperate to be well again, after a recent diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. Desperate to be understood.
Private therapy seems like the answer to her prayers, but Liz doesn't even make it to her first appointment. Lost in a maze of country roads, she crashes her car, only to be rescued by a brooding local farmer . . . who just keeps on rescuing her. Attractive and intense, Jude is a dream, and Liz doesn't want to wake up.
But four years ago, Jude's perfect, pretty wife died alone in the woods near their house. And as Jude's past boils into the present, threatening to destroy their new happiness, Liz begins to wonder what exactly her new man is capable of . . . and how far he's willing to go.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Liz Zahavi, the protagonist of this taut psychological thriller from Mark (The Mausoleum), learns she may be suffering from borderline personality disorder, she decides to seek treatment from a therapist licensed in dialectical behavior therapy in another part of England. She gets lost en route to her appointment, and drives her car into a stone wall, losing consciousness. Jude Cullen, a farmer who lives nearly off the grid, rescues Liz and takes care of her. Over the weeks that follow, Liz becomes convinced that Jude might be the perfect partner for her and an escape from every critical person back home. Then Liz finds out that Jude had a wife who died mysteriously four years earlier, and she comes to wonder whether she can trust Jude, or if she can even trust herself. Lyrical prose ("Here, in the charcoal depths of winter, the forest has been mercilessly disrobed") helps compensate for some repetitive passages. Though Liz is more a disorder personified than a person with a disorder, readers will still care about her fate. Those with a taste for the gothic will be rewarded.
