Possession
A Novel
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
A chilling psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end, Possession delves into the darkest corners of a woman's mind as she confronts the shocking truth about her husband's brutal murder.
The past haunts her. The present hunts her.
Conviction @ConvictionPod · 1m
The investigating officer: "I've seen a lot of homicides in the years since, but...that's the one that keeps me up at night."
The husband's best man: "They had everybody fooled. Or at least, she did. But I always knew something was off."
Hannah, the wife: "I told you. I don't remember anything. I don't know."
That's all to come, this season, on Conviction. Get ready for our most twisted season yet.
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Ten years ago, Hannah's husband was brutally murdered in their home, and she (conveniently) doesn't remember a thing about that night. The police charged a stranger and put him away for life. Hannah packed up her six-year-old daughter and left London behind.
But now her hard-won peace is threatened. Conviction, a viral true crime podcast known for getting cases reopened and verdicts overturned, has turned its attention to Hannah's husband's murder. They say police framed the guilty man, and that Hannah has more suspicious secrets than just her memory loss: a history of volatility; citations at the psychiatric clinic where she worked; dependencies on alcohol and pills; and a familicidal grandmother, locked away in a Gothic asylum until her death.
As Hannah loses the trust of everyone she loves, the only person she feels she can confide in is a former colleague, Darcy, who's come back into her life—but who may have motives of her own. Yet Hannah can't even tell Darcy her deepest secret: that she's still tormented by the memory of her husband and the crater he carved through her life.
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In this twisty, atmospheric psychological thriller from Lowe (The Furies), psychiatrist Hannah McLelland has painstakingly rebuilt normal for herself and her 16-year-old daughter in a remote countryside sanctuary in the decade since her husband's headline-grabbing murder in their London home, on a night she has never been able to remember, and the ensuing sensational trial of his alleged killer. Suddenly, everything threatens to come crashing down. A true-crime podcast goes viral with its reinvestigation of Hannah's husband's murder and attempt to win exoneration for the young man convicted of it. This involves fanning suspicion of Hannah herself, in part by exposing such skeletons as her possible culpability in a patient's suicide. Lowe all too believably depicts how in today's social media driven milieu, anonymous commenters can quickly morph crusades for justice into an electronic lynch mob. Readers will keep flipping the pages right up to the gasp-worthy final bombshell. This author continues to impress.