What You Don't Know
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
Catching the killer is just the beginning in the outstandingly dark debut, What You Don't Know, from rising grip-lit star, JoAnn Chaney.
Do you really know your neighbours?
Jacky Seever was a beloved local businessman and pillar of the Denver community. Until thirty-one bodies were discovered in the crawlspace of his house.
Detective Paul Hoskins was lauded for bringing down one of the most ruthless serial-killers of the decade.
Sammie Peterson, the lead reporter on the case, finally obtained the success she craved.
And Seever's wife, Gloria? Well, she claimed to be as surprised as everyone else.
But when you get that close to a killer, can you really just move on?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Denver, Chaney's unsettling, well-crafted first novel opens in December 2008, when homicide detectives Ralph Loren and Paul Hoskins arrest creepy Jacky Seever, a successful restaurateur, after a search of the crawl space in the home that he shares with his wife, Gloria, turns up bodies of murder victims going back decades. The subsequent investigation is covered by newspaper reporter Samantha "Sammie" Peterson, whose extramarital affair with Hoskins grants her special access. "It'll never be over," the incarcerated Seever predicts, and so it proves seven winters later when Carrie Simms, who escaped Seever in 2008, is murdered, along with others connected to the original case. The methodology mirrors Seever's, including his trademark removal of one or more of the victims' fingers, a fact that was never released to the public. All the point-of-view characters Hoskins, Sammie, Grace are tragically flawed in believable ways, though the flat, untidy ending may leave some readers feeling frustrated.
