For Your Own Good
The most addictive psychological thriller you’ll read this year
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $15.99
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Publisher Description
THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY LOVELY WIFE
'Irresistibly dark' T.M. LOGAN
'Gripping and twisted' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Dark, sly and delicious' J.P. DELANEY
'Intoxicating' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Totally the real deal' SARAH PINBOROUGH
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At Belmont Academy, excellence comes at a cost . . .
The teachers demand too much from their students.
The students are devious and unpredictable.
The parents will do anything to get their children ahead.
And when a parent dies in suspicious circumstances, it's clear that someone at Belmont is a murderer.
But how do you uncover a killer when anyone could be a suspect?
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'Brilliant' Daily Mail
'Absolutely terrific' Sarah Pekkanen
'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' B.A. Paris
'Dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun' Chris Whitaker
READERS ARE GRIPPED BY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
'A gripping, twisted and dark thriller that kept me hooked to the last page. The plot was superb, the writing was sharp, the events were unpredictable' 5***** Reader Review
'This book is exceptional. Full and twists and tension, I raced through it. Absolutely brilliant' 5***** Reader Review
'WOW! Brilliant. Couldn't put it down. So many twists and turns. Kept me in suspense until the very end' 5***** Reader Review
'Gripping and darkly comic with brilliant characterisation' 5***** Reader Review
'I was hooked from the first paragraph' 5***** Reader Review
'Samantha Downing does it again! Gripping, dark, incisive and sharply observed from start to finish' 5***** Reader Review
'A thriller with dark humour at its heart' 5***** Reader Review
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In the opening vignette of For Your Own Good, a teacher is locked in a—polite, this being the prestigious Belmont Academy—power struggle with the wealthy parent of a student, over an unsatisfactory grade. No-one has died suspiciously yet—give it time—but such is Samantha Downing’s skill that a sinister tension is already building. It isn’t long before we must rethink, and not for the last time, who we can trust in this privileged world. As the wry thriller continues, events become more and more horrifying, but Downing’s prose remains witty and her pacing perfect while characters reveal their twisted moralities, and the ground moves under them and the reader alike.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Within weeks, Belmont Academy's image plummets from gilded Ivy League gateway to ghoulish #HomicideHigh in this slyly plotted page-turner from Edgar finalist Downing (He Started It). It's going to take more than a few inconvenient bodies on campus, however, to derail such driven Belmont community members as English lit instructor Teddy Crutcher, whose recent teacher of the year award seems to have done little to diminish the massive chip on his shoulder, or talented but entitled junior Zach Ward, the most recent individual to arouse his ire. That is, until the less than stellar police investigation targets a student close to both Teddy and Zach, gifted school newspaper editor Courtney Ross. Their independent efforts to help her only make matters much, much worse—as well as put them on a dangerous collision course with one another. Though falling short of the boldly bizarro plot and quirky characters of He Started It, this thriller nonetheless offers darkly comic amusement and ample surprises from its cast of unabashedly amoral schemers. Downing remains a writer to watch.
