Tell Me Who You Are
A Novel
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3.8 • 79 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient.
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really are.
Dr. Caroline is accustomed to hearing her patients’ deepest, darkest secrets, but it seems Nelson Schack may be one step ahead when detectives show up later that day, inquiring about a missing woman. It looks like Nelson has made good on his threat—yet somehow it’s Dr. Caroline who becomes the prime suspect.
Convinced the police are incompetent, Dr. Caroline takes matters into her own hands, chasing down the elusive Nelson and running headlong into a past she has spent her entire life trying to forget. As she closes in on her target, all the polished pieces of her manicured life splinter when people begin to question who she really is.
Harrowing, unpredictable, and compulsively readable, the award-winning author Louisa Luna’s Tell Me Who You Are is an utterly gripping psychological thriller that begs the question: Can a person ever really outrun their past?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A psychiatrist’s perfect life is torn apart by a patient set on revenge in this riveting psychological thriller. Dr. Caroline Strange is strict about the sanctity of client-patient confidentiality, so she hesitates to tell the police that her new patient says he’s thinking of killing someone. But when a reporter who almost ruined Caroline’s reputation goes missing, she realizes her patient’s threats may be more than just bluster. Author Louisa Luna skillfully collects the pieces of Caroline’s life, jumping back and forth in time between her present as a successful therapist and a brutal mass murder in the town she was raised, carefully linking each piece together until it reveals the entire stunning picture. Caroline is a delightfully unreliable narrator, keeping us totally off balance until the final reveal. Seriously, the ending of Tell Me Who You Are will have even the most seasoned thriller fan picking their jaw up off the floor.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The NYPD suspects a psychiatrist of abducting a journalist who publicly denigrated her in the cunning latest from Luna (the Alice Vega series). Ellen Garcia, a staff writer at Brooklyn Bound magazine, has been missing for three days when new patient Nelson Schack tells Dr. Caroline Strange he's thinking of killing someone she knows. Nelson's admission isn't specific enough to warrant a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality to inform the police—but then two detectives come knocking on Caroline's door. Two months earlier, Ellen included Caroline on a list of the worst doctors in Brooklyn; in turn, Caroline sent a letter to the editor of Brooklyn Bound, evincing a grudge against the reporter that now resembles a motive. To exonerate herself, Caroline sells out Nelson to the police and launches her own inquiry into Ellen's disappearance. Luna relays the bulk of the tale in Caroline's snarky first-person, present-tense narration ("This is the moment, if I were the star of my own reality show, when I'd cast my eyes above the camera at the producer and mouth, Get me the fuck out of here"), which successfully distracts from the plot's preponderance of coincidences. Chapters that check in on Ellen, who's been taken captive, and flash back to Caroline's childhood, casting doubt on her candor, ramp up the tension. Lisa Gardner fans, take note.
Customer Reviews
Entertaining
I enjoyed getting to know the psychology of each character. There were a few moments in the book that left my jaw dropped and shockingly stunned for a minute or two. This was an enjoyable book.
Sad I read it
Wish I could read again.
Most boring book ever
I wish I hadn’t wasted money on this.