That psychology goes a long way in thrillers or crime novels is obvious in emblematic cases such as Thomas harris and his Hannibal or John katzenbach with his psychoanalyst revisited. So for the first time Helene Flood start with a first novel Black on which to pour your knowledge about professional performance as a psychologist adds many entry points.
Then there is the start with sufficient rhythm, awakening the typical concerns of the thriller reader. Nothing better than an untimely disappearance that upsets Sara's entire life, the protagonist suddenly reconverted into the center of a macabre joke.
Because nobody knows anything about her husband Sigurd's strange excuses for disappearing. And his message on the phone turns against her. Because if he was about to go out with his friends and never came ...
The police see it in a very different way than Sara presents it to us. And we are trying to trust Sara to believe. But suspenseful plots can always have unexpected twists. And no one better than a psychologist to pretend what she is not.
But no, we are reluctant to believe that Sara is the bad one. She has introduced us to history and it is she who must lead us towards the light of her truth.
Everything has to be a matter of Sigurd, capable of devising his plan with malice and treachery, leaving a message on the phone because he knew that at the precise time she could not pick it up ...
But of course, then we end up completely losing our position. Because poor Sara seems the target of God knows what a crazy plan. Cameras, microphones, a complex system to spy on her that stuns cops, Sara and ourselves.
Without Sigurd there is no way to find the keys to the matter. And finding him alive seems essential. Because there is no other clue, not even the slightest trace of someone who has taken care so meticulously in tracing Sara's life as the traceability of a highly valued target for what the hell it was ...
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