A good suspense writer, as he already is Paul pen, knows in advance that the greatest of thrillers can be located in the daily life of a well-connected family. Because normality is always that thin layer hardened on the volcano. Not all that we were is what we are some time later. And that always gives rise to a dark space where sometimes the first gases that recall the lava that creates them can begin to escape, a few layers below the apparent reality.
Whether the metaphor is more or less correct, I think we all understand each other when we consider that general masquerade point that can lead us to hide that we secretly smoke a cigarette from our partner in the most innocent case, or that an adventure is being lived or until We killed that neighbor who said good morning so pleasantly 😛
Yes. Normality is the great muse of the authors of the suspense genre. Because no one expects what happens to happen and yet it can be sensed that under this life of smiles, routine kisses and occasional cheers, some secret that we anxiously start looking for on each page may be hidden.
Things tend to explode when combined in unexpected ways. A trip is always a departure from the comfort zone, a change of state that can alter some component ...
I recently went on a trip with a motorhome and the truth is that I recommend the experience. But in the case of Frank and Grace, the idyllic journey through the deep United States ends up being an interior journey beyond that thin layer that I mentioned before (you know, the one that covers the volcano in a provisional and peremptory way).
Among the wide range of secrets that can inhabit as ghosts between any couple, those of these two protagonists would not fit in the largest of palaces. And of course, it is not always easy to cover a large ghost with a meager sheet.
Of course, let's face it, we are looking forward to it, that this ideal and even cloying state of this family begins to splash. And the past is a great mud factory.
What we may no longer want is that this morbid interest in getting the dirty laundry ends up pointing to cruder aspects such as revenge and death. Because there are children involved and they all end up running the same risk ...
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