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He sees her. The one. The sunglasses don’t fool anyone, she is clearly upset, her nose and lips swollen from crying. They are two lost souls and he knows his love can help her. After all, she is not the first girl he has followed home…
Adam is the perfect boyfriend. He pays attention, he buys flowers. He knows everything about Laura and looks after her every need. He cooks, he cleans – he even does the dishes without being asked.
But Laura has never met Adam. Still grieving after a devastating car crash that killed her family, she’s forgetful and struggling to pull her life together. She’d be horrified to know the depth of this unsettling fantasy in which she is the star. But there’s no denying the chill she feels every time she finds another elaborate bouquet on her doorstep, or wakes in the night sensing she is not alone.
Adam has been watching her every move, and now it’s time to act. Except, there’s one little detail he’s missed: Laura has been watching him too.
After everything she’s been through, Laura’s ready to fight back and stop being the victim in her own life story. But in Adam’s world, there are no happy endings…
This is a very dark and at times disturbing story about three characters who had each suffered their own personal tragedies in their pasts and who's paths were destined to collide in the breath taking conclusion of a terrifying game of cat and mouse.Although other characters were given a opportunity to voice their thoughts,the main narrators were Laura (The Victim) Adam (The Stalker) and Mike (The Detective) I really liked Laura and how her character grew in strength as the story unfolded and Adam's campaign of terror intensified and her pleas for help were ridiculed and dismissed by this police. This is unfortunately reflective of real life stalking cases where a victim has been seriously injured or murdered by their stalker after the victims pleas for help had been ignored. We are now living in the 21st century and like to believe that we are living in enlightened times but unfortunately the truth is that there are still people who live by outdated laws and attitudes. Well, Laura wasn't just going to have a break down and be a victim, she was determined to turn the tables on her stalker and beat him at his own game something which as you can imagine was not what Adam was expecting to happen. Adam had some serious mental health issues and his thoughts on love and women were rather skewed and that's putting it mildly. It wasn't difficult to understand why he thought the way he did when you took into consideration his shocking upbringing which was revealed in segments that were set in the past. Adam's past was heart breaking and very difficult to read at times but the scenes when he was with his gran and she read to him and taught him about flowers were heart warming. Young Adam's story really pulled at the reader's heart strings and caused you to feel so much sympathy for the poor boy. But as he got older, the reader faced a moral dilemma, was it fair to judge Adam's thoughts, behaviour and actions when he was obviously a very disturbed man? Yes, his actions were shocking and twisted but was it wrong if the reader felt a tiny little bit of sympathy for a lonely man who only wanted to be loved? I think the author's portrayal of Adam had a equal balance between his human side and his disturbed side and left the reader to make up their own mind about how they felt about him. My favourite character was Detective Sergeant Michael Bishop, a big cuddly bear of a character who wore a slightly lived in mac because his work nickname was Columbo. He might have looked crumpled and symbolic but just like Peter Falk's beloved detective,he used his appearance to his advantage. He was a wonderful character and I loved the interactions between him and his friend Detective Chief Inspector Simon Phillips.
As with all of Barbara Copperthwaites thrillers this is a very well written, intense, dark, chilling and thought provoking read. The story was quite disturbing at times and the plot covered some hard hitting but realistic issues and I think that it would raise some interesting and controversial discussions if it was read by a book group.
Author Bio:
Barbara is the Amazon and USA Today bestselling author of psychological thrillers INVISIBLE, FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD, THE DARKEST LIES, and HER LAST SECRET.
More importantly, she loves cakes, wildlife photography and, last but definitely not least, her two dogs, Scamp and Buddy (who force her to throw tennis balls for them for hours).
Having spent over twenty years as a national newspaper and magazine journalist, Barbara has interviewed the real victims of crime - and also those who have carried those crimes out. She is fascinated by creating realistic, complex characters, and taking them apart before the readers' eyes in order to discover just how much it takes to push a person over a line.
When not writing feverishly, she is often found hiding behind a camera, taking wildlife photographs.
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