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She should have stopped listening weeks ago.
FBI Agent Chloe Ryder found the recordings in the basement of a dead therapist's house. Twenty cassettes. Fifteen years of sessions. And a patient who became pen pals with a serial killer at the age of ten, before becoming one herself.
They called him The Family Man. He wrote to her from death row for twenty years. She wrote back. And somewhere in those letters, she learned how to do what she does.
To understand her, Chloe has to do something no sane person would do. Drive to the maximum security Polunsky Unit in south Texas and sit across from The Family Man himself.
But it's the recordings that won't let her go. She's living in the dead woman's house, which means she's sleeping in the bed and wearing the clothes and sitting in the chair where it happened. And the one person who could verify what she's hearing is dead—which means nobody believes her.
The closer she gets to the truth, the less sure you'll be that she should find it.
The last recording leads her to a state-run psychiatric institution upstate. Locked wards. Night shifts. Green paint on every wall. And behind one of those locked doors, someone who has been waiting for her.
A patient. A doctor. A building with no way out. Or something worse.
"You've never read anything like the last 50 pages of this book. I still haven't recovered." ★★★★★
"The Perfect Denial is a must-read." ★★★★★
"If you've not already jumped aboard the Stewart Clyde hype train, this series is the perfect place to start." ��★★★★
For readers of Gillian Flynn, Freida McFadden, and Patricia Highsmith.
The Perfect Denial is Book 2 of The Perfect Therapist series. Must be read in order.
Genre: Mystery
FBI Agent Chloe Ryder found the recordings in the basement of a dead therapist's house. Twenty cassettes. Fifteen years of sessions. And a patient who became pen pals with a serial killer at the age of ten, before becoming one herself.
They called him The Family Man. He wrote to her from death row for twenty years. She wrote back. And somewhere in those letters, she learned how to do what she does.
To understand her, Chloe has to do something no sane person would do. Drive to the maximum security Polunsky Unit in south Texas and sit across from The Family Man himself.
But it's the recordings that won't let her go. She's living in the dead woman's house, which means she's sleeping in the bed and wearing the clothes and sitting in the chair where it happened. And the one person who could verify what she's hearing is dead—which means nobody believes her.
The closer she gets to the truth, the less sure you'll be that she should find it.
The last recording leads her to a state-run psychiatric institution upstate. Locked wards. Night shifts. Green paint on every wall. And behind one of those locked doors, someone who has been waiting for her.
A patient. A doctor. A building with no way out. Or something worse.
"You've never read anything like the last 50 pages of this book. I still haven't recovered." ★★★★★
"The Perfect Denial is a must-read." ★★★★★
"If you've not already jumped aboard the Stewart Clyde hype train, this series is the perfect place to start." ��★★★★
For readers of Gillian Flynn, Freida McFadden, and Patricia Highsmith.
The Perfect Denial is Book 2 of The Perfect Therapist series. Must be read in order.
Genre: Mystery
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