Books are a wonderful way for coworkers and friends to share experiences, even when we’re miles, states, and countries apart. Hearing about what someone is reading is like taking a 5-minute vacation. Each week, one Piper team member will answer the question, “What are you reading?” and take you on a well-deserved, 5-minute vacation.
This week Steve is reading Disclaimer by Renee Knight.
“It works on every level.”
STEVE SAYS…
Imagine waking up to find a book on your night table. You don’t remember buying it, but you read the flap copy, and it sounds interesting, so you start reading. You realize that the novel is the story of your deepest, darkest secret. You’ve kept your secret for years, and now it’s there, in print, ready to destroy you and your family. But nobody else knows your secret…so can it all be just a horrible coincidence? Catherine Ravenscroft is about to find out.
Disclaimer is the best thriller/suspense novel I’ve read in a decade. It works on every level. The story is dynamite. Knight weaves her tale expertly, revealing one detail at a time while making you doubt everything you’ve read up to that point. What I particularly admire is Knight’s ability to make her characters undulate right before your eyes. Someone you’ve grown fond of turns out not to be what you expected…or is Knight playing with your expectations again? A character you detest turns out to have noble motives…or do they?
As readers, we’re probably sick of hearing every season’s new thrillers described as “the new Gone Girl.” Disclaimer is sparklingly original, and I’ll go even further: It’s better than Gone Girl.
AMAZON DESCRIPTION
A brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller—already an international sensation—about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.
Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew—and that person is dead.
Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine’s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day…even if the shocking truth might destroy her.
HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK?
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