First published 2014
Joseph O'Loughlin is a clinical psychologist with a sharp mind, a strong marriage, and a daughter he adores. Then comes the Parkinson's diagnosis, and the ground shifts under everything he thought was solid. When police pull him into a high-profile murder case, he sees it as a chance to prove his mind still works. He reads people. He sees things others miss. But the victim is someone he knows. She was his patient, a deeply troubled young woman whose obsession with him once nearly destroyed his career and his marriage. He says nothing. That silence is a mistake. Now a hard-charging detective has O'Loughlin in his sights, convinced the psychologist is hiding something. He is. And somewhere out there, the actual killer has noticed that O'Loughlin is the one person who might piece together the truth. O'Loughlin is trapped between a body that betrays him and a situation that keeps tightening. The question is whether his mind is still sharp enough to get him out.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, gritty, introspective, suspenseful, tense, thought-provoking
Tropes: cat-and-mouse, past-trauma, unreliable-narrator, wrongly-accused
Period: contemporary
432 pages · Paperback · Little, Brown Paperbacks
Content warnings: death, mental-illness, murder