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Average rating4.2
A psychopath loses his “healthy coping mechanism” and it all unfolds both exactly like and completely differently from how one might expect. Rich in psychological depth and full of incident, all in less than 200 pages. Maybe the closest to horror I've read from Rendell, wintery and riveting.
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I'm working my way through genres I do not normally read and this one filled a PopSugar Challenge requirement (a book published the year you were born). It held my attention! I was more than a little creeped out. I enjoyed the time period and the setting. A shared house and telephone certainly added to the tension. Arthur was very normal on the outside and quite chilling on the inside. I found Anthony to be a little overdramatic.