The Doll's House
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Detective Helen Grace is on the trail of a twisted serial killer in this riveting thriller in the “gripping” (USA Today) international bestselling series. Ruby wakes up in a strange room. Her captor calmly explains that no one is looking for her. No one wants her. Except him. When the body of a woman is found buried on a secluded beach, Detective Helen Grace is called to the scene. She knows right away that the killer is no amateur. The woman has been dead for years, and no one has even reported her missing. But why would they? She’s still sending text messages to her family. Helen is convinced that a criminal mastermind is at work: someone very smart, very careful, and worst of all, very patient. But as she struggles to piece together the killer’s motive, time is running out for a victim who is still alive...
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11 primary books12 released books#3 in Helen Grace
Helen Grace is a 12-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 2000 with contributions by M.J. Arlidge.
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Ook deze was een vlotte thriller, die als een trein leest.
Qua afloop werd wel weer uit hetzelfde vaatje getapt. In dit boek begon ik me ook wat meer te ergeren aan het hoofdpersonage en dan vooral het feit dat ze altijd alles alleen blijft doen en al drie boeken lang ternauwernood de ontknoping overleefd door haar helden-syndroom. Ook het nevenplot met haar jaloerse baas en diens vete tegen Helen is onbegrijpelijk en enorm bij het haar gegrepen.
Maar al bij al wel een fijne thriller met een goed bedachte misdaad. Opnieuw een perfect boek voor als je niet te veel wil nadenken.
I won't rate this because I didn't finish it, but I just couldn't force myself to continue on. I stopped about 70% of the way through because the book was just a failure for me almost from the start and I didn't see it getting any better. About 15-20% of the way into the book you find out who the “bad guy” is and the only suspense left is whether or not the captive is going to survive. I never got a sense of who she was due to underwhelming character development and therefore didn't develop an attachment to her. Whether she lived or died was the only real “question” in the end and I found myself not really caring what happened to any of the characters. The pacing was good and the book was action packed, but once the suspense element was taken from me as a reader, I found myself bored.
Thank you to Penguin and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book for review.
