![]() ![]() But when Ruby arrives at the hotel, Harry isn’t there… and he never shows up. Harry is also married, and also planned to tell his wife Emma that he’s leaving her that night. It’s Friday night, and she and Harry have agreed to meet at a hotel to begin their lives together. The book begins with Ruby leaving her husband Tom in order to begin a new life with her boss Harry, with whom she’s been having an affair. ![]() In Mary Torjussen’s latest psychological thriller The Closer You Get, character isn’t so much revealed as it is confirmed. In times of crisis, there’s a comfort when the road stays straight until the end. Husband was secretly replaced by his identical twin? Long-dead mother wasn’t dead after all? Our best writers pull off these twists with ease.Īnd yet, sometimes the best writing is the most predictable, when everything unfolds in a natural way, and characters reveal themselves to be exactly who they seem to be. And the big reveal, while often far-fetched, still resonates. ![]() Spouse, home, children… these are the touchstones for so many of us, which is why it feels so personally frightening when things go wrong. One of the reasons I enjoy the domestic thriller genre so much is that it takes place in an environment that every reader can identify with. ![]()
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