‘Flowers For The Dead’ by Barbara Copperthwaite is a Psychological thriller that had me on pins while reading it.
A gripping story that allows us into both the victims’ lives and the killers too. Laura is a sole survivor of a crash in which her family died and Adam is the only child of a terrifyingly abusive mother and a father who wasn’t even bothered. Luckily for Adam, his gran loved him and read him fairy tales and even taught him the language of flowers.
He sets his sights on Laura after he has experienced a few lost loves. He does all he can to prove to her he is ‘The One’. Makes sure her house is clean, fills the fridge and even puts money in her purse. Laura has no clue he even exists and starts to think she is going mad when she notices anything Adam has done. She rings the police and they just don’t take it as a serious issue. How can they? Her flat hasn’t been broken in for anyone to gain entry?!
A sometimes dark, disturbing and gruesome story in some ways. Adam is as sick and twisted as we could find for a serial killer and the story does slip back and forth to show us how is life has been and even though it was not normal, I still can’t really get my mind around JUST how sick and twisted he actually ends up! Laura is a woman just dealing with grief and attempting to find her way through the fog. Then she is faced with all that Adam does, without her knowledge, the poor woman. The emotions she felt poured off the page, the disbelief, the shock and that awful feeling of feeling like you are being stalked and then the terror, I felt every single one.
Flowers For The Dead is an intense, creepy and interesting read too. Towards the end, I had my heart in my mouth as the pace picked up. A proper edge of my seat moment.
Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book for today’s blog tour.
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