I begin with a big sorry! I’m posting my review late as I have been unwell for a few days. I am on the tour for The Killer In Me by Max Manning. Thanks to Books N All Promotions and Joffe Books for my place on the tour and the ARC of the book.
Everything changes when you find out who you really are.
Over the past few months, I’ve lost a bit of weight without trying and suffered a few dizzy spells, both symptoms I put down to delayed shock and lingering grief. Losing your little sister is going to take its toll, mentally and physically
The driver who killed her confessed and was convicted, but he’s going to be released from prison any day now.
Soon he’ll walk free but my teenage sister will still be dead.
I’m coming to grips with that knowledge when my world turns upside down.
I volunteer to take part in a study of the brains of violent criminals. I’ll be the control sample of a ‘normal’ brain. But then the doctor calls me into his office.
We need to discuss your scan . . .
I feel lightheaded as he breaks the news: I’m not normal. My brain shows all the classic features of a high-level psychopath.
Later as I take a sip of white wine in a city bar, my head is crowded with possibilities. Dark thoughts. Twisted opportunities.
Maybe it’s time to embrace my secret self.
Maybe finding out I’m a psychopath is the push I need to exact revenge . . .
What would you do?
My first book from Max Manning and not my last! The Killer In Me is a psychological thriller that I couldn’t put down and I read it in one sitting.
A stunning read with characters that aren’t the most reliable. It’s a tense and exhilarating story as Liv Marsh, the main character kept me on the edge of my seat wondering if she could be a psychopath as she digs into her sisters death.
Told from multiple perspectives so the reader gets a good overall and balanced view of whags going on throughout. The characters are developed well enough to make you want to know what will happen to them.
The twists and turns just keep coming as the story unfolds. Every chapter made me want more until I finally reached the conclusion that I couldn’t have guessed! An absolute corker of a book. If you are a psychological thriller lover, please try this. It may surprise you as it did me.
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Author Bio
Max Manning is a former national newspaper journalist. He started his career as a news reporter on regional newspapers before moving on to Fleet Street. There he worked for several titles, including Today and the Daily Express. He later joined the staff of the Daily Telegraph where he worked for sixteen years as a news sub-editor. Now You See is his debut crime novel. It is published in the USA by Sourcebooks under the title Don’t Look Now. His second novel, The Victim, is out in August 2019.
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