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For Your Own Good: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year de Samantha Downing

For Your Own Good: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year

Autor Samantha Downing
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2022

Cine supraveghează pe cel care educă? Descoperim în For Your Own Good o confruntare brutală între imaginea publică impecabilă și o realitate interioară sinistră. Teddy Crutcher este profesorul model la Belmont Academy. Elevii îl admiră, colegii îl felicită. Totuși, sub zâmbetul său de „Profesor al Anului”, remarcăm o absență tulburătoare: soția sa a dispărut din peisaj. Tensiunea crește insuportabil când moartea suspectă a unui părinte rupe liniștea instituției. Suntem martorii unui joc de-a șoarecele și pisica unde cel care investighează se află mereu cu un pas în urma unui prădător calculat. La intersecția dintre The Teacher de Katerina Diamond și What I Told My Friends, această lucrare combină atmosfera claustrofobică a unei școli de elită cu portretul psihologic al unui sociopat care crede că orice acțiune este justificată „spre binele victimei”. Samantha Downing revine la tema măștilor sociale pe care a explorat-o în My Lovely Wife, însă aici mută focarul de la intimitatea cuplului către dinamica de putere dintr-o comunitate academică. Stilul este tăios, cu propoziții care lovesc rapid, lăsând cititorul fără suflare în fața unei minți care nu cunoaște remorderea. Subliniem aici o evoluție a autoarei către un suspans mult mai cerebral, unde pericolul nu vine din umbră, ci stă chiar la catedră, în plină lumină.

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ISBN-13: 9781405945639
ISBN-10: 140594563X
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin

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Recomandăm acest roman polițist celor care caută o perspectivă unică asupra figurii „răufăcătorului”. Dacă ați apreciat tensiunea din mediile academice și personajele care manipulează totul cu sânge rece, For Your Own Good vă va capta atenția imediat. Câștigați o incursiune fascinantă în psihologia justificării crimei, totul într-un ritm alert care transformă o școală de prestigiu într-un teren minat.

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Samantha Downing este o autoare de succes, cunoscută la nivel internațional pentru abilitatea de a transforma scenarii domestice sau profesionale obișnuite în coșmaruri psihologice. Romanul său de debut, My Lovely Wife, a fost selecția clubului de carte Richard & Judy și a propulsat-o în topurile Sunday Times. Prin lucrări precum He Started It și A Twisted Love Story, Downing s-a specializat în explorarea secretelor întunecate ale unor oameni aparent normali. Locuiește în New Orleans, unde continuă să scrie thrillere apreciate pentru umorul negru și răsturnările de situație imprevizibile.

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THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY LOVELY WIFE

'Totally the real deal' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Brilliant' DAILY MAIL
'Irresistibly dark' T.M. LOGAN
'Dark, sly and delicious' J.P. DELANEY
'Absolutely terrific' SARAH PEKKANEN
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You want the absolute best for your child, and everyone agrees that's Belmont Academy.

At first you were impressed by Mr Crutcher, with his dedication to his students.

But something isn't right at that school.

It starts with small things . . . A teacher falling sick. Rumours about a former pupil going off the rails. Of course, you never guessed it could end in murder.

And now you have no idea who will be next . . .
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'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' B.A. Paris

'Dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun' Chris Whitaker

Praise for Samantha Downing:

'Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense' Harlan Coben

'The next Gone Girl' Marie Claire

'The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night' Jane Corry

Notă biografică

Samantha Downingwas born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in New Orleans. Her debut novel,My Lovely Wife, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and aSunday Timesbestseller, and has been published in thirty languages. It won a Dead Good Reader Award, and was shortlisted for four other major awards: The CWA John Creasey Dagger, The Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and The Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel. Her second novel,He Started It, was also aSunday Timesbestseller.

Recenzii

Samantha Downing istotally the real deal. Wry and dark and witty and clever.I didn't think she could outdoMy Lovely Wifebut I think this one tops it.
An irresistibly dark tale of parents, pupils and poison: the American dream turned suburban nightmare
Dark, sly and delicious...totally original - and totally compelling
Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end
I raced through this, andloved every twist and turn.Brilliant characterisation and ingenious plottingmake it an absolute winner.
I have loved all of the books by Samantha Downing, and this classroom thriller deserves an A+.Original, dark and highly addictive
I'm a huge fan of Samantha Downing, who is masterful at creatingdiabolical characters and deliciously chilling plots.An absolutely terrific book!
Samantha Downing has achieved something so special inFor Your Own Good.A story that is dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun
Samantha Downing serves up another cast of deliciously mendacious charactersin an exclusive private school setting,where the deadly action drives a brilliantly tense, taut and twisty plot. I may never look at my coffee in the same way again
Entertaining as hell, with trademark Downing twistedness. I loved it.
A slick and chilling thriller,leading readers on a dark, sinuous journey through the halls of Belmont Academy-the type of place whereyou're never sure who to trust, or who to fear.
Twistier than a corkscrew and utterly original,For Your Own Goodhooked me from the first pagewith its dark humour and no-let-up suspense
Wow! Samantha Downing has done it again.For Your Own Goodis utterly compelling, deliciously dark, and with perfect pacing that will have you racing to find out how it ends. I absolutely loved it
Adeliciously dark, fast-paced delight of a novelwith a maybe-maybe-not villain you'll secretly be rooting for. Highly recommended
Downing's spare prose packs a wallop as she deftly ratchets up the suspense with every hairpin turn of this lean, mean, surprising, and utterly propulsive thriller
So dark and twisted, so deliciously evil, it'll not only make you frantically turn those pages to find out who's targeting whom, but the wry sense of humor will have you laughing out loud, too.Another phenomenal wild-ride of a read from one of the crime-writing community's most talent authors. Bet you'll never look at high school the same way again
For Your Own Goodis a fresh take on the elite school thriller andthe perfect page turner
Witty and macabrewith a psycho teacher who is so real to me
Praise for Samantha Downing
We're calling it: My Lovely Wife isthe most gripping psychological thriller of 2019... this book will keep you reading late into the night
One of my favourite thrillers of the year- I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end.Dark, chilling and compelling
Wow!My Lovely Wifeis a stunner- full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense
One of the best thrillers I've ever read
So beautifully and elegantly written. . . A great twist -I loved it