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Jun 22, 2020AMWayment rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
"Her silence was like a mirror - reflecting yourself back at you. And it was often an ugly sight." When Theo Faber, criminal psychotherapist, takes a new job at The Grove, he is well aware of their most famous patient, Alicia Berenson. The woman caught red-handed after killing her husband and who has remained silent since. In fact, Theo's goal is to work with her, to see if he can get her to reveal what really happened on the night her husband was killed. He's not sure he believes the official story. Through Theo's perspective, his investigation, and Alicia's own diary entries, the reader is brought along on a hair-raising mystery that is not for the faint of heart. The use of the diary entries, paired with Theo's investigations, made for a perfectly paced reveal! Did Alicia kill her husband, as all the evidence suggests? If so, what was her motive? Why hasn’t she uttered a single word in all these years? This is a compelling mystery. Alicia an enigma, to be sure. This is unsettling enough on its own merits. Was the twist good and unexpected? Yes. Did you have to suspend your disbelief a bit to make it work in your head? Yes.