Close Your Eyes

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Dar vienas neįtikėtinai įtraukiantis trileris, kuris prikaustys nuo pirmų puslapių, ir užmins daug mįslių, į kurias bus sunku surasti atsakymus. Towards the end, the search for Millie, however, was quite unbelievable. Jo and he ex – Steve - find what the cops cannot? Seemed almost too easy for them. But the police had been investigating all that time. Didn’t seem plausible. All of these books work exceptionally well as standalones and if you haven’t read any yet, you really should – I always start a series at the beginning and thoroughly recommend all 9 books. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get round to reading the Tom Douglas series by Rachel Abbott. I’m always wary about starting a series several books in, but I am so glad I decided to the latest, Close Your Eyes. It can absolutely be read as a standalone, so if you’re new to this series as well, you don’t need to have read the previous books. But I’ll definitely be catching up on them.

I don’t think I’ll ever kill off Tom Douglas. Most detectives have some kind of flaw – their marriages are breaking up, they drink too much, sometimes they’re almost derelicts – but I intentionally wrote Tom as a good person. Readers love him.’ Rachel's novels have now been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 5 million copies.There are the author's trademark twists and turns which make for a highly entertaining read. The characters are very authentic, I really liked Martha and thoroughly disliked a number of the others. It is testament to Rachel's writing that I felt so strongly about the individuals. Right Behind You sees the very welcome return of Tom Douglas - I do love a Tom Douglas novel. This is brilliant and tense novel full of mystery, misdirection and mistrust. I really enjoyed it. I enjoy seeing Tom Douglas come almost full circle as he is now enjoying a loving relationship with a wonderful woman and is once again a father. Tom's love for his daughter has not diminished by the arrival of the new baby. He seems to finally have the life he wants.

This is the ninth in the Tom Douglas series but it can be easily read as a standalone. I really recommend it. With Martha’s chapters told in the first person and the rest of the story in the third, I felt as though I were being drawn in to Martha’s world and as events unfolded I had more questions needing answers. I had various scenarios going around in my head and I was desperate to know if I was right.

Summary

This was such a pacy and an addictive read. As soon as Martha flees the premises, I wanted to know what prompted her to do so. What was it that she didn’t want the police to know? I absolutely loved this premise, and it kept me asking what was really going on here. I liked the story but there were way too many details about things I didn’t care about. I just wanted to get to the point and find Millie. I first interviewed Rachel in 2016 when Kill Me Again came out and then every year since except last. There is a very important Author's Note at the end. I found the information extremely accurate and it shows Rachel Abbott did her due diligence properly researching the topic.

Na prisipažinsiu, skaičiau tam, kad perskaityt ir daugmaž sužinoti, kuo viskas pasibaigs,bet didelio įspūdžio nepaliko. Martha is a complicated character. The telling of her story unfolds throughout the book, little by little. Quite the enigma, Tom Douglas seems not to know what to make of her. In 2018 Rachel released the first book in a new series - And So It Begins. This was followed by The Murder Game in 2020 (The Invitation in the US). Nobody can understand why Genevieve Strachan would leave her home, late at night, wearing high heels, and end up battered and stabbed. Murdered just minutes away from her own front door, with no clue as to why.Kažkas stebi Džo, laukdamas/a tinkamos progos. Diena po dienos tūno jai už nugaros, bet Džo to nepastebi,nes ji tik regi savo nepriekaištingą pasaulį. Džo turi viską:namus, kurių nevertina, nuostabų vyrą, už kurio nenori tekėti, ir vaiką, be kurio Ašas (Džo partneris, ir netikras mergaitės tėtis) mano negalįs gyventi. Džo turi tai, ko kažkas kitas trokšta ir iš jos tai bus atimta. THE last time I spoke to Rachel Abbot was in February 2019 when The Shape Of Lies was published, her ninth DCI Tom Douglas novel. She was then dubbed ‘the queen of the psychological thriller’. In Close Your Eyes, the body of the wife of an up and coming businessman is found not far from their home. Her husband has set up a company that is currently developing an app that can accurately predict what will happen in your day. But what is really going on here? When Tom Douglas and his team arrive at the offices, a young woman, Martha Porter, flees, hoping to avoid speaking to the police. But why does she run? Has she got something to do with the murder? And what is the connection between what is happening now and a cult formed twenty-odd years earlier? Her first Stephanie King novel, the appropriately titled And So It Begins, came out in 2018. Was it a conscious effort to get away from Tom Douglas? The elements of the story were so clever and as usual, the narrative led me through cleverly interwoven ideas that swept me along and made this another book of Rachel Abbott's that I just couldn't put down. I was enthralled from the first revelation of the police and social workers, and I still didn't realise the twist until it was revealed - a fact I love because I truly enjoy this genre of book and have become harder to surprise - this was certainly achieved!