Publisher: William Morrow
Date of publication:September 2015
Whose secrets cut deeper?
Your family’s.
Your family’s.
Whose secrets do you fear?
Your neighbor’s.
Your neighbor’s.
Whose secrets can kill?
Your own.
Your own.
For Alex Mercer, his wife, Millicent, and their precocious
eleven-year-old son, Max, are everything—his little tribe that makes him feel
all’s right with the world. But when he and Max find their enigmatic next-door
neighbor dead in his apartment, their lives are suddenly and irrevocably
changed. The police begin an extremely methodical investigation, and Alex
becomes increasingly impatient for them to finish. After all, it was so clearly
a suicide.
As new information is uncovered, troubling questions
arise—questions that begin to throw suspicion on Alex, Millicent, and even Max.
Each of them has secrets it seems. And each has something to hide.
With the walls of their perfect little world closing in on
them day after day, husband, wife, and son must decide how far they’ll go to
protect themselves—and their family—from investigators carefully watching their
every move . . . waiting for one of them to make a mistake.
I'll be honest, it took me a while to figure out what to even say about this story, A Line of Blood is going to be a book you either love or don't. For me, I didn't. I did finish it all the way to the end and I just wouldn't recommend it. The book opens with Alex and his son finding their neighbor dead in his bathtub. It seems that it was a suicide at first. But the police begin to suspect that it was murder. Alex and his wife are thrown into the spotlight when things begin to not add up.
The thing I didn't like about this book was the characters. None of them are likable. In fact, they all kind of got what they deserved if you want my opinion. Millicent is the worst of the three. How Alex stayed with her after all of her secrets were revealed was beyond me. I wouldn't call this a thriller or entirely suspenseful. None of the secrets were very shocking, just unforgivable. The ending is pretty easy to figure out as there is enough foreshadowing if you look hard enough. So, why did I read through to the end? I had been looking forward to this book and I kept hoping it would get better. I was also hoping for a different ending. But it never came.
About Ben McPherson
Ben McPherson is a television producer, director, and writer
and for more than ten years worked for the BBC, among other outlets. He is
currently a columnist for Aftenposten, Norway’s leading quality daily,
and lives in Oslo with his wife and two children.
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2 comments:
Sorry to hear that you didn't like this book. I am pretty sure I won't be reading it either.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this book for the tour.
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