Look Closer – Book Review

Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more a wealthy Chicago couple with a stable, if unexciting, marriage. But with these two… absolutely nothing is what it seems. When a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky’s complex web of secrets begins to unravel. A whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due. A decades-long grudge and an obsession with revenge. Both Vicky and Simon are liars–but just who exactly is conning who? Prepare to question everything you think you know in this wickedly clever novel of greed, revenge, obsession–and quite possibly the perfect murder.

This was a mind blowing thriller and what a page turning thriller!

Simon Dobias is a law professor and is married to Vicky Lanier, an advocate in helping the survivors of domestic abuse. They seem to be happily married, until Simon involves in a love affair with Laure Bentancourt, a socialite. Vicky also gets involved with a financier named Christian Newsom, who turns out to be a fraud, scamming married women and is using an alias. Then Lauren was found murdered and the whole story involves a million-dollar trust fund that belonged to Simon and Vicky wants to get hold of the trust. This novel talks about love, deceit and revenge.

The story is very well written, packed with so many twists and turns. The story is told mainly in the POVs of Simon, Vicky, Christian and Jane, the woman who is in charge of Lauren’s murder case. Simon, Vicky and Christian are all unreliable characters and so as a reader, you are not sure if they are lying or being truthful. The climax reaches towards the ending, where it will actually make the reader gasp out loud in surprise–a complete and unexpected twist and the end! I actually enjoyed this mind blowing page turning thriller and I couldn’t put the book, despite the fact that the book was a bit more than 400 pages long.

All in all, if you are looking for a domestic thriller with suspense packed with twists and turns, then this book is for you. I cannot wait to read more book from this author–worth five stars.