Psychiatrist Meredith McCall is in a fragile state, struggling to deal with the guilt she feels over an accident in which her husband killed two pedestrians. She didn’t write him the prescriptions after his doctor refused to, but she suspected his growing drug dependency and said nothing.
When she sees Gabriel Wright, the partner of the murdered woman, he is happy. She follows him, desperate to see how he has achieved this.
Her unease when he turns up as a new patient doesn’t stop her from continuing their sessions. So many boundaries are crossed here, and it’s hard to work out why she feels compelled to do this.
As the story unfolds we start to sense things are not quite what we think. Meredith seems incapable of leaving things alone, and we venture into dangerous territory.
We are led down the proverbial garden path and eventually come to see just how much so. Unsettling and deeply disturbing. Thanks to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this before publication.