Date: May 10, 2025
Author: Jenny Blackhurst
Genre: psychological thriller, domestic suspense
Fun fact: The UK does not say toilet paper, instead it’s called a loo roll. And a pacifier is known as a dummy.
I looked for every chink in this stories’ metaphorical armor and couldn’t come up with any. Mz. Blackhurst even earned a final ‘wow’ from me as I closed these pages, one last time.
I really thought Mz. Blackhurst had bitten off more than she can chew when I first dove into this gem. To get you caught up, what had happened was Karen, a psychologist, had taken on a new client and was shocked to hear this girl talk flippantly about the man she was having an affair with right in front of his wife’s nose, talking in their sessions about rifling through the wife’s house and tormenting wife and wife’s friends.
As the sessions progressed Karen began to realize her client was indeed speaking in reference to one of her best friends’ marriages without actually saying any incriminating names and such, so Karen didn’t have proof to bring the cops and continued to let herself be bound by patient/doctor confidentiality. The longer she waited on this information though, the more the client was setting her up to look like the crazy one. Oh, how the tables were turned on this poor psychologist.
Karen knew she had to warn everyone. But how? Without getting herself into legal trouble? What if she was right, though, her friends could truly be in danger? Oh, what to do?