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Our Kind of Cruelty

by Araminta Hall
7 CDs. 8 hrs. Macmillan Audio. May 2018. ISBN 9781427296832. $29.99. digital download. THRILLER
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Told in retrospect, primarily from the male protagonist's point of view, this is a tale of desire gone wrong told by unreliable narrator Mike Hayes, whose obsessive love for Verity Metcalf results in heartbreak and murder. Crave is a secret sex game concocted by Mike and Verity, and when "V" tires of the game and cuts it off, Mike chooses his own interpretation of her actions. As she goes on with her life, Mike becomes increasingly delusional and eventually targets Verity's new husband as the source of his pain and suffering. The primary narrator, actor Nick Hendrix of Midsomer Murders, is superb; he makes what is obviously an unreliable narrator sound reasonable.
VERDICT Recommend to fans of A.J. Finn's The Woman in the Window, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us, and books by JP Delaney, Gillian Flynn, and B.A. Paris—and don't forget Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. ["Though the ending will be predictable for avid thriller fans, the journey makes for a compulsive read": LJ Xpress Reviews 4/6/18 review of the Farrar hc.]
Reviewed by Sandra C. Clariday, Cleveland, TN , Sep 15, 2018
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