The follow-up to Before I Go to Sleep echoes Fifty Shades of Grey in its investigation of the sex games that led to the murder of a young woman in Paris
In the current biggest sellers of mystery fiction – Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train – absent women are a constant presence. So one distinction of another recent mega hit in the genre – SJ Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep – was that the girl was still around, with only her memory gone.
More conventionally, Watson’s successor to his super-selling debut turns on a girl who is gone. A young woman called Kate Plummer has been murdered in Paris in what French cops consider a mugging gone wrong, but, at the start of a 432-page novel, clearly won’t have been. And soon, the victim’s older sister and the novel’s narrator, Julia Plummer, is told by Kate’s flatmate, Anna, that the dead woman was in the habit of having sex – first virtual, then physical – with men she met online.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
In the current biggest sellers of mystery fiction – Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train – absent women are a constant presence. So one distinction of another recent mega hit in the genre – SJ Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep – was that the girl was still around, with only her memory gone.
More conventionally, Watson’s successor to his super-selling debut turns on a girl who is gone. A young woman called Kate Plummer has been murdered in Paris in what French cops consider a mugging gone wrong, but, at the start of a 432-page novel, clearly won’t have been. And soon, the victim’s older sister and the novel’s narrator, Julia Plummer, is told by Kate’s flatmate, Anna, that the dead woman was in the habit of having sex – first virtual, then physical – with men she met online.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.