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Dangerous Disappearing Acts, With Killers in Pursuit. NYT Book Review
Dangerous Disappearing Acts, With Killers in Pursuit. New York Times Book Review CRIME. Roundups of crime novels by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review.
A version of this article appears in print on June 10, 2018, on Page 9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: No Safe Haven
You can’t blame Charlie Donlea if the ending of his novel makes your jaw drop.
The title alone — Don't Believe It (Kensington, $26) — is fair warning that his characters are no more to be trusted than are our initial impressions of them.
This much we do know:
In 2007, a vacationing medical student named Julian Crist was pushed to his death from the top of Gros Piton on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Julian’s girlfriend, Grace Sebold, has spent 10 years in prison for the murder when Sidney Ryan gets the green light to make a TV series about her called “The Girl of Sugar Beach.”
Now here comes the twist:
Sidney’s documentary will follow in real time her personal investigation of the murder and will end, she hopes, in Grace’s exoneration. But by the eighth installment of the show, which has been wildly successful, Sidney is beginning to suspect she’s been deceived, and that her great coup was actually a con job. On the one hand, her career could be mud; on the other hand, you can’t argue with those ratings.
Learn more about Charlie Donlea's DON'T BELIEVE IT. Available NOW in Hardcover, Paperback, and audio format. US and AU editions. Website
Other Books Included: John Connolly The Woman in the Woods, Charlton Pettus Exit Strategy, and Pamela Wechsler The Fens.
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Add Don't Believe It to Your Goodreads List.
—Charlie Donlea
June 10, 2018
A version of this article appears in print on June 10, 2018, on Page 9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: No Safe Haven
You can’t blame Charlie Donlea if the ending of his novel makes your jaw drop.
The title alone — Don't Believe It (Kensington, $26) — is fair warning that his characters are no more to be trusted than are our initial impressions of them.
This much we do know:
In 2007, a vacationing medical student named Julian Crist was pushed to his death from the top of Gros Piton on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Julian’s girlfriend, Grace Sebold, has spent 10 years in prison for the murder when Sidney Ryan gets the green light to make a TV series about her called “The Girl of Sugar Beach.”
Now here comes the twist:
Sidney’s documentary will follow in real time her personal investigation of the murder and will end, she hopes, in Grace’s exoneration. But by the eighth installment of the show, which has been wildly successful, Sidney is beginning to suspect she’s been deceived, and that her great coup was actually a con job. On the one hand, her career could be mud; on the other hand, you can’t argue with those ratings.
Learn more about Charlie Donlea's DON'T BELIEVE IT. Available NOW in Hardcover, Paperback, and audio format. US and AU editions. Website
Other Books Included: John Connolly The Woman in the Woods, Charlton Pettus Exit Strategy, and Pamela Wechsler The Fens.
Read More
Add Don't Believe It to Your Goodreads List.
—Charlie Donlea
June 10, 2018
