From the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession–and quite possibly the perfect murder.
Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure … absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer.
When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky’s secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due. A decades-long grudge and obsession with revenge. These are just a few of the lies that make up the complex web…and they will have devastating consequences. And while both Vicky and Simon are liars, just who exactly is conning who?
Part Gone Girl, part Strangers on a Train, Look Closer is a wild rollercoaster of a read that will have you questioning everything you think you know.
Book info: 464 pages. Published by GP Putnam’s Sons on 5 July 2022
My Thoughts
WOW, WOW, WOW!
It’s very, very rare that I recommend a book before I’ve even finished it, but at 75% through this book I had to let my online book club, THE Book Club on Facebook, know just how damn good Look Closer is, and I knew that this was going to go straight into my TOP TEN books of 2024 regardless of the ending.
This is my first book by David Ellis which had been sitting in my “wishlist” on Amazon for ages and being a compulsive reader I check my wishlist at least twice a day to see which books have been reduced in price and on 1st March this year it dropped to 99p so I bought it and promptly forgot all about it until last month.
Firstly, I don’t think anything I write here can do this book the justice it deserves, words fail me, unlike the main character Simon who LOVES word games. Honestly I would read a book purely based on Simon’s word games!
I really don’t want to give anything away in my review, but obviously I need to say something to encourage you to read this book so I will just say this: Look Closer is insanely brilliant, it’s fiendishly clever, nothing is what it seems, no-one is who they claim to be, everyone has an ulterior motive, believe nothing and buckle up for a mind-blowing thriller.
