Faces of Fear, John Saul
Faces of Fear, John Saul
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Faces of Fear

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2008


Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Allison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesn’t really care. She is happier hanging with her friends and playing sports than admiring herself in a mirror. But when her mother, Risa, marries the premier plastic surgeon Conrad Dunn, he moves them from Santa Monica to his enormous home in exclusive Bel Air.Everywhere Allison and her mother look beautiful people have benefited from Conrad’s skillful knife. With her new friends’ encouragement, Allison and her mother reluctantly agree to her sweet-sixteen gift from Conrad: breast implants.Risa begins to realize Conrad’s obsession with his deceased wife. She discovers not only his fixation with the beautiful dead Margot, but other dark, murky secrets begin to surface, as well, pointing to a more sinister agenda. What else does he have in mind for her daughter? Is it too late to save Allison from the scalpel of her ever so charming husband?

About John Saul

House of Reckoning is John Saul’s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.


Reviews

I used to love John Saul's books. They were haunting and atmospheric, usually taking place in some cozy seaside town where one would THINK nothing bad happens. (This is John Saul so think again.) But over the years many of his books lost that feeling and descended into straight up horror without that......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Fantastic novel that really ran shivers down my spine. Who is the grizly Frankenstein killer taking special parts of his victims? What has the series of murder cases to do with cosmetic surgeon Conrad Dunn? What about his stepdaughter Alison and his new wife Risa? Classic Saul and satire against Ame......more

Well.. This book.. I don't know.. It didn't feel like a John Saul book to me.. I've been on a spree of his books.. Just recently having read Devils Labyrinth, House of Reckoning, Suffer the Children, and I enjoyed those books.. This just didn't seem like the same weirdly intriguing paranormal thrill......more