The Hand That Feeds You, A.J. Rich
The Hand That Feeds You, A.J. Rich
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The Hand That Feeds You

Author: A.J. Rich

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2015


Synopsis

“An unnerving, elegant page-turner” (Vanity Fair) of psychological suspense about a woman in an intense sexual relationship with a man who turns out to be a predator—by celebrated writers Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment writing as A.J. Rich.

Morgan, thirty, is completing her thesis on victim psychology and newly engaged to Bennett, a man more possessive than those she has dated in the past, but also more chivalrous—and the sex is hot. She returns from class one day to find Bennett brutally mauled to death, and her beloved dogs covered in blood.

When Morgan tries to locate Bennett’s parents to tell them about their son’s hideous death, she discovers that everything he has told her—where he was born, where he lives in Montreal, where he works—was a lie. He is not the man he said he was, and he had several fiancées, all believing the same promises he gave Morgan. And then, one by one, these other women are murdered. Morgan’s research into Bennett has taken on new urgency: in order to stay alive, she must find out how an intelligent woman like herself, who studies predators, becomes a victim.

For readers of Girl on a Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, this “twisty, unsettling thriller” (The New York Times) is an “irresistible” (Vogue) collaboration between two outstanding writers. “The Hand That Feeds You goes from zero to terrifying in about five pages…Once this thriller gets its teeth into you, it doesn’t let go” (The Tampa Bay Times).

About A.J. Rich

Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories: Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. Her Collected Stories was published in 2006, and was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. She has won many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an inaugural USA Foundation Fellowship, and the PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story. She teaches writing at Bennington College and the University of Florida, and is a founding board member of two dog rescue nonprofit organizations: The Deja Foundation (DejaFoundation.org), and Morgan’s Place, a rescue in Connecticut. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and New York City. Jill Ciment is the author of Small Claims, a collection of stories and novellas; The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, Heroic Measures, and Act of God, novels; and Half a Life, a memoir. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a NEA Japan Fellowship Prize, two New York State Fellowships for the Arts, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  Ciment is a professor at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

- Αν δεν υπάρχουν σκύλοι στον Παράδεισο,τότε όταν πεθάνω θέλω να πάω όπου πήγαν κι εκείνοι. Will Rogers. Ένα δυνατό ψυχολογικό θρίλερ με μυστήριο και ανατροπές αλλα και αναπάντεχες εξελίξεις. Τα πάντα κινούνται γύρω απο την διαταραχή αντικοινωνικής συμπεριφοράς και την ψυχοπαθητική διαταραχή. Άνθρωπ......more

Goodreads review by Kristin

I was pretty disappointed. I didn't find it "smart" or "sexy" or "emotionally riveting" as the publisher suggests. The idea of a psychologist studying victimology while exhibiting traits of a victim herself was quite fascinating, but somehow it fell flat. I just can't get over how such a great conce......more

2.5 stars: I really enjoyed this book and I’m not sure why because it’s bad in so many ways. Yet, I couldn’t stop reading it. It’s Amazon’s best book of July 2015, which is interesting in that Amazon found it suspenseful as well, despite all the flaws. It’s a story of 30 year old woman who should kn......more