The Tutor, Peter Abrahams
The Tutor, Peter Abrahams
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The Tutor
A Novel of Suspense

Author: Peter Abrahams

Narrator: James Daniels

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, Julian seems like the answer to a prayer. He's bright, courteous, refined, and connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. They embrace Julian almost as a member of the family. But the tutor has his own dark agenda. For Julian, the Gardners are like specimens in jars, creatures to be studied - and manipulated. Each member of the family unintentionally reveals a secret to the tutor, giving him just the ammunition he needs to destroy them, one by one. Only Ruby, the Gardners' eleven year-old daughter, senses that Julian might not be what he seems and sets out to combat this seductive evil.

About Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams is the author of The Tutor, The Last of the Dixie Heroes, A Perfect Crime, Crying Wolf, and The Fan, which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife and four children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ahmed

Peter Abrahams' "The Tutor" gifted me with a lot of "firsts". It had been lying on my shelf for a while after being the first book I pick up from a library and was delightfully the first thriller novel I ever read. Up till then I had been occupied with a weird variety of genres. From childhood "horro......more

A while back (late 1980s/early 1990s) there was a spate of suspense movies I think of as "cuckoo in the nest" stories. The cuckoo, as most people know, is notorious for laying its eggs in the nests of unsuspecting birds, so that its huge, demanding chick crowds out the rightful fledglings and steals......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

Very limp domestic thriller, particularly so for one that starts with an erection, literally, first sentence and there it is. Notably clever and able Sherlock obsessed kid (by far the shining star of this production), a bunch of clueless adults and an oddly bland psychopath square off after a simple......more

Goodreads review by Tim H.

I loved it. Abrahams has a knack for getting inside each characters' head and even writing in a different style for each one's POV. It's subtle, but it's there. I'm also a big fan with how he shows us the characters through their actions instead of through his descriptions of them. A great read til......more