The Hand That Feeds You - Softcover

Rich, A.J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471148564 ISBN 13: 9781471148569

Publisher: Scribner, 2015

Synopsis

Morgan's life seems settled - she 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 passionate. But she returns from class one day to find Bennett savagely killed, and her dogs - a Great Pyrenees, and two pit bulls she was fostering - circling the body, covered in blood. Everything she holds dear in life is taken away from her in an instant. Devastated and traumatised, Morgan tries to locate Bennett's parents to tell them about their son's death. Only then does she begin to discover layer after layer of deceit. Bennett is not the man she thought he was. And she is not the only woman now in immense danger ...

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Review

An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Thirty-year-old Morgan Prager is working toward a degree in victim psychology, engaged to Bennett, a seductive but mysterious man she met online, and living with her three dogs, including two rescued pit bulls, in Brooklyn. One day Morgan returns home from class to find her dogs covered in what looks like blood. She follows them into the bedroom where she stumbles upon Bennett’s corpse torn limb from limb, presumably by the dogs themselves. Grief-stricken and traumatized, Morgan sets out to inform her fiancé’s family of his horrific death. No sooner than she peeks behind her lover’s veil of mystery does Morgan discover that everything he told her was a lie on top of a lie — from where he was born, to where he lives, to what he does for a living. Worse yet, Morgan learns that she wasn’t the only woman caught in Bennett’s demented web. But when the others turn up dead one by one, Morgan’s search for answers takes a startling turn: No longer is hers a quest for closure, but an every-second-counts struggle to stay alive. If not Bennett himself, then who is killing the women who love him? Is Morgan next? Urgent, shocking and impossible to put down, The Hand That Feeds You is a seductive, satisfying psychological thriller about attraction, deception, and the extent some people will go to get what they want. Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment (A.J. Rich) have crafted a novel that begs to be devoured but tastes even sweeter when consumed slowly, sentence by gripping sentence. – Andrew Eisenman

About the Author

Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories. She lives in New York. Jill Ciment is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short 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 lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1471148564
• ISBN 13: 9781471148569
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 273