Killing Me Softly - Softcover

French, Nicci

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446696889 ISBN 13: 9780446696883

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Now that you've read GONE GIRL...

Alice Loudon has it all: a devoted boyfriend, a marvelous circle of friends, a challenging job as a research scientist. Then one morning, on her way to work, she exchanges a lingering look with a devastatingly attractive man. Adam Tallis is the essence of every female fantasy--a daring mountain climber who has been hailed as a hero. As a lover, he is more passionate than Alice's wildest imaginings. Soon there isn't anything or anyone she wouldn't give up to stay by his side. Soon all she has is Adam, and life with this stranger will take her to new heights of madness...and fear.

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Review:

Following the success of The Memory Game, Killing Me Softly is Nicci French's third novel--a genuinely compelling, often compulsive, study of love and violence. French is prepared to risk romantic fantasy: the chance encounter with a beautiful man in the street:--"He was wearing black jeans and a black leather jacket, and then I looked up at his face"- -who draws Alice, the narrator, away from her lover and her life. " ‘Please'," he said then, still not taking his eyes off my face. ‘Will you come with me?' " Adam Tallis is a hero: a sexual hero, certainly, but also a man--a climber--who has saved lives. Or has he? Told in continuous flashback, we know from the start of this novel that something has gone wrong, but what, why and who will remain in question. Adam is a seducer--a dangerous one--and French uses him to explore the devastation of requited love (what happens to a modern woman if she does marry an ideal?). But just how dangerous he is, who is threatened most by this passion, is part of the puzzle and intelligence of this book, right up to, and beyond, its remarkable conclusion.-- Vicky Lebeau

Review:

"A compulsive read...peak psychological suspense."--People magazine

"First-rate...geniune chills run down the spine..."--Orlando Sentinel

"French pulls off [sexual obsession] as well as anyone in recent memory."--Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0446696889
• ISBN 13: 9780446696883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384