"An intricately woven tale of deceit that delves into the depths of human emotion."
Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted March 13, 2010
Suspense Psychological
Is the connection between a husband and a wife about physical appearance, some mystical and romantic recognition of souls, or merely the day-to-day routines that form habit and convenience? Such high-brow philosophy is not usually at the top of Susanne Lasko's thought processes. She's not stupid; it's just that on one momentous day, her primary concerns revolve around her hopes to do well at a job interview. Instead, she gets thrown into the strangest of modern prince-and-the-pauper situations when she meets a woman with her face, a woman far more interested in her than she is in anything this woman, this Nadia Trenkler, can offer her. THE LIE quickly develops beyond the potential predictability of its initial set up and forces the reader to plunge into layers of intrigue that are well-worth unraveling. Learn more about THE LIE
SUMMARYβ...One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to
carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the
reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps,
turning the pages of this remarkable book.ββThe
Independent (UK) Praise for Petra
Hammesfahr's The Sinner: βThe
Sinner is best psychological suspense novel I have read
all year.ββDaily Telegraph βDubbed Germanyβs
answer to Patricia Highsmith, Hammesfahr should win new fans
with this novel.βPublishers Weekly
βDemonstrates why she is one of Germany's bestselling
writers of crime and psychological thrillers. It's grim,
delves deep into the human psyche, and keeps you
gripped.βThe Times (London) Nadia and
Susanne look uncannily alike, but one of the women is
seriously rich and the other is destitute. When Nadia asks
Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband so that she
can sneak off with a lover, how can Susanne refuse the
outrageous payment on offer? Nadia and her husband barely
speak to each other and he will be working most of the
weekend. Easy money, or so it seems. One Friday
afternoon Susanne drives Nadiaβs Alfa to her beautiful
suburban villa with its indoor pool and glass doors opening
onto the sloping lawn. This first stay is followed by
others, as an apparently harmless game becomes a deadly web
of lies. Petra Hammesfahr, born in
1951, has not had an easy life: she left school at thirteen
and became pregnant by an alcoholic husband at seventeen.
She published her first novel when she was forty and has
since written over twenty crime and suspense novels. Petra
also writes scripts for television and film. She has won
numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of
Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize.
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