Peter Caine is a merciless Manhattan defense attorney who
may seem to be charming on the outside. However, beneath the
mask, he is a cold and heartless man who doesn't care about
other people's feelings. He doesn't even harbor any
feelings for his own son Jamie, and he is less than pleased
when he has to take him in after Peter's ex-wife dies. But,
his life will change dramatically when his ex-lover, the
daughter of the Manhattan DA is murdered and Peter is one of
the suspects.
Reading a book about a sociopath was, to be honest, not a
nice experience. I like to at least feel some sympathy for
the main character. However, it was a nasty experience
spending time inside Peter's head. Also, I had a hard time
understanding why someone would find him charming. Yes, a
sociopath can be charming, but he was so far from charming.
Treating everyone in the book as crap that I mentally
scratched my head wondering what women saw in him? In
flashbacks, we can see how he met Juliette and married her.
Frankly, he was so appalling that I can only think that
Juliette married him because he reminded her of her own
father. A man she despised. Yeah, I still can't understand
what she saw in him.
As for the mystery part, the murder of Charlie Doyle. I
found it very easy to figure out who had done it so no
surprise towards the end of ONCE A LIAR. My main problem was
how to deal with Peter being more and more a likely
candidate for the murder, is he being framed or did he do
it? And do I care? And, it's just my struggle with that
what makes this book actually interesting. How to deal with
a really loathsome main character? You usually want the
person in question to innocent and proven so in the end.
But, what if he's really really nasty? Yeah, let's just
say that I'm still struggling a bit with the ending.
American Psycho meets Behind Closed
Doors in this electrifying psychological thriller, in
which a high-powered sociopath meets his reckoning when
he's accused of the brutal murder of his
mistress.
Did he kill Charlie Doyle? And
if he didn't… who did?
Peter Caine, a cutthroat
Manhattan defense attorney, worked ruthlessly to become the
best at his job. On the surface, he is charming and
handsome, but inside he is cold and heartless. He fights
without remorse to acquit murderers, pedophiles and
rapists.
When Charlie Doyle, the daughter of the
Manhattan DA—and Peter's former lover—is murdered, Peter's
world is quickly sent into a tailspin. He becomes the prime
suspect as the DA, a professional enemy of Peter's, embarks
on a witch hunt to avenge his daughter's death, stopping at
nothing to ensure Peter is found guilty of the
murder.
In the challenge of his career and his life,
Peter races against the clock to prove his innocence. As the
evidence mounts against him, he's forced to begin
unraveling his own dark web of lies and confront the sins of
his past. But the truth of who killed Charlie Doyle is more
twisted and sinister than anyone could have imagined…
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