Title: Untouchable
Author: Sibel Hodge
Narrators: Shaun Grindell, Henrietta Meire, Simon Vance
Narrators: Shaun Grindell, Henrietta Meire, Simon Vance
Read: December 2017
My
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟
Book Description:
It’s Maya and Jamie’s anniversary, and she waits with
excitement for him to return home for a celebratory dinner. There’s a knock at
the door. It’s the police. Jamie has been found hanging in a local wood.
His death is ruled a suicide, but Maya doesn’t believe Jamie would take his own life. Something isn’t right. Someone has broken into her house. Someone is watching her. And someone has gone to great lengths to cover up what Jamie was doing before he died.
Maya’s grief turns to suspicion, and as she begins to investigate the weeks leading up to Jamie’s death, her trail leads her to a place known as “The Big House” and the horrific secrets within. Secrets people will stop at nothing to keep hidden. People linked to the heart of the Establishment who think they’re untouchable.
Now Maya has a dangerous decision to make. How far is she prepared to go to reveal the truth?
His death is ruled a suicide, but Maya doesn’t believe Jamie would take his own life. Something isn’t right. Someone has broken into her house. Someone is watching her. And someone has gone to great lengths to cover up what Jamie was doing before he died.
Maya’s grief turns to suspicion, and as she begins to investigate the weeks leading up to Jamie’s death, her trail leads her to a place known as “The Big House” and the horrific secrets within. Secrets people will stop at nothing to keep hidden. People linked to the heart of the Establishment who think they’re untouchable.
Now Maya has a dangerous decision to make. How far is she prepared to go to reveal the truth?
My musings:
Wow – this certainly was a powerful, disturbing and haunting
tale of abuse and revenge! Apparently some scenes in the book were inspired by
real police investigations, and Hodge has obviously done her homework, not holding back when
describing the full horror of unspeakable acts committed to the children in
this story. As a warning to the faint hearted: some of the scenes in this book
are very explicit and contain graphic
descriptions of child sexual and psychological abuse that will
definitely disturb some readers. I listened to the audio version, and felt that
some of the images it evoked were upsetting and sickening – even more so to
know that these events are not pure fiction and are based on real life events.
I shuddered many times when exposed to the full horror of some of the
children’s ordeal, and must admit that I found the revenge part not nearly as
satisfying as I had hoped. How can such terrible acts ever be truly avenged?
If you like dark and disturbing thrillers that contain a
certain element of conspiracy theory on a larger scale, and are able to stomach
the more explicit details, then this is the right book for you! I found some of
the political details the story is based on quite intriguing, and it certainly
challenged my trust in law enforcement and democracy as a whole, even though
some of Mitchell’s theories seemed a bit over the top. I applaud the author for
tackling such a difficult and emotionally charged topic and weaving it into a
multi-layered and gripping thriller. Whilst it was more a tale of seeking
justice and revenge than a psychological thriller, it made for a captivating
read and I am looking forward to reading more from this author in future.
A solid and heart-felt performance by all three narrators, which made the audiobook version a great choice!
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