"A beautifully written, provocative and unusual crime mystery that leaves a searing imprint behind."
A corkscrewing, fascinating, beautifully eloquent crime mystery. Psychologist and hypnotist James Cobb is asked to help a dying man who 40 years ago woke in a hotel room to find a dead body and no memory of what had happened. As he sinks deeper into the past searching for answers, Cobb finds his own history haunting his present. I was already fascinated by the synopsis, the prologue fully captured my attention and refused to let it go. The further I read the more question marks floated into my mind and took up residence. I felt unsettled as thoughts popped and sparked around me, making me consider and ponder possibilities. E. O. Chirovici writes with a provocative, thoughtful and undeniably elegant pen. I loved where this book took me, how it made me think. ‘Bad Blood’ is compelling, unusual, and full of surprises which left a searing imprint on my mind, and so I thoroughly recommend this fabulous read.
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This book will have you doubting your own memories.
James Cobb is a psychologist who gives talks on the subject of memories, and forgotten ones especially. He is asked by Joshua Fleischer to look into a forgotten memory of his, little does he know that this will have him doubting his own memories. The evening in Paris that Fleischer wants him to untangle culminates in the death of a young woman and James seems to get a different version of events from everyone he speaks to. Cobb feels he needs to get to the bottom of the mystery for his own sanity and to pacify some memories of his own that are threatening to resurface. I was taken in by some of the characters and thought I knew what had happened only for another to pop up and I was back wondering if he was ever going to know the truth.... Read Full Review
Can someone's memory hold the truth to an event that happened forty years earlier in a Paris hotel room? Can anyone's memory be relied upon?
Joshua Fleischer is a dying man wanting to clear his mind before he passes away. He needs the truth for something that happened forty years earlier in a Paris hotel, which resulted in the death of a young woman. He approaches an eminent psychiatrist, James Cobb, to help him find the truth with the aid of hypnosis. And so the story begins.
However, nothing is that straightforward. The more Cobb digs, especially after the death of Fleischer, the more tangled the web becomes. What I particularly liked was that just as you thought Cobb had uncovered the truth, another person involved has a different version, both of events and the individuals involved. One twist followed another.
It appears that everyone involved all those years ago had something to hide, not necessarily murder but secrets of their own.... Read Full Review
An intriguing exploration in search of the truth hidden in the past. What people remember isn't always a guarantee of the truth!
Well I have to say this book was really intriguing! I read the first few pages late one night and wasn't sure if this was a book for me as straight away it seemed very challenging with lots of psychology references! However from the next time I picked the book up I was hooked. This book is like a clever path leading you winding through people's lives tryng to discover the truth, which as always is never easy to find! Through the whole book I wasn't sure where it was going to lead me but I knew for certain I didn't want to stop.... Read Full Review
