"This wickedly compulsive thriller melds a complex murder case and forensic sleep psychology with ancient classical revenge tragedies and Shakespearean drama."
At one point, Professor Ben Prince, the protagonist of Matthew Blake’s Anna O debut comments on “the twisted horrors of the human mind”, and in many ways that’s what lies at the heart of this murder mystery thriller. Undeniably page-turning as it sees Ben, a forensic sleep psychologist, utilise new techniques to wake a woman accused of murder from her four-year sleep so she can stand trial, it’s incredibly entertaining, and outrageously twisty.
Anna Ogilvy (AKA Anna O) is the accused in question — “Sleeping Beauty, a figure of myth and reality”, while Ben is the Prince tasked with waking her. He works for a private sleep clinic on Harley Street. And, while the case comes with close scrutiny from the government, “Anna O is the holy grail for all sleep experts.
Ever since it happened, over four years ago now, she has been the one mystery to beat them all.” Adding to the case’s allure Anna O’s namesake was the first patient of psychoanalysis, treated by Freud.
When Ben manages to wake Anna, all hell breaks loose in a thrilling story of deception, betrayal and revenge. With the narrative playing out in the dangerous here-and-now, and through Anna’s notebooks, Ben embarks on an obsessive search for the truth. Then, just when you’ve kind-of recovered from one set of twisted revelations - bam! What an ending.
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*Don't miss A Murder in Paris, the brand new twisty thriller from Matthew Blake, available to buy now*THE SMASH HIT NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ~ A GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH ~ TV IN DEVELOPMENT WITH NETFLIX'The twist is one of the best I've read' David Baldacci'Anna O reads like a dream but unsettles like a nightmare' A J Finn____IT'S THE CRIME OF THE CENTURYEveryone knows the Anna O case.Everyone knows it was her fingerprints on the knife.But no-one knows the secrets of her sleepwalking.No-one knows whether she really meant to kill that night.As a trial nears, the mystery reawakens.Is she innocent, or guilty?IT'S TIME TO PICK A SIDE____Readers are DREAMING of Anna O:'This is my favourite book of 2024 ... the bar has been set'?????'This book is a true definition of murder mystery'?????'A triumph! It'll keep you awake at night'?????'Explosive twists and turns that lead to a sensational finale' ?????'Well worthy of five stars' ?????'Mindblowing and suspenseful!' ?????'This story has it all' ?????.
Anna O features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Fiction, General Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Fiction: narrative themes, Debut Books of the Month, Debuts, Recommendations
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Anna O was written by Matthew Blake and published by HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Anna O has 432 pages
