Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney, 2021
A marriage-saving weekend in the Scottish Highlands becomes a test of memory, trust and weather as a husband and wife discover how little they know each other.
Alice Feeney
Alice Feeney writes domestic thrillers where the tension comes from memory and marriage rather than chases: a husband and wife in a snowed-in Scottish house in «Rock Paper Scissors», a narrator whose account of events keeps shifting in «Sometimes I Lie». If you like your suspense built from what people say to each other and what they leave out, start with «Sometimes I Lie».
Feels like unease, serenity and memory.
Start with Rock Paper Scissors.
Alice Feeney is a former BBC journalist; Rock Paper Scissors was a New York Times bestseller.
A marriage held together by a wedding ring and a storm outside.
Farther inland, a forest engulfs us. Ancient pine trees, dusted with snow, and taller than our house, are being bent out of shape by the storm as though they are matchsticks. The wind wails like a ghost outside the car, constantly trying to blow us off course, and when we slide a little on the icy road, I grip the steering wheel so tight that the bones in my fingers seem to protrude through my skin. I notice my wedding ring. A solid reminder that we are still together, despite all the reasons we should perhaps be apart. Books by Alice Feeney
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney, 2017
A narrator who cannot be trusted picks apart memory, marriage and the stories we tell ourselves, in a thriller built on what is heard and what is said.
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Alice Feeney, 2022
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