I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

The psychological thriller is my favorite genre to read.  Packed with creepy surprises and unexpected turns, these stories are some of my favorites.  Alice Feeney's "I Know Who You Are" is one that delivers on all counts.  This book is filled with twists and turns that are easy to navigate, but rarely take you where you expect to go.  And, her ending is a complete surprise... right down to the last sentence from the main character.  Nothing is as it seems in this creepy tale.

I enjoy Feeney's ability to meld the past with the present in her writing.  She gives you backstory not by simple plot exposition, as so many other authors do; instead, she allows the characters to tell and show their own backstory by living through their histories in real time.  In other works, this jumping from past to present and back to past can sometimes be confusing, almost like two different stories happening simultaneously.  But Feeney has the distinct ability to run both timelines in parallel, which keeps you engaged in both times, and with all the characters in the today and the before.  It's fantastic skill.

This is another of those rare instances where I was treated with "Wow!" on the last page, and then ten full minutes of silence while I digested the experience.  I read this in audio book, and I must say, the narrator's tone, acumen with the pregnant pause, and slight voice changes made the work more enjoyable.  I highly recommend this book, if you like endings that grab your attention.

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