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A Perfect Family Kindle Edition
Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have him as a boyfriend. Ellen doesn’t just love Jack, she loves his entire family—so perfect, so wealthy, so envied by the neighbours.
Then, one terrible Saturday morning, Ellen and Jack visit his family home—and find six hanging bodies.
Little by little, Ellen learns that beneath the family’s glossy façade was a seething cauldron of abuse, dysfunction, and toxicity that she couldn’t have imagined. But the more Jack reveals about why he had to leave the house and its dark secrets, the more Ellen wonders: Did he narrowly escape tragedy—or does he know much more about the carnage than he’s admitting?
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBloodhound Books
- Publication dateAugust 22, 2022
- File size1565 KB
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- ASIN : B0B6P7ZQ6C
- Publisher : Bloodhound Books (August 22, 2022)
- Publication date : August 22, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 1565 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 248 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #381,616 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #815 in Women's Psychological Fiction
- #4,778 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #6,769 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Sarah was born in London and now lives in a village in South Northamptonshire. She gained a Masters degree in Eighteenth-Century French and English art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, before teaching art in secondary schools for thirteen years. After working with human rights organisations that protect minority groups from institutional abuse, Sarah worked towards a PhD at The Open University, researching the effect of secrecy on marginalised people, specifically the biological children of Roman Catholic priests. She has spoken about her research on various news programmes for the BBC and other media outlets around the world. It was this sense of secrecy and silencing that became the inspiration for her first crime novel, The Convent.
Sarah is hugely obsessed with reading and is amassing such an unrealistically large book collection that some of it is now in storage. She is also addicted to writing, and after inventing stories (mostly in secret) from a young age and having various articles and short stories published, she wrote a children's book, The Top Secret Diary of Davina Dupree - inspired by her daughter - in 2013. Overjoyed to hear that young readers were enjoying the story, she went on to write a series about Davina Dupree.
When she is not looking after her three children and menagerie of pets, or going for long walks with her wonderful partner Rich, Sarah can be found writing, while consuming large amounts of chocolate.
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A perfect Family starts with the bodies of six family members, just hanging died from the conservatory roof. The week from Halloween, the whole Bryant Clan but Jack Bryant the only surviving immediate family. His mother, grandmother, sisters, and brothers suspended from the ceiling. A uniform officer with the two paramedics was Detective Sergeant Moretti. this Saturday morning. Ellen and Jack saw the bodies of Jack family and his Auntie Marjorie and Patrick comes to comfort and find out what happen in the family home. Ellen's Waldron mom reminding her not everything was perfect in the Bryant family, what you see on the outside is not what happens on the inside of that home. They were a complicated family. This is a novel that is a total thriller, with a crime story of fantastic.
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Her Stand-Alone Novels Include:
Devil's Play (2021)
Girl in Bed Three (2022)
A Perfect Family (2022)
This is my review of A Perfect Family.
Six family members of the same family, the Bryants, were found hanging in their conservatory. Detective Sergeant Moretti, who is now leading the investigation, has not disclosed causes of death…suicide or murder.
Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have him as a boyfriend. Ellen doesn’t just love Jack, she loves his entire family—so perfect, so wealthy, so self-assured and confident. She had first met Jack through his sister, Sabrina, and had been in love with Jack for quite a while, but she could never tell him how she felt about him, for fear of ruining the friendship.
Then, one terrible Saturday morning, the victims were discovered by the eldest son, Jack Bryant, and his best friend and roommate, nineteen-year-old Ellen. They had gone to visit his family home.
After the discovery of the family victims, Jack is numb and unable to speak or cope with the situation. He had lost his whole immediate family. Ellen, while devastated, knew she needed to look after Jack, making sure he was surviving the ordeal.
But Ellen’s mum warns Ellen that “the Bryant family is a complicated one.”
Little by little, Ellen learns that beneath the family outward appearance, there was abuse and dysfunction. But the more Jack reveals about why he had to leave the house and its dark secrets, the more Ellen wonders if Jack is involved in any of this.
This was a well-written thriller with relatable characters and short chapters to build up the tension.
Many thanks to the author, and Bloodhound Books for my digital copy.
Top reviews from other countries
Read it in a day couldn’t put it down
I love the humour and sensitivity of the book
Definitely recommend this to others
But as I said, the storyline is brilliant!