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Title: Delusion

Author: Peter Abrahams

Narrator: Ken Marks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty years ago, Alvin DuPree was jailed for murdering Nell Jarreau's boyfriend - on the strength of Nell's testimony. Now, Alvin has been exonerated. Wondering whether she was delusional, Nell searches for answers by digging through her painful past - and sets foot on a path leading directly to Alvin.

Critic Reviews:

"The best writer of psychological suspense around." (National Public Radio)

Members Reviews:

Something of a Misfire

Maybe the Katrina catastrophe is too vast to be turned so easily into the mere backstory for a thriller plot, not this soon. I get it that Bernadine equals Katrina, Belle Ville equals New Orleans, and maybe there were some liability issues that led to these name changes, but they forced the novel into a fakey mode it never really gets out of.

I yield to no one in my admiration for Peter Abrahams, and his new Ingrid Levin Hill book is among the best he's ever written, but DELUSION just never takes fire. Nell is a conflicted character at best, and why does Abrahams lay such stress on her museum/curatorial background if none of it is going to come up later in the story? It's ironic that a woman trained to see things should get something wrong so badly, but Abrahams never points this up, in fact, by the middle of the story you realize that no one is gaslighting Nell, she really did mis-identify the wrong man, and blaming somebody else doesn't take her off the hook.

As for the subplot of Norah, the horrid Lindsay Lohan type daughter, well, as other reviewers have noted, Norah is unsalvageable. Ok, Abrahams, we get that you're doing a postmodern update of Hamlet. But if you want a good modern suspense re-do of HAMLET, you should have taken notes on Charlotte Armstrong's 1960 novel A LITTLE LESS THAN KIND, for it does everything you have tried to do, but far better, and nearly 50 years ago. And also you could have hired a copy editor who could have counted for you the number of times you used the phrase "tiny weapon" in regards to Pirate's eye socket, and given the editor a bonus for eliminating at least half of them because it's ungodly bad.

Better luck next time because, you are a genius and my fan worship will never end, you have already proven yourself over and over, America's greatest suspense writer, and in France you'd be a legend.

Suspense

The book was very interesting. I took two psychology classes years back, one while in the Air Force and a second while enrolled at a junior college. The information in the book tracks with what I knew to be correct.

Read it!!

As usual, this is just another terrific book from Peter Abrahams. I have read a lot of his books and intend to read all the ones I haven't yet read.

Stick with it. It's worth the wait.

This one starts slow but I've read many Peter Abrahams books and I know I like his writing so I stuck with it and it was worth it. By the end I was gasping out loud. Maybe not his absolute best but definitely worth reading :)

Abrahams is well-acquainted with the complexities and unpredictability of human nature and emotions

Those of us who love genre fiction, particularly suspense and thriller titles, come to a novel with a certain set of expectations. Some of these are carried unconsciously, like the house keys we place in our pockets or purses as we multitask through a few other necessary chores.