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The Suicide Gene
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
She thought they were her siblings. By the time she realized they weren’t, one of them was dead.
Doctor Emma Kerr had no right counseling them. Adopted and her birth records lost, she believed she was born a McKinney. Her face, intelligence, and depression resembled theirs. For years people mistook her for their sister. So she devised a plan. What begins as a scheme to counsel the McKinney family and determine if they are blood relatives quickly causes Emma to wonder if she had truly done the manipulating. Is someone following her?
Now Emma clamors to escape the McKinney world of domination and deception. Is she Mathew McKinney’s sister? She can’t be. Is he in love with her? He can’t be. Then how do he and his sisters know more about her than she knows herself? This is a game to them. Is the game suicide? Or murder?
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- Norma Miles
- 04-04-19
Shuffle, cut, burn.
"Shuffle, cut, burn."
It begins with a funeral, then jumps back to six months before the death, working forward week by week until that start point in time is reached again, and the story continues.
The four adult McKinney siblings, Matthew, Melanie, and twins Mary and Minnie, seem never to have recovered from their mother's suicide some years before. Dr.Emma Kerr is persuaded to take on the whole family as clients, despite her vague feeling that she could in some way be related to them, given that she'd looked a bit like them when at school. Not any more, though, and it seemed very unlikely: she had been an adopted baby with no records prior to the adoption and no real reasons to justify her suspicions.
The McKinneys are strange, slightly reticent individuals, all refusing medication. The Suicide Gene tells of the difficulties occurring in Emma's life - a pending divorce, a stalker, a growing romance, replacing a colleague in her small firm, and, later, litigation - at the same time as she reviews her sessions with the four adults she believes to be suffering from a form of post traumatic stress. but as she does this, another, new sinister mystery emerges from their background.
All of which sounds rather bland but is, in fact, quite riveting reading.
The tensions which build in this psychological mystery are further enhanced by the gently melodic narration by Bob Johnson, whose timing is text perfect, well articulated and entoned, and individual characters each have their own voices. The characterisation by author, C.J.Zahner, is good, building slowly as the reader gets to know the characters, and author and narrator together create a complete picture.
My thanks to the rights holder of The Suicide Gene, who, at my request, freely gifted me a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. I very much enjoyed this book with its contrasting characters and the slowly evolving mystery and conclusion. Plus it raises some interesting ideas. Recommended.
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- Helen
- 25-04-20
Great book
I Enjoyed this audio book very much from start to finish great story line too
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