The Doubt by English author S. K. Tremayne was published last March by Pocket editions. Nice Premium invites you to discover this chilling thriller!
A year after the accidental death of Lydia, one of their twin daughters, Sarah and Angus Moorcroft decide to leave London to forget the tragedy and move on. They settle on a small, windswept island inherited from Angus’s grandmother, off the coast of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. But things do not go as well as hoped. Kirstie, their surviving daughter, is unable to cope with her sister’s death and begins to claim that she is actually Lydia…
As the bad season sets in the region, Sarah, plagued by a terrible doubt, will do everything to uncover the truth.
The Doubt instills from the first pages an oppressive and heavy atmosphere…
– Mom? Why do you always call me Kirstie?
I do not answer. The silence suddenly seems deafening.
– I, uh… Sorry sweetie, what were you saying?
– Why do you always call me Kirstie, mom? Kirstie is dead. It’s Kirstie who is dead. I am Lydia.
We discover Sarah, a mother who has lost her child but who tries as best she can to save the rest of her family and her marriage. Told – mostly – by Sarah, the story allows readers to directly and intensely feel the emotions of this mother. But more than that, this narrative choice plunges the reader into the heart of Sarah’s doubts and anxiety. Could she have made a mistake on the day of the accident by identifying Lydia as the deceased and Kirstie as the survivor? Is she truly incapable of differentiating between her twin daughters? Questions that will lead Sarah to investigate.
On this isolated island where the Moorcroft family lives in a dilapidated cottage and struggles to overcome their grief, the atmosphere becomes heavier with each page. S. K. Tremayne offers us a gripping psychological thriller that will delight fans of the genre.
The troubling narrative on twinship, along with the unfolding intrigues, each family member offering their version of the tragedy, and also the setting, Eilean Torran, the island of thunder, conducive to terrors and storms, create a true sense of unease.
Perfectly mastered, this story with relentless suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end.
