A fabulously disturbing psychological thriller awaits you in Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James.
After a horrific tragedy tears her family apart, Katherine Patterson decides to start her life over by moving to a new city. There, she makes a friend who is all the things she is not--popular, beautiful, outgoing, and uninhibited. Alice doesn't tie herself down worrying about what people think or how her behavior might impact others. One moment needy, but then quickly cruel, Alice is not a person Katherine or their friends can figure out.
No one can possibly know the dark secrets that Alice hides; secrets that pull Katherine into a sinister plot and force her to realize she can never escape her past.
What a stellar debut novel from Rebecca James. Chilling and engaging, Beautiful Malice captures you from the very first page and doesn't release you even after you've read the last word. Disturbing, yet, totally captivating, this story dives deep into the psychology of tragedy and loss, and the impact of those left behind to pick up the pieces.
James did an excellent job in creating characters you sympathized with in many instances, even when you didn't like them. As the story moves along, you find yourself trying to figure Alice out--what makes her tick, why does she act the way she does, is she a good friend to Katherine or her worst nightmare?
The story floats in between the past and the present, which I don't always care for, but in this instance James made it work well.
If you enjoy novels that captivate you fully, ones that you simply can't put down, then pick up a copy of Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James.
Title: Beautiful Malice
Author: Rebecca James
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN-10: 0553808052
ISBN-13: 978-0553808056
SRP: $25.00
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