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288 pages, Hardcover
First published August 4, 2020
“I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ... You’ve just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true-crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page, his rage grows. Because Jim was – is – the Nothing Man.”Knowing who the Nothing Man is, is not a spoiler but rather gives us knowledge that Eve doesn’t have and creates a tense element of drama. The story is narrated from the perspectives of Eve and Jim Doyle. The clever structure of this novel adds unique perspectives which provide a book within a book to tell parts of the story and build The Nothing Man’s rage to finish the job.
“I imagined him feeling safe, maybe even smug, sure that since he had avoided detection all these years, no one was ever going to come for him now. But I was coming for him, with Ed by my side. It was only a matter of time.”The enthralling suspense that plays out is wonderfully maintained throughout the novel and leads to a cleverly crafted climax.