by Sebastian Fitzek (t. Jamie Bulloch)
SYNOPSIS
A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret.
Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the kidnapper and murderer of six-year-old Max, who disappeared without trace a year ago.
But now the killer is staying silent. The investigators have no reliable evidence, so Max's parents have no certainty and are unable to say goodbye to their son.
Everything changes when one investigator makes an unbelievable offer: he can have Max's father placed in the psychiatric prison hospital where Guido T is imprisoned - as a fake patient.
Max's father agrees. He plans to force the child killer into a confession. Because nothing is worse than uncertainty.
Or so he thinks. Until he, as an inmate, learns the gruesome truth...
REVIEW
Till is facing every parent's worst nightmare. A split second decision results in his son Max going missing, believed to have been abducted by the notorious child killer Guido T. However, the most excruciating part for Till is the not knowing. Because Guido T likes to play games, and despite confessing to other murders, he won't say what happened to Max or let them know where his body is.
Delirious with grief, Till makes the completely irrational decision to take over another person's identity in order to be placed in the same psychiatric prison hospital where Guido T is being held. He wants answers and will do anything to get them, but what he hadn't bargained on was who he would need to pretend to be, and Patrick Winter has his own dark story to tell which doesn't go down well with the other inmates. As things go from bad to worse, it's a race against time for Till to push for the answers he desperately needs about Max before his own life is also put at risk.
The Inmate is one of those books that messes with your mind. There are so many elements to piece together but every time you think you know what is happening there is another level of mystery added to the story. It's basically the definition of a psychological thriller and if you are put off at all by the premise being slightly far-fetched, I would urge you to reserve judgement until later in the story. It is important to continue with Till's mission to get the full chilling effect.
Behind what is quite a complex story is a very dark case of child abduction which you think is the worst level that the story will reach, but this book will continue to surprise you with more and more devastating revelations. The Inmate is certainly not a light 'beach read', it is gruesome, raw and pretty shocking but fellow thriller fans will love this dark exploration of a killers mind.
Thanks to Head of Zeus - @AriesFiction and Sebastian Fitzek - @SebastianFitzek for the opportunity to read and review.
Genre: Thriller / Psychological Thriller
Publisher: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 978-1804542323
Pages: 384pp
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