NOW YOU SEE HER BY JAMES PATTERSON
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED BY ARROW BOOKS
To save her own life, Nina Bloom vanished. Now, to rescue an innocent man, she confronts the killer she thought she had escaped forever.
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she built in New York including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past.
Nina’s secret began eighteen years ago. She has a carefree existence in Key West, a handsome police officer husband, and a baby on the way. But Nina’s world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.
Now, years later, when an innocent man is framed for murder, Nina knows she must return to Florida and confront the evil she fled.
MY REVIEW
I read this book a long time ago and it’s been sitting in my book case for years. For me personally this is my favourite James Patterson book. At the time of reading this thriller it was the The Sunday Times number one bestseller. For anyone who likes really short chapters, then this book you will suit you. To show you how short each chapter is I have done the whole of chapter 8.
CHAPTER 8
WHO DO YOU want me to talk to first? Your mom and dad? Officer Fournier said, making eye contact for the first time in the rearview.
He really was easy to look at. Not pretty and dark like Alex. His paler , more angular, badass white man sort of handsome. His eyes were strikingly light, almost silver blue.
They’re both dead, I said
Officer Fournier let out a sigh, You don’t want me to lie to me Jeanine, he said sternly. I think you understand your situation here. You really don’t want to make this worse for yourself.
It’s true I said, sounding calm and sober suddenly. My dad was a Maryland state trooper. He was killed in a line of duty roadblock car crash in 1982. I have his prayer card in my wallet. My mom died last year.
Officer Fournier went to my wallet. He turned all the way around a moment later, suddenly much less imposing, with my dad’s prayer card in his hand.
How’d your mom die? he said
She committed suicide. I said. I realized it was the first time I’d ever said it out loud.
Wow. That’s rough, Officer Fournier said, sounding almost sympathetic as he absorbed that. Any brothers or Sisters?
I shook my head.
Whose Cameron?
My boyfriend’s. He’s back at our hotel. I said.
I sat there for a second.
Having sex with my best friend. I added quietly.
Office Fournier shook his head as he looked back at the biker.
Wow, the blue eyed cop said. You all partying, and he cheats on you, so you took his car. I see.
The man had a dog. It ran out in front of the car, I said quietly. I was trying to swerve out of the way of the dog, and I went into a skid. I guess I was going to fast so I started to spin, and then the man was just there.
I lost it again. I folded like a lawn chair as I started crying.
After about a minute, I wiped my wet face on my thigh. When I sat up, Officer Fournier was staring at me in the rearview mirror with a look I couldn’t quite read in his pale eyes.
We held eye contact for a long, startling electric beat. I guess it was a strange time to feel attraction to someone, but there it was. I couldn’t look away. He cut away first, tapping my dad’s prayer card to his chin.
What if ? he said after a moment.
I had my own what ifs going through my head right at that moment. Like, what if I hadn’t had jell O shots for lunch ? What if I hadn’t taken Alex’s car ? What if I’d never been born ?
That’s when the Officer suddenly opened his door and got out. Then there was a snap and a click and the door beside me opened, too.
I’m making a judgment call here, he said as he undid my cuffs. Get back to your car and get out of here. Go back to school Jeanine. This never happened.
ABOUT AUTHOR JAMES PATTERSON
JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.
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