The Hand That Feeds You by A. J. Rich
Morgan Prager is
happy. She’s engaged to a great guy and
working on finishing her graduate degree in victim psychology at John Jay
College. When she comes home from class
one day she finds her fiancé mauled to death by her beloved dogs. She doesn’t want to believe her eyes, but the
evidence is irrefutable. Morgan feels
strange about it, but she hires a lawyer to help her beloved pets which are all
awaiting trial and probable execution.
While worrying about her dogs she is also trying to track down her
fiancé’s family to let them know the horrible news. No relative is turning up in Canada where he
claimed he was from. Actually, no person
with his name is to be found anywhere either.
That is when Morgan hears from another woman engaged to her fiancé. As she breaks into his email account she
finds out more and more about the man she was to marry and the other women he
was engaged to: other women who are turning up dead.
Morgan finds herself a
victim, the very person she is studying, and a persona she thought she
successfully left in her past. As she
puzzles out whom this man was the reader is also trying to puzzle out how he
could have duped her so thoroughly.
Turns out he mostly likely could have duped anyone. The character is based on a man the
co-authors knew who was engaged to one of their dear friends.
This was a page turner
that kept me guessing. There were some
references to a literary classic (can’t tell you which, it’ll give something
big away!) that allowed me to guess where things were headed. A great, truly creepy, retelling of an old
story.
