The Lover - Paperback

by Helene Flood (Author)

Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with?

When her upstairs neighbor J rgen is found murdered, she's questioned alongside her husband. How can she admit that she and J rgen were having an affair? Or explain to the police the complexity of her feelings? The hint of relief that he's dead. And what would they say if they knew she used a spare key to enter his apartment the morning after he was killed?

Rikke knows she can't hide the evidence of the affair from the police. And if she's caught in her lie, suspicion will turn to her.

With her perfect family life threatening to unravel, Rikke realizes that finding the killer is the only way to put herself in the clear. So long as the killer doesn't get to her first.

Author Biography

Helene Flood is a psychologist who obtained her doctoral degree on violence, revictimization and trauma-related shame and guilt in 2016. She now works as a psychologist and researcher at the National Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress. She lives in Oslo with her husband and two children. The Therapist is her first adult novel; it has now been bought for film by Anonymous Content, and rights have been sold to 28 countries.