Irish psychological suspense master Julie Parsons has written another winner with "Eager to Please," her third novel. This title is sure to gain as much critical acclaim as earlier efforts "Mary, Mary" and "The Courtship Gift". "Eager to Please," just like Parsons' earlier efforts, holds the reader in its grip from the beginning.
Rachel Beckett tentatively returns to the strangeness, the joys and the loneliness of freedom after twelve years in prison. Living as an outcast, but constantly watched by her parole officer, Rachel begins to slowly pick herself up. Although her seventeen-year-old daughter Amy, just like the long-ago jury, is convinced that Rachel was indeed her father's murderer.
But Rachel has had more than a decade to plan revenge. And she's learned from the best. In prison, from the outcasts and hoodlums she did time with, she's learned tricks and techniques, plotting a fantastic revenge on the real killer.
Throughout the early parts of the book, we're inside Rachel's head as she returns to life on the outside. The inner psychological drama, while deftly handled, wasn't as appealing as the fast-paced, cat-and-mouse suspense of the latter half. As the real killer and the one who went to prison for a crime she didn't commit match wits, the pages turn and the heart thumps.
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