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Staff Pick of the Week: The Hand That Feeds You

 

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This week’s staff pick is the unnerving, psychological thriller The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich. Morgan Prager’s life was running smoothly, happily engaged and finishing her thesis on victim psychology,  when one day she returns home to find her finance mauled to death and her three dogs seemingly to blame.  As she begins to unravel the mystery of what really happened and the true identity of her fiance, Morgan wonders if she is the very thing she’s been studying, a victim. Our staffer described the book as a disturbing, psychological page-turner.

“Morgan Prager, at age thirty, is completing her thesis on victim psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. She is newly engaged to Bennett, a seductive but possessive and secretive man. She returns from class one day to find Bennett mauled to death, and her dogs—a Great Pyrenees and two pit bulls she has rescued—covered in blood. Bewildered and devastated that her dogs could have committed such violence, she worries that she might suffer from one of the syndromes she studies: pathological altruism, when selfless acts do more damage than good.

When Morgan tries to locate Bennett’s parents to tell them about their son’s hideous death, she discovers he was not the man he said he was. Everything he has told her—where he was born, where he lives and works—was a lie. In fact, he has several fiancées, and fits the clinical definition of a sociopath. And then, one by one, these other women are murdered. Suddenly Morgan’s research into Bennett takes on the urgency of survival: to stay alive, she must find out who is killing the women Bennett was closest to.” —Amazon

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