Suffer Little Children
A 65,000-word Psychological Thriller
By Freda Hansburg
Robin Perry’s life is finally on track with her dream job and a promising relationship with Ben Martin, even if his two spoiled children, Amber and Jaden, hate her. But things take adownhill turn when Ben’s acquaintance, Gloria Reyes, asks Robin to admit her young son to a cancer study meant for adults. Robin, heartbroken, must turn her down. But Gloria won’t take no for an answer and begins an insidious crusade to force the issue.
Amber Martin hates living with her crazy mother since her parents’ divorce, but she can hardly live with her dad, who’s too busy with “Miss Perfect” these days. When Amber runs into her mother’s friend Gloria, she’s glad to finally meet an adult who seems to be on her side. But as Amber becomes friends with Gloria’s sickly son, Alex, she begins to think Gloria is not as nice as she first thought, and Alex may be in trouble.
As Gloria’s threatening behavior escalates, Robin must protect the children while findinga way to save her career and her relationship with Ben. But Gloria always manages to stay onestep ahead. When a secret comes to light, Robin discovers the stakes are even higher than she imagined.
Based on a real-life cancer study, Suffer Little Children is a dark, fast-paced psychological thriller with compelling characters and twists that will enthrall fans of domestic noir authors like Gillian Flynn, Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, Tanen Jones and Nicci French.
Freda Hansburg is a psychologist and psychological thriller author. Her suspense novel, Tell on You, won the 2020 Independent Press Award for Psychological Thriller, the 2019 NYC Big Book Award for Suspense and was a Thriller Finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She also authored the psychological suspense novel, Shrink Rapt and, with Mel Silberman, several self-help books, including the bestseller PeopleSmart: Developing Your Interpersonal Intelligence – translated into a dozen languages. Freda lives on Hilton Head Island, where she is working on her fourth suspense novel, Trick or Treat, and her Pickleball game.
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First, I want to thank Freda Hansburg and Red Adept Publishing for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Freda Hansburg truly knows how to pull on my heartstrings in her latest novel Suffer Little Children. This book is heartbreaking, intense, and a strong climatic finish!
Whomever created the graphic design for the cover of this book should be commended. The colors that they used along with the picture definitely grabbed my attention.
Freda writes about two important medical issues to bring awareness in her storylines
She brings awareness and does her research on Munchausen Syndrome, Medulloblastoma and DNA testing.
I couldn’t help but crack up laughing when the kids put the lipstick on the dog! I would have loved to see that picture!
My heart ached for Alex and all that he was going through. No little boy should be put through any of that!
I was blown away and never saw that ending coming at all! It was wild, intense and action filled.
1 comments:
I agree with Heidi about the quality of this book, but I would add that this really is a thriller. I loved that narrative drives forward with propulsive energy, pulling the reader into the the individual dramas faced by each character and the mystery of Alex’s disease. Hansborough is a master psychologist — which I would have expected from her resume. So each short chapter, consisting mostly of dialogue, brings one or more characters under the spotlight, but everything is under the author’s control. These are real people caught in a web of lies — even the “villain” is caught in this web. Highly recommended.
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