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Hurting Distance
Sophie Hannah · 2007 · 409 pages
Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody.
Now Naomi has another secret - the man she has fallen passionately in love with, unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without trace, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not missing.
In desperation, Naomi has a crazy idea. If she can't persuade the police that Robert is in danger, perhaps she can convince them that he is a danger to others. Then they will have to look for him - urgently. Naomi knows how describe in detail the actions of a psychopath. All she needs to do is dig up her own troubled past...
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Tana French
“Naomi is rebuilding her life after a terrible rape – right up until her lover goes missing. When the police don’t believe her, she decides that the only way to get them to pay attention is to accuse him of the rape. This one breaks the rules because it isn’t about murder. It’s one of the few mysteries to deal, unflinchingly and in depth, with rape – not just as a tagged-on accessory to the ‘real’ crime of murder, but as a real, horrific and life-shattering crime in itself.”↗