The book immediately places you at the heart of the story, with a disappearance that shocks. The author builds intense suspense and makes you doubt everything. It is a psychological game that keeps you on edge until the last page.
Are you ready to confront yourself? Without witnesses… Twelve-year-old Jozi suffers from an unexplained illness. During a visit to her doctor, she disappears from the office without a trace. She will never be found.
Four years later, her father and psychiatrist Victor Larenz has withdrawn, devastated, to an isolated island in the North Sea, trying to cope with the incomprehensible loss of his daughter… Without a body…
Victor receives an unexpected visit on the island from a beautiful stranger. She is a writer, Anna Spiegel, who suffers from a rare form of schizophrenia. All the characters she creates in her books take on – according to her – flesh and blood, and she begins to communicate with them. In her last story, she wrote about a young girl who suffers from an unknown illness and disappeared without leaving a trace.
Where is his daughter? Is it possible that clues about Jozi's last days are hidden within Anna's delusions? Victor is persuaded to take on her treatment in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth behind his daughter's disappearance.
However, the sessions will soon take a dramatic turn, as the past comes to light, with terrifying consequences. Could the answer lie in the unimaginable? The treatment has begun…
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"WHEN HALF an hour had passed, he knew that he would never see his daughter again. She had opened the door by herself, turned to give him one last look, and then entered the office of the elderly man. But Josephine, his twelve-year-old daughter, would never come out again. He was sure. She would never look at him again, smiling and beaming all over when he took her to her bed. She would never again turn off her colorful lamp as she fell asleep. And she would never again wake up from her terrifying screams in the night.
This certainty hit him with the sudden force of a violent collision. When he stood up, his body wanted to remain seated in the rickety plastic chair. He wouldn't have been surprised at all if his legs didn't hold him. If he fell down and lay on the worn parquet floor of the waiting room. Right between the burly woman with psoriasis and the table with the old magazines. He wasn't lucky enough to faint, though. He continued to remain conscious.
The examination of patients is not done according to the order of priority, but according to the urgency of their condition. The sign on the white leather door leading to the allergist's office blurred before his eyes. Doctor Grolke was a family friend and doctor number twenty-two. Victor Larentz had made an entire list. The previous twenty-one doctors had failed to find anything. Absolutely nothing."
About the Author
Sebastian Fitzek, born in 1971, is the most successful author of psychological thrillers in Germany. His first novel, The Therapy, immediately became a bestseller in 2006. His books have been translated into 37 countries and have sold over 19 million copies worldwide, while many have been adapted for cinema and television. In 2017, he was honored with the European Crime Fiction Award. He lives with his family in Berlin. Many of his works are published by Dioptra, such as "The Package," which won the Audience Award at the Public Awards 2019.
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- Author
- Sebastian Fitzek
- Publisher
- Dioptra
- Original Title
- Die Therapie
- Publishers
- Dioptra
- Type
- Crime
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 344
- Release Date
- 11/2018
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789606054471
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