Estante de suspenses ( )

La personalidad del protagonista, Judd Stevens, psicoanalista, está particularmente bien tratada: un hombre solitario y compasivo que vive entre el recuerdo imperecedero de su joven esposa, muerta trágicamente, y los terrores que pueblan las mentes de sus pacientes. Llegan de pronto a él el crimen y las dudas de un detective que lo llevan a enfrentarse con el espectro de su propia posible paranoia.

“Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Naked Face

This book is a A slow simmer of intensity and madness.

This was Sidney Sheldon's first book and I somehow only got around to reading it after I had read most of his others. This was highly enjoyable.

So this is a story about a Psychologist who starts to believe one of his patients is trying to kill him. As time goes on though he wonders if he might be going mad. Is what's happening REALLY happening?

It is a riveting book and that does not surprise me because after all..it's Sheldon!

This is not my favorite by the author but it is a quick and fast paced FUN read. And anyone interested or in, the field of psychology who enjoys mysteries about psychologists would LOVE this. To me, I'd never have known this was his first novel.

So if you are a Sheldon fan do not miss this one. I do not know why it took me so long read it but I am glad I did. ( )

Loved it when I was 14. Recently reread, and liked it, but didn't love it. ( )

The Naked Face es la primera novela escrita por Sidney Sheldon. Fue nominado por Mystery Writers of America para el Premio Edgar Allan Poe a la Mejor Primera Novela de un autor estadounidense.