No Good Deed: A Psychological Thriller
by Britney King
From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception.
They say love is blind. But what happens when seeing the truth could cost you everything?
Everyone in Cedar Hill thinks they know us—Trent and me. I’m the friendly face at every community event, always there to lend a hand. Trent is the charming, successful salesman admired by all. But they have no idea what really goes on behind closed doors.
It starts with an old milk carton. A missing girl’s face stares back at me—eerily familiar, like the woman in a photograph I wasn’t supposed to find in Trent’s workshop. That image shatters everything I thought I knew about my husband.
Most would dismiss a forgotten photograph as meaningless. But for me, it’s a key to a past I never imagined—and a present that’s more dangerous than I ever realized.
Now, the young woman we recently hired has become Trent’s newest obsession. I know I should protect her, but I’m up against a man who knows my every move. Time is running out, and I have to make a choice: keep my children safe or stop the monster living under our roof.
They say a wife knows her husband. But what if that’s the cruelest lie of all?
Set in the deceptively tranquil suburbs of 1980s America, No Good Deed is a dark psychological thriller about betrayal, survival, and confronting unimaginable truths.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
It’s almost poetic— while he sleeps, he finds peace, a respite from the turmoil that consumes him when he’s awake. Not that most people see it. He’s too careful, too calculated, a sociopath with a day planner.
She probably organizes her spices alphabetically and considers skipping church on Wednesday night an act of rebellion.
Edith’s house is old and suffocating, and it smells of mothballs and something else, something stale, like disappointment.
Edith’s shadow looms large in this house, her presence like a bitter aftertaste.
My Review:
My shoulders were in my ears while I perused this consuming, gripping, evocative, and tautly written tale. Each page had my beloved Kindle thrumming with tension. I cringed, flinched, and grimaced at the realistic recounting of various forms of abuse, yet I couldn’t put this monstrous story down. I don’t read horror stories yet Britney King always manages to turn me inside out and upside down, and I keep coming back for more from this crafty wordsmith. A phenomenon that continues to leave me more than a bit perplexed and pondering… what does that say about me?!?
About the Author
Britney King lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, children, two dogs, one ridiculous cat, and a partridge in a pear tree.
