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Under Your Skin (2013)

por Sabine Durrant

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Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body near her home. She's shaken and haunted by the image of the lifeless young woman, and frightened that the killer, still at large, could strike again. Before long, the police have a lead. The evidence points to a very clear suspect, one Gaby never saw coming. Full of brilliant twists and turns, Under Your Skin is a dark and suspenseful psychological thriller that will make you second guess everything. Because you can never be too sure about anything, especially when it comes to murder.… (más)
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This is an absorbing book that keeps you guessing right to the end, with twists galore that throw you off the scent of the trail to catch the murderer of Ania Dudek. Her body has been found in a local park by Gaby Mortimer, a television morning show presenter, who soon becomes the police’s chief suspect. With Gaby protesting her innocence, she enlists the aid of Jack Hayward, a freelance newspaper reporter to help clear her name. As his investigation progresses, doubts are raised about Gaby’s involvement in Ania’s death. Suspicions are raised about the true killer, leading to a surprise revelation and a shocking ending to an enthralling story.
  camharlow2 | Nov 4, 2022 |
This book begins well, slides down a slippery slide into a murky swamp. Trying to climb again towards the end, but its power was already over and ended only the despair of the reader.


Gabi Mortimer is a morning show host on British television. She is not a BBC political reporter. Mortimer has everything, according to the back cover, and if everything is a barbie doll career with a beautiful smile and housewife's insights, then she has everything.
She has a hostile partner for submitting the program. She also has a competitor - another candidate for the job, who blows on the back of her neck with a younger smile. She also has a beautiful huge house, populated by three people and a husband who is invested in money and pays no attention to her.

One morning, during a run in the park near her home, Gabi discovers the body of a dead woman. And all traces, unfortunately, lead to her. So far the story stretches, well written, poetic descriptions, and it certainly takes off as a thriller and as a novel. The left triangle of the cover classified it as prose. Then, the story begins to paddle. Polish migrant workers mingle with an attractive journalist who tries to help our defeated heroine investigate the murder and remove the police off her back. All the while her husband was indifferent in Japan, in some financial advice across continents.

Finally, comes the discovery of truth. Surprising? Oh well, let's say. Extraordinary? No. ( )
  JantTommason | Jan 7, 2019 |
Gaby discovers the body of a young woman in the park while out on an early morning run. She is outraged and mystified when the police question and eventually arrest her for the girl's murder - Gaby had never met her before.

Originally this book intrigued me, but before long the use of the first person present tense began to grate, as did Gaby's personality. She was self-pitying, passive, overly concerned about her job as a daytime TV host, a job she seemed not even to respect. Then eventually the twists began and the "reveals' came pretty much out of nowhere. The final reveal was dishonest to the reader. ( )
  pgchuis | Dec 17, 2016 |
Endings can be incredibly powerful.

An unexpected ending can completely change our perspective on what has gone before, and I have persevered with several very dull or irritating books in the hope that their endings would somehow redeem their middles. (This is doubtless because I remember finding Louis de Bernieres' 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' a real drag at A level, until I reached the ending and decided that it had made all the preceding bumpf worth reading...sadly, no ending since then has ever been so successful in reclassifying boredom as patience.)

The conclusion of Sabine Durrant's psychological thriller 'under your skin' did change my perspective, but, sadly, not in a way I liked.

== What's it about? ==

Daytime TV personality Gaby Mortimer discovers a woman's body while running on the common near her home. She immediately reports it to the police...who quickly target her as their only suspect. Appalled and horrified by her arrest and overnight incarceration, Gaby descends into a world of paranoia and tension as she tries to persuade DI Perivale to look elsewhere for suspects. The victim is a Polish nanny; could Gaby's new Polish nanny be involved somehow? Circumstantial evidence appears to be link Gaby to the crime, but it could equally well apply to her increasingly distant husband, Philip. And then there's Gaby's stalker...

That's the plot, but really this novel is about a life teetering on the brink: outwardly sucessful, respected and someone who 'has it all', it quickly becomes clear that, actually, Gaby has startlingly little of value: few close friends, a dwindling career (how dare a nearly 40 year old show her face on daytime TV? Better replace her with a younger model, sharpish,) and a disintegrating marriage. Really, this novel examines the fears simmering underneath middle-class suburban life and how they can affect women. (Hint: badly.)

== What's it like? ==

Instantly intriguing. Gaby is anxious from page 1 as she notes that:

'You are never alone in London, even in the dead of night, even in the bone-cold chill of a pre-dawn March morning. There is always the possibility of someone watching, following, seeing what you're up to. I'm not sure I like it.'

Being a first person narrator allows Gaby to draw us in; it's impossible not to cringe with her when she gets 'social stuff' wrong - expecting someone to smile when they don't, flirting slightly when it's hideously inappropriate. It appears that the tensions in her life are causing her to unravel (since surely she didn't become a TV personality without previously possessing better interpersonal skills?) She is so aware of her flaws that we want her to forgive herself:

'My breath is ragged. I can feel it, hot, in my chest. It's all wrong; I'm not doing it right. I'm hopeless; I'm a person who can't even run properly'.

And yet, it would be so easy not to like her. She's privileged, employs a nanny and a cleaner (and has no idea where the latter lives), and is ferried to and from her rather vacuous work each morning. Durrant's skills lie in manipulating our response: she's a bit arrogant, perhaps, but also obviously vulnerable and being set up for murder by someone. Perhaps the most chilling moment in the whole book is when DI Perivale coolly informs her that as long as there's opportunity and evidence, no one gives a damn about motive. Look how easy it would be to have your entire, comfortable middle class existence destroyed, Durrant whispers to us.

== What's not to like? ==

And then...and then there's the ending. Obviously, there needs to be a big reveal; it's a crime thriller. And in retrospect, if you flick back through the previous pages, (which I did, muttering "what? WHAT?") the supporting evidence for the denouement exists, but there's no getting away from my ultimate dissatisfaction with the ending. To explain why would be to reveal too much, but I have a genuine complaint, I assure you!

Oh and if I was being picky, I would mention how strange it seems that the police never show any interest in any other suspects. Ever.

== Final thoughts ==

I'm loathe to write this off before I really enjoyed reading it. Durrant writes well, incorporating some lovely turns of phrase. She creates tension effectively and made me really care about the characters, but, oh, that ending...

It's a very good psychological thriller, and very cleverly done, but be prepared to want to tear out the last 10 pages. Seriously. ( )
  brokenangelkisses | Sep 27, 2015 |
This book has been compared to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, both of which I really enjoyed. But I am sorry to say Under your Skin isn't in the same league. Yes, there are the obvious contextual similarities of the unreliable protagonist, who is not very likeable, and the failing marriage. The writing itself, however, is nowhere near as engrossing. I found it to be choppy and there was a lot of irrelevant content that added nothing to the plot. I listened to the audiobook version and was thankful for the option to listen at double speed to get through those passages because otherwise I may have given up. Saying that, it wasn't all bad though. While the beginning was certainly slow, the story became increasingly absorbing, there were some nice twists and I did love the ending (I may be in the minority), though I admit, the end might leave you feeling a bit cheated. ( )
  Pet12 | Aug 4, 2015 |
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Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body near her home. She's shaken and haunted by the image of the lifeless young woman, and frightened that the killer, still at large, could strike again. Before long, the police have a lead. The evidence points to a very clear suspect, one Gaby never saw coming. Full of brilliant twists and turns, Under Your Skin is a dark and suspenseful psychological thriller that will make you second guess everything. Because you can never be too sure about anything, especially when it comes to murder.

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