“The Perfect Son” By Leslie North. Berkley paperback, August 2019. 368 pages, $16.British author Lauren North’s debut novel, a thriller titled “The Perfect Son,” is 368 pages of nervous anxiety packed between two covers. Right off the bat a young mother, Tess, wakes up in a hospital bed, greeted by searing pain. Despite the heavy duty painkillers, she knows that the reason for her pain is a knife wound to the abdomen. But the greatest cause of discomfort [...]
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