The Binding Room: from the best-selling author of The Jigsaw Man comes a brand new gripping and heart pounding crime thriller in the DI Anjelica Henley series! (An Inspector Henley Thriller, Book 2)

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This is a mysterious story, one that brings together love in the case of Emmett and Lucien. It is a story of family, of mystery, and of how our memories erased can change exactly who we are and how we face the future unknowing of the dangers that have been erased. The living room is double-sized and extends vertically downwards from the entrances at either side. It contains a large turned-off TV, placed against its northern wall, and a couch further south, as well as a red carpet located between them with a massive picture of a cross with wings. A door in the upper left side leads to another narrow corridor, which Isaac can walk north to reach Mom's room.

The Binding Room (An Inspector Henley Thriller, Book 2)

After reading The Jigsaw Man I was looking forward to reading more about these characters. In The Binding Room, we learn a lot more about them, their struggles and their pasts. It is another dark and gruesome police procedural, from Nadine Matheson and certainly kept me intrigued. And then there were the characters. The characters in this book were so beautifully described, and though I may have found Emmett annoying at times, what character isn't? Lucias added a whole new part to this book, and the romance? Well damn, I was about half-way through the book and then suddenly my gaydar was tingling and I was like 'am I sensing something here?'. And damn, what a thing that was. I rarely read such beautiful romantic build-ups, and believe me, I read a lot of books.

Summary

I’ve always loved reading, however for a long time I was unable to work out how to make reading work for me anymore. This was due to my Keratoconus, probably clashing with my dyslexia, and meaning I just couldn’t read quite like I used to. The move from books to audiobooks was hard, however, just over a year ago I learnt that as long as I sped up audiobooks I was able to enjoy them once again. Now I have a huge wishlist on Audible and earlier this year I added to it The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson. Which was worse? To feel nothing, or to grieve for something you no longer remembered? Surely when you forgot, you’d forget to be sad, or what was the point? And yet that numbness would take part of your self away..." I am happy to announce there was no sophomore slump with this addition to the series. Henley is still having problems emotionally from their last case and the loss of her mother. Her marriage is still in flux, and I still do not know how that will turn out in future books. Her entire team has become more fully fleshed and I care for them all with all their quirks and differences. This book does have several very dark and graphically disturbing scenes, but it is about sadistic torture murders and Ms. Matheson’s first book was the same, so I was expecting it. The investigative plot was well paced with several twists throughout that keeps you reading with a major twist right before the end.

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The 1-pip room may reroll your active item into a "passive" item. The 1-pip room always empties your active item slot. However 1-pip room may fail to find a replacement item which results in Isaac still having the collectible. This is because the D4 will try 3 times to get a non-active item from the item pool before giving up replacing the item.Everything about the setting is the same as Victorian England, except for the subject of books. Books are taboo in this culture, because of the process called binding, in which a person can divest themselves of a horrific memory by placing it in the mind of a binder who writes it into your book. Your book becomes the sacrosanct property of the binder, never to be divulged, or that is what is supposed to happen. Unfortunately, this is not always the case and unscrupulous binders sell people's books or let criminals repeat their crimes, by erasing the memories of the victim. So this book has many good things to recommend it—a fascinating premise, sympathetic main characters, plus one very good supporting character, many instances of beautiful and atmospheric writing, a gothic style setting, and plenty of mystery. But the relationship between the two main characters took center stage after part one, which I feel took something away from the general story and left no room for the author to explore the act of binding or its effect on that society, especially with a change in viewpoint. The ending was also a bit too tidy for me and didn’t answer some lingering questions. While this can be read as a standalone, I think it was more meaningful knowing the characters ahead of time to feel connected to their personal life plot threads. I'm still thinking about this book days after finishing and know it will be in my top ten reads for 2022! THE JIGSAW MAN, the opening installment in Nadine Matheson’s Inspector Anjelica Henley series, was a superior thriller and a serial killer novel that would make readers of Thomas Harris shiver. Her follow-up, THE BINDING ROOM, is an even more complex story in which two distinct and different themes are running through a mystery that turns into a potential serial murder investigation. I love a good cat and mouse between a detective and a killer, and Nadine Matheson’s thriller fits the bill. The chilling storyline, intense characters, vivid prose, and unflinching crime scenes make Matheson the heir apparent to Mo Hayder and Thomas Harris. Smashing!” - J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author

The Binding Room: (An Inspector Henley Thriller - WHSmith

We’ve been called witches since the beginning of time. Word-cunning, they used to call it—of a piece with invoking demons…We were burned for it too. The Crusade wasn’t new, we’ve always been scapegoats. Well, knowledge is always a kind of magic, I suppose. Emmett Farmer is a young man with issues. He used to think that he would inherit his family’s farm. It was the life he was used to and the road he expected to follow to, and beyond, the horizon. But he has not been himself lately. His abilities have deteriorated. He loses himself, in time, suffering dizziness, nausea, and weakness. Some say he was cursed by a witch. When he is offered an apprenticeship with a bookbinder, it offers a way out, however frightening the career and his mentor might be. With a wit that complements her dark subject matter, Matheson writes superbly . . . A book to make you think, feel - and jump out of your chair' Daily Mirror Due to how Dice Room generation works, a floor cannot have both a Dice Room and Sacrifice Room; they are mutually exclusive.

And what do these two fine male specimens do in this slightly dystopian, and unjust world? Do they fix or break the system? Do they try to alter the processes? Perhaps they attempt to straight some individual wrongs? The correct answer is: Nothing. They do nothing that transcends their personal entanglement. They can prevent a murder but they don’t bother in the end. They also terrorise an innocent maid threatening her with an abuse of the binding powers, but all for a good cause so don’t pay heed. This good cause is their own happiness which started with cheating on the sister and this is all the Binding is about. It was hard for me to connect with this story in the beginning. The intricate descriptions and vague plot set-up had my attention dwindling. I actually considering putting The Binding down, but thankfully I pushed through, and by part two I was hooked!