Luca Veste is a UK author who has published a dozen crime fiction novels in as many years. Seven of them combine a police procedural with elements of psychological thrillers and the others are stand-alone thrillers. The paperback edition of Trust in Me, a psychological thriller, is being released by Black Spring Crime in early April 2026.
Sara grew up in a small town in southwestern England and ended up married to a U.S. citizen, living in suburban Connecticut. She’s developed a successful career as a trauma counselor and she’s immersed in her role as a mother to her two children Olivia and JJ. Her husband Jack is deeply engrossed in his investments job, to the extent that he routinely misses family events and meals.
A new client arrives at Sara’s office one day and under the seal of patient confidentiality tells Sara she killed someone. Dumbfounded, Sara listens to the circumstances of the murder which are eerily similar to a situation that occurred to Sara some 20 years earlier in England, where her then-boyfriend got into a drunken fight with another young man, who died as a result of the brawl. Only according to the new client, she was responsible for the death, not her boyfriend.
Sara was staggered that someone else should have had a similar experience. The situation was never reported and as far as Sara knew, only she and her then-boyfriend knew about it. In the following days she became convinced that the new client in fact was talking about her and the long-past incident and was trying to make her admit to it. A car with a couple of strangers follows her, she receives random threatening telephone calls, and other eerie episodes make her increasingly frightened and unnerved, resulting in erratic behavior on her part. What follows is an adrenalin-fueled nightmare that twists and spins in unpredictable ways to a stunning conclusion.
Veste creates tension-filled scenes, credible characters, and a surprise conclusion that in retrospect I realized had been hinted at all along. Fans of domestic thrillers and psychological suspense will want to add this title to their reading lists.
• Publisher: Black Spring Press
• Publication date: April 7, 2026
• Language: English
• Print length: 362 pages
• ISBN-10: 1917788029
• ISBN-13: 978-1917788021
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/4uq0SQO
Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2026
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
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