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    The Burning Air

    Written by Erin Kelly

    Narrated by Patricia Connolly, Robert Ian Mackenzie, Samuel Roukin and Saskia Maarleveld

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    A best-selling author who draws comparisons to the masterful Ruth Rendell, Erin Kelly crafts suspense novels that have raised the bar for thrillers everywhere. The Burning Air follows the affluent MacBrides, who look to family matriarch Lydia as the rock upon which they all depend. But when Lydia passes, Rowan and his three grown children gather at the family’s weekend home in the country. And there a stranger, convinced Lydia was a murderer, attempts to shatter the remaining family members’ lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781470335854
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    The Burning Air
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    Erin Kelly

    ERIN KELLY is the Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said, The Poison Tree and several other standalone psychological thrillers. She also wrote the novelization of the award-winning TV show Broadchurch. Her work has been critically acclaimed and translated into thirty one languages. Erin also works as a freelance journalist and creative writing tutor. She lives in London with her family.

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    • 5/5
      My rating: 5 of 5 starsThe Burning Air is a Viking Adult publication with a Feb. 2013 release date. Often I have found that novels promoted as psychological thrillers really don't fall into that genre. Many times they are just mysteries or thrillers with a darker edge to them, but in the case of The Burning Air by Erin Kelly, the description of psychological thriller is dead on. Rowan and Lydia have an idealic life. They have a good marriage, three healthy children, great careers, a nice house. But, when Rowan, a head master at a prestigious school is targeted by an obsessed mother and son over the rejection of a scholorship, the family finds their lives being scripted for them by a clever villian bent on revenge. Writing a review for this book is like walking through a land mine. I don't want to give away anything, so let's just say that this book has many twist and turns. Lydia is dying of cancer. We learn that she has kept journals for her entire married life and that mixed into the mundane everyday musings are some terribly dark secrets. When Lydia passes away, the family gathers for a traditional bonfire with their father. Over this weekend, the long buried secrets that tormented Lydia threaten to come to light. Circumstances will bring this family together and bond them forever as they face an enemy and deal with life and death situations they never saw coming.For me, psychological suspense by definition is dark, twisty, and taut. Believe me, this book is all of those things. But, it is also the story of the strength of family. In the end we are left with the feeling that all those who remain will now be completely free from the past and will move forward with the help and love of one another. The book was well written, well plotted and utterly absorbing. Highly recommend! Thanks to Netgalley and Viking publishing for the ARC
    • 4/5
      Set in England, the tale involves a close-knit family named MacBride, whose members soon become the focus of a pathological mission to destroy them. The entire group comes together at the traditional family getaway near a remote village, where cellphones won't work and no electronics are allowed. It is there and in both Saxby and London that a tale of unreasonable, sustained hatred and revenge bubbles up, threatening to tear the happy family apart and leave them with a wound that will never heal. Summary BPLWhile the plot may be far fetched, The Burning Air refuses to let the reader realize it. The trajectory of revenge is relentless, spanning years, false identities, rising fortunes and uncanny opportunism.In the character of Darcy, Ms Kelly shows us how a psychopath might be formed: a single mother disowned by her family, her promising university education cut short by the birth of an illegitimate child and reduced to living on welfare. She becomes obsessed that her son will have access to the opportunities snatched away from her. An anorexic, she monitors her son's food intake."We're above all that flesh-and-blood nonsense," she often said. "Our aim is to live entirely in the mind. Only weak and stupid people live through their bodies. We are superior to all that. We are cerebral people. The body is sex and shit and birth and mucus. What good can ever come of all that?"When Darcy is denied admittance to the local public school, the Cath (by the admissions tutor, Rowan MacBride) although he knows he has performed well on the entrance exams, both Darcy and his mother become convinced that the scholarship was awarded to someone the MacBrides knew, perhaps one of their own children. When Rowan refuses to reconsider his decision and as Darcy's mother declines in health, the young man's mind is poisoned against the MacBrides. The quality of Ms Kelly's plotting is revealed when she draws the reader into the upper-class MacBride family history not without its own secrets, guilt and shame. In the end, the upstanding, superior family crosses the line to protect its own.A wonderfully complicated psychological suspense story!8 out of 10. Highly recommended to readers who enjoy mysteries, suspense and fine writing.
    • 4/5
      The great thing about this author is that she writes good psychological suspense and does it be inventing completely new plots with each book, no series. This was a very good book, a book in which I did not like any of the characters but kept reading to see where it was going. Every time I thought the plot was going one way, I was confronted with another twist, another surprise. Families, their hidden secrets, revelations and long holding obsessions and hate are the cornerstones of this book. Would have given this a higher rating but I thought the ending was wrapped up a little to tidily and that one of the protagonists was allowed to just get on with her life. Found that a little strange after all that happened. But for sure another very good read by Kelly.
    • 5/5
      The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, an altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia.But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home - a restored barn in the English countryside - years of secrets surface, and they discover a stranger in their midst. A stranger who is convinced that Lydia was a murderer. A stranger who has been exacting vengeance upon the family for years without their ever knowing. And one who will threaten the youngest MacBride, baby Edie, and the clan's memory of Lydia, shattering their world forever.My Thoughts:This book is really good. I couldn’t put it down. It is so easy to read and unlike some thrillers, not complicated but with plenty of twists and turns. What made the book for me was the twist half way through. I thought it was clever how the author led me to believe one thing and it turned out to be something else. When you have read the book you will know what I mean. It is very difficult to try to explain without giving anything away.I really enjoyed this book and having liked EK other two books she is an author who I will seek out in the future. I can see that this book would also make an excellent adaptaion for tv.