Mystery & Detective

Overview with Spoilers for Inform Me Who You Are

June 11, 2024

My Overview with Spoilers for Inform Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna asks: is that this e book a brand new Silent Affected person? Inform Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna acquired pitched as The Silent Affected person meets Gone Woman, which is an bold mixture. What’s the cope with this e book a couple of psychiatrist with a darkish previous? Let’s talk about.

Overview With Spoilers for Inform Me Who You Are

Inform Me Who You’re by Louisa Luna: Overview

Printed on June 4, 2024 by MCD/Macmillan
352 pages
Due to the writer for the advance evaluation copy
I learn this e book in Might 2024

Inform Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna: Jen’s Fast Abstract

Part of my Review with Spoilers for Tell Me Who You Are. Original photo of a copy of Tell Me Who You Are on a bookcase next to other pink and red thrillers and mysteries

Inform Me Who You Are is a basic psychological suspense e book
It has a number of POVs
The principle character is Dr. Caroline, an unconventional therapist with a darkish previous
Goodreads critiques are starkly divided, with readers both loving the e book or disliking it.
Additionally by Louisa Luna: the Alice Vega procedural collection, which incorporates Two Women Down, The Janes, and The Hideout. Luna additionally wrote two younger grownup novels and a comic book thriller.

Overview for Inform Me Who You Are: Jen’s Evaluation

I’ve actually loved Louisa Luna’s procedurals, that are darkish in tone and have bounty hunter Alice Vega, who groups up with a former cop to resolve gritty mysteries. So I used to be excited to see what she’d do with a suspense story.

Inform Me Who You Are options Dr. Caroline Unusual, a Brooklyn psychiatrist with a darkish previous.

Because the e book opens Dr. C has an appointment with Nelson Schack, a brand new affected person. Nelson tells her two issues: he is aware of who she actually is and he thinks he would possibly kill somebody.

In one other plot line, somebody kidnapped a reporter named Ellen Garcia. Her connection to Dr. Caroline? She wrote an article calling Caroline one of many worst docs in Brooklyn. So when the police are in search of Ellen, they arrive proper to Caroline’s doorstep.

In a 3rd plot line, a person named Gordon Sturdy has an apparent connection to a younger Caroline.

How Do These All Join?

I’ll let you know within the spoilers beneath, however they do.

My total tackle Inform Me Who You Are is that I get pleasure from Luna’s writing, however I didn’t love the plot of this or the decision. I additionally didn’t really feel very invested within the Gordon Sturdy plot.

I see the connections to The Silent Affected person: Caroline is a psychiatrist and her husband is a sculptor (there have been artwork themes in TSP.)

Nelson’s pronouncements intrigue (and alarm) Dr. Caroline, decides to analyze. My scorching tackle Alex Michaelides is that each one of his books have a robust basic thriller factor through which a personality interviews witnesses in an try and get to the reality. Dr. Caroline does this as effectively, falling down the Nelson rabbit gap.

I type of want that Inform Me Who You Are went MORE on the market, Gone Woman model.

For me, Inform Me Who You Are didn’t lean sufficient into the gaslighting and pulling out the rug underneath the reader {that a} good suspense story must do.

Spoilers for Inform Me Who You Are and the Ending Defined

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Who Kidnapped Ellen?

Nelson did. He felt a kinship with Dr. Caroline as a result of, as he stated, “I killed my household and also you killed the one subsequent door.” (Nelson killed his abusive father after which stored going, killing his mother and brother too.)

What? Did Caroline Actually Kill the Household Subsequent Door?

Nelson thinks so. He examine Caroline’s connection to the Sturdy household murders thirty years in the past. Gordon Sturdy, Caroline’s subsequent door neighbor, killed his teen children, his spouse, after which himself. Nelson turned obsessive about Caroline, and determined to kidnap Ellen as a result of she referred to as Caroline a nasty physician.

If that wasn’t sufficient, Nelson had Dissociative Identification Dysfunction and two alter egos: Will and Billy Harbin. Will discovered Caroline’s mom in a nursing residence and advised her that Caroline was a manipulative sociopath who was answerable for the murders. I’m unsure why he did this.

Huh?

I agree, that is the weirdest half. And I like bizarre … when it is sensible. How did Gordon determine that Caroline was concerned? Why does he determine talk about it along with her mom, a lady in a nursing residence with reminiscence points?

Dr. Caroline says that Nelson “kidnapped Ellen not solely to pledge allegiance to me but in addition to place me slightly bit the new seat. His objectives have been a bit splintered – he waned to have me for himself and in addition kill me. It was all blended up, the intercourse and mommy-daddy stuff and the enjoyment that violence introduced him.”

That could be a bit hand-wavy, however many readers have referred to as out Alex Michaelides for questionable psychiatric portrayals. I’m no knowledgeable, so I don’t know. Caroline calls DID (Dissociative Identification Dysfunction) a “Hefty bag of bullshit” and says that many consultants suppose sufferers with DID even have borderline persona dysfunction. So is she saying Nelson/Billy/Will is faking?

What’s the Ending of Inform Me Who You Are?

Nelson was sentenced to 25 years in jail. The rescued Ellen writes a brand new article through which she, Caroline, and the feminine detective on the case are survivors and heroes.

The twist on the finish (I suppose that is the Gone Woman factor) is that Caroline admits to manipulating Gordon into killing his household. Only for kicks, at age 13, she made the unstable Gordon into pondering his spouse was dishonest and leaving him. He then killed his spouse, his two youngsters, and himself.

Was this a shock? In no way, as a result of Caroline appeared very “off” the entire time. My principle was that Nelson/Invoice/Will have been all alter egos of Caroline, and that she kidnapped Ellen.

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