Thursday, 18 March 2021

Future Perfect by Felicia Yap


Hardback: Is a perfect future possible in an imperfect world?

A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large and he may strike again. Yet this is the least of Police Commissioner Christian Verger's worries. His fiancĂ©e Viola has left him. He has to keep his tumultuous past a secret. To make things worse, his voice assistant Alexa is 99.74% sure he will die tomorrow.

Moving from snowy 1980s Montana to chic 1990s Manhattan to a drone-filled 2030s Britain, Future Perfect (2021) is an electrifying race to solve a murder before it is too late. Yet it is also a love story, a riveting portrait of a couple torn apart by secrets, grief and guilt. A twisted tale of how the past can haunt a person's future and be used to predict if he will die... or kill.

About the author: Felicia Yap grew up in Kuala Lumpur. She read biochemistry at Imperial College London, followed by a doctorate in history (and a half-blue in competitive ballroom dancing) at Cambridge University. She has written for The Economist and the Business Times. She has also been a radioactive-cell biologist, a war historian, a university lecturer, a technology journalist, a theatre critic, a flea-market trader and a catwalk model. Felicia's debut thriller, Yesterday (2017), has been translated into multiple languages around the world. Future Perfect is her second novel.

Rating: 3/5

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