Cyrus Haven is a psychologist who is asked by a colleague to help with the mysterious Evie Cormac. Evie was held captive and abused for years. No-one knows her real name, if she has any family or her actual age. Evie has been a ward of the court for years and held in a high security children's home because she is deemed to be a risk to herself. Evie is now demanding to be seen as an adult and released.
Cyrus also supports the police in his role as a psychologist and his expertise is called on when a teenage girl is discovered dead. The murderer is quickly apprehended but Cyrus has doubts that the case is as open and shut as the police believe.
I discovered Michael Robotham last year when I read When You Are Mine so when NetGalley made available review copies of Lying Beside You I jumped at the chance to read more from the author. What I didn't realise at the time was that Lying Beside You is the third book in the Cyrus Haven series.
This book is less about the murder of the teenage girl as it is the relationship between Cyrus and Evie. Both characters have traumatic backstories. We learn quickly of the tragedy involving Cyrus. This background is what gives him the connection to Evie and a driving need to help her. Evie is the complete opposite of Cyrus. We learn very little about her background and she comes across as an unlikeable character. The more we get to know Evie we realise that she has built walls around herself as a defense mechanism. She also has the ability to know when people are lying and this makes it even more difficult for her to trust people.
I enjoyed the way in which the relationship between the two main characters developed and it was a relief that everything wasn't tied up neatly at the end. I'm looking forward to seeing how this relationship develops in the next two books.
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