In a quiet, respectable place during the height of a wedding celebration, an array of video cameras keeps watch as a murder occurs. The bride is killed—and the circumstances of the death, recorded minute by minute, at first glance raise no doubts. But the clues run out, the evidence leads nowhere, and the motives of the alleged killer—the missing Mexican gardener—remain unclear.
“Shut Your Eyes Tight” is the second suspense-filled novel by the American writer John Verdon, in which a retired police officer, Dave Gurney, becomes the main character. Gurney is firmly convinced that a killer cannot fail to leave some kind of trace, and he takes the case. Yet neither he nor his former colleagues even suspect where the new, unexpected circumstances of the case may lead—and what terrifyingly large-scale story lies hidden behind a family drama.