Book review: The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale
The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale is a twisty tale from the Australian author whose previous books I have enjoyed and who I recently met in person at BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. We’re offered a likeable but certainly flawed lead in Zoe whose narration is akin to second person, as if she’s talking to us. It works well as we’re drawn into her world very quickly. It’s purely by chance that she reconnects with Zach, who she knew briefly (but intimately) three years before. Given what happens next she rues that chance meeting, but Zoe herself admits it’s not just the allure of Zach that attracts her, but the fact that he (and his world) become her writing muse, so there’s more than her heart (and life) on the line.
