The Suicide Gene

By: C. J. Zahner

Narrated by: Bob Johnson

She thought they were her siblings. By the time she realized they weren’t, one of them was dead.

Doctor Emma Kerr had no right counseling them. Adopted and her birth records lost, she believed she was born a McKinney. Her face, intelligence, and depression resembled theirs. For years people mistook her for their sister. So she devised a plan. What begins as a scheme to counsel the McKinney family and determine if they are blood relatives quickly causes Emma to wonder if she had truly done the manipulating. Is someone following her?

Now Emma clamors to escape the McKinney world of domination and deception. Is she Mathew McKinney’s sister? She can’t be. Is he in love with her? He can’t be. Then how do he and his sisters know more about her than she knows herself? This is a game to them. Is the game suicide? Or murder?

©2018 CJ Zahner (P)2019 CJ Zahner

psychological problems

it's a very very interesting problem about a very special girl that on the surface you think she has it's all but she doesn't ... and other problems comes as well.... the story was very very interesting and I loved it a lot it made you think a lot and it was very good the narrator was good as well

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Twists on Twins

To be honest, the title had somewhat put me off. Who wants to read depressing stuff? But a friend had assured me I'd enjoy this book and he was totally right! What we have, although clinical discussions of depression slide in here and there (hey, the protagonist is a shrink!), is a bit of a thriller, a cold case or two, a mystery and a romance all rolled into one, with some interesting twists. Lovingly narrated by Bob Johnson, I kept finding excuses to listen when, perhaps, I should have been otherwise occupied (just one more chapter and then I'll go to sleep).

Nurture or Genes?

Emma is a psychiatrist who has only been practicing for 2 years. She was adopted by birth by a wonderful family, but struggles with identity and psychological issues. She has had a lifelong obsession with “twin genes” and “suicide genes” Her birth and adoption records have mysteriously disappeared and she has often in the past been mistaken for a McKinney. Her belief that she may be a sibling intensifies when she begins to council the McKinneys, whose family has a history of suicide and twins. I loved everything about this book, the storyline, the characters, the intrigue and the little bit of romance. Bob Johnson has done, as usual, a fantastic job with the narration. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

A shrink in need of a shrink

This story is the kind that grows in you. It started to grab my attention (specially in the listening format) with the reading of the transcripts of the shrink consults of the McKinney family. The narrator does a great job in those scenes that are not that easy to give live to in an interesting and believable way. The silences and laughs are perfect, as are are most of the characters voices and personalities.
The story is about a shrink (adopted, born from unknown parents) that thinks is treating her (lost) brothers that have suicide tendencies. The book starts a bit confusing and with a slow pace, but is definitively worth the wait as the story picks up speed, the thriller finally shows itself and the ending is full of surprises, even when we thing it will have a predictable one.

Intense Psychological Listen

Very intense.

A burning psychological mystery that starts with just a handful of pieces about a family after suicide takes another member. As the story progresses, we are put into the middle of this family, to see the way they think and feel about each of the other members. As more therapy sessions are revealed, the pieces are slowly put together revealing a twist of an ending.