I See You (Mackintosh) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, please use our LitLovers talking points to start a discussion for I See You…then take off on your own:

1. Talk about Zoe Walker, her personality, as well as her life above ground: job and family life. Does she make a credible and/or sympathetic character?

2. What about Kelly Swift. She's on a lousy assignment, what is considered a probationary period for having attacked a rapist. How would you describe Kelly? Author Clare Mackintosh was a policewoman in a former life; how much do you think her previous job influenced her portrayal of Kelly?

3. How does Mackintosh ratchet up the suspense in her novel, the element in any good thriller that keeps you turning the page?

4. Did you guess the villain's identity before the end? If so, how?

5. The novel's ending has everyone is talking. Did you see the twist coming? Do you think it's well done, or does it feel forced?

6. What about the epilogue. How does it affect your reading of the book? What feeling does it leave you with? Why might the author have chosen to include it?

7. Do you think the world is filled with the kind of evil that this and the many other recent thrillers would have us believe? Think of recent books, their victims, and sociopathic villains. Is the world this dangerous?

(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)

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