Oftentimes, a book termed as a psychological thriller has so few psychological elements to it that it cannot be called one. I’ve also read very few books that not only successfully play tricks with its characters’ minds, but also with its readers’. Keri Beevis accomplishes both through her wonderful, twisted psychological thriller “Trust No One” quite effortlessly, thus justifying her place in the best selling authors list.

Trust: That is the crux of this whole book. How do we decide if a person is trustworthy? How much does anyone really know about any other person? Do we really know the people we think we do? The reader is forced to ask themselves these questions — along with the book’s protagonist, Olivia Blake.

Olivia, who is working in a real estate agency, one day gets a note taunting her about her past mistakes, and is soon lured into walking into a crime scene where a bound man has been set aflame. When she learns that the man is someone she went to school with, she begins to realize that the note may not be a prank after all and something far more sinister is at play. Though her boyfriend, Noah Keen, has certain theories regarding the murder, Olivia doesn’t place much credence to it until another of her former classmate is murdered and the video of it is sent to her phone.

These classmates and Olivia are connected by an incident that happened during a field trip when she was 16 that almost killed her, taken her friend Margaret’s life and left her with scars. But what is the relation between what happened then and the horrible deaths of these people from her past? How is it connected? Read through this book to know more.

“Trust No One” is a masterful tale of friendship, betrayal and deception, interspersed with psychological elements like gaslighting and mind games. Though the story is mostly told from Olivia’s perspective, the reader also gets a great insight into the nature and motivations of the story’s main players. The atmosphere of the book is so moody and the terror the characters feel is so very palpable that you get an extremely immersive dark experience throughout the book. I was extremely terrified by the time I finished reading it.

Though I was able to more or less guess who the culprit was when I was about 60 percent through the book, the other small twists and turns peppered throughout the story held my attention completely. However, the final twist in the epilogue was one I didn’t expect at all.

I can’t recommend this book more for lovers of psychological thrillers; do not miss it and you will definitely not regret reading it.

This book gets 5 out of 5 stars.