Book "Forfeited" by Esther Verhoef

Esther Verhoef, born in 1968, is one of the most successful authors in the Netherlands. She has received many awards, among others with the Dutch thriller price.

Dianne and Eve are neighborhood children, they become friends, to blood sisters. They have sworn eternal loyalty and mutual trust. Dianne, the older, is always the stronger, the leader, looks up to the Eva. Dianne spends days in Eve’s family, where a lovable, caring mother care, while Dianne’s parents as do-gooders and protesters on an ego trip.

Eva is a journalist for a local newspaper. When they announced her unceremoniously, she feels miserable, angry at herself because she lacked the courage to contradict, she was too controlled, almost meekly. Dianne had the leave not like it, they would have jumped her counterpart more aggressive to the collar.

Now Eva needs distance, has to think. Only a week earlier than planned it takes a trip to France, to make holiday with Dianne. Who has to live close to nature, rented a small house ( “Le Paradis”) in a small isolated village.

Eva is really curious where Dianne was still really fall into raptures over the phone.

After more than one thousand kilometers journey from the Netherlands finds Eva barely a lonely, miserable and weathered house, surrounded by a dark forest. Dianne is not there, after also her cell phone was turned off all day. In a watering Eva finds a house key; she unpacks her bags to feed only once for the night and wait for Dianne.

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The next morning she talks to the neighbors, asks the village pub and small supermarket. Everywhere she meets icy rejection, the door is referred harshly. Daniel, the ten year old neighbor boy says Eva, what people are talking like this: You do not want any foreigners who interfere in things that do not concern them. Eva understands nothing. As these conditions suit Dianne rosy descriptions? That one wants to scare Eve, it becomes obvious as you willfully entering the back door and it presents a slit cat on the garbage can. For help turns Eva at the village police, but you have for such banter there is no time, because there are urgent matters: Just a couple was brutally murdered

Esther Verhoef begins her novel with the description of a brutal execution.. Slowly she builds her concentrated tension on the first closer to the creation of atmosphere, the design of the scenes of action and the portrayal of people building (where the narrative details fussiest its sights). In Dianne’s inhospitable house Eva felt subliminally, that there is something out there that threatens their lives. When her anxiety becomes overwhelming and she decides that it is to leave, Erwin is their only fresh relationship into play.

Eva, the gray, frightened mouse, gains strength and self-confidence grows beyond itself. You must find Dianne. For this she takes up the fight against the hostile villagers. They kidnapped, keeps them in a basement caught, but it keeps the nerves. Finally, it will even offer as a decoy, to convert one of the main suspects. This personality development from one extreme to the other I think is a bit excessive.

Someone “addicted” to be called, have become enslaved by him, to have delivered to him involuntarily. Verhoef comprehensible developed such obsessive relationship that goes so far that a partner joins the violence of the other, and eventually becomes a murderer.