Do I want to live forever? Book DescriptionĪ breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series. And when you’ve finished reading it, ask yourself one question. If you love well-researched thrillers where, at times, the bad guys outnumber the good, then I suggest you grab Constance. Should clones enjoy the same rights as their originals? Are they even people? If a person commits murder, can their clone be held responsible after the original dies? That, my friends, would make for some interesting dinner conversation. There was one idea that stood out for me. And the questions cloning raises are numerous and troubling. The world-building is solid and believable. Besides the excellent writing, it’s the research that makes this novel enjoyable. Despite missing eighteen months of memories, she goes in search of answers. And like the first Constance, she’s independent and fearless. In classic whodunnit form, Con D’Arcy’s clone awakens because her original is dead.

In Constance by Matthew Fitzsimmons, human cloning exists, although it comes with a few glitches. And when you wrap it in a sci-fi thriller about human clones, it sings. The idea of a character hunting their killer is powerful. Has one of his clones? With no memory of his previous selves, and working fast before he's arrested, Chance digs into Conway's background, the mysteries of his own life-and death-and the tragic abduction that tore his family apart.Īll Chance has to do is stay ahead of the LAPD his kidnappers, who are back on the hunt and a growing mob of incensed protesters outraged that a rich clone appears to be getting away with murder.My introduction to the story of a person attempting to solve their own murder came when I saw the outstanding 1949 noir classic D.O.A., starring Edmond O’Brien. The public, though? They can't get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle.īut after Chance's latest 'refresh,' he awakens to accusations that he's killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met. Chance was revived-and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong.

For Chance Harker, it's a way of getting on with his lives. A clone plays a dangerous game of life, death, memory, and murder in a twisting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Matthew FitzSimmons.Ĭloning is a luxury for the wealthy.

Constance by matthew fitzsimmons