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The Good Samaritan
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What began as a small act of kindness becomes a nightmare that tears a family apart in this chilling psychological thriller about guilt, pride, obsession, and the terrible cost of being seen.
Daniel Mercer has a good life. A loving wife. A teenage daughter. A steady job. A warm home in a quiet neighbourhood. Then, in the frozen food aisle of a supermarket, he notices a scruffy young man counting coins for basic groceries. Hoping to spare the stranger embarrassment, Daniel pretends to find a twenty-pound note on the floor and offers it back with a smile.
The young man does not thank him.
He stares at Daniel with hatred.
His name is Ryan Weir.
What follows is not simple revenge, but a slow and terrifying dismantling of Daniel's world. Ryan begins watching him. Entering his home. Contacting his daughter. Twisting every attempt at help, apology, or control into another weapon. As the harassment escalates, Daniel finds himself becoming the very man Ryan insists he is - angry, paranoid, violent, and frightening to the people he loves most.
With the police closing in and his family slipping further away, Daniel must confront a horrifying possibility:
What if one careless moment of kindness destroyed two lives instead of saving one?
Dark, tense, and deeply unsettling, The Good Samaritan is a psychological thriller about humiliation, obsession, and how quickly a decent man can lose himself when every act of compassion becomes a trap.
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