WOW! AWESOME! COMPELLING! RIVETING! POSSIBLY THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ THIS YEAR.
If I hadn't known this was a debut novel before I started reading, I would have thought this a well crafted book by a veteran author.
It starts with a woman seeing a child face down in a neighbor's pool. By the time she ran downstairs and next door, there was nothing there. She also feels that someone, somehow is entering her home at night and moving things. The wonders if because there actually is a missing child, her mind is inventing things.
Her neighbor is Sam, who is staying in his new home alone while the wife and kids are visiting her mother. Sam seems friendly enough, but she increasingly comes to mistrust him.
At first the reader may be confused .... chapters bounce from now to then, first from this person, then another. It's like a jigsaw puzzle at first ... how does this person relate to that person, then and now?
There are some major twists that just keep coming. It's like being in a house of mirrors ..you never know what's behind the next turn ... or on the other side of the wall.
I highly recommend this one to anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers. This is definitely an author to watch for.
I won the digital copy from LibraryThing, so I wish to thank them and the author for making this book available. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
If I hadn't known this was a debut novel before I started reading, I would have thought this a well crafted book by a veteran author.
It starts with a woman seeing a child face down in a neighbor's pool. By the time she ran downstairs and next door, there was nothing there. She also feels that someone, somehow is entering her home at night and moving things. The wonders if because there actually is a missing child, her mind is inventing things.
Her neighbor is Sam, who is staying in his new home alone while the wife and kids are visiting her mother. Sam seems friendly enough, but she increasingly comes to mistrust him.
At first the reader may be confused .... chapters bounce from now to then, first from this person, then another. It's like a jigsaw puzzle at first ... how does this person relate to that person, then and now?
There are some major twists that just keep coming. It's like being in a house of mirrors ..you never know what's behind the next turn ... or on the other side of the wall.
I highly recommend this one to anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers. This is definitely an author to watch for.
I won the digital copy from LibraryThing, so I wish to thank them and the author for making this book available. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
