Leah is in love. It should be the happiest summer of her life, but she can't help feeling lonely with Jake's attention divided between her, his ex-wife and his young son. As insomnia sets in, the walls of their new basement flat feel as if they're closing in around her.
Until she meets her upstairs neighbour, Anton, who has recently moved back in after a long absence from the street. He's a sympathetic ear when Jake can't be, and even though others on the street seem strangely hostile towards him, Leah soon comes to rely on Anton and their secret conversations in the night.
Leah has no idea that nineteen years before, Anton was convicted of killing his wife. A wife who looked a little bit like Leah. He has always said he didn't do it.
Is Leah his redemption? Or is she befriending a killer intent on luring her closer and closer?
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(@PenguinUKBooks, 27 June 2019, 400 pages, ebook, copy from @PenguinUKBooks via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I love thrillers. I've read hundreds of them over the years. There are so many written that it's hard to offer something truly unique and original. This book is a slow-burner rather than an in your face murderous mess than tends to be very common with crime books now. The tension and suspense is slowly built and is almost unbearable at times. You know something terrible is going to happen but have no idea who is going to be the victim and who the perpetrator really is. The book is so creepy. Anton is a strange character and at times I didn't know what to think of him. He plays the role as a villain and possible monster yet at times seems to be a perfectly nice guy. The book opens with a scene demanding your attention when a boy appears in park, covered in blood and asking for help. Who wouldn't want to know what happens next? I liked the fact there are three different POV character so you need to read and work out whose telling the true version of events.
