Watching from the Dark Watching from the Dark

Watching from the Dark

The gripping new crime thriller from the Richard and Judy bestselling author

    • 4.8 • 5 Ratings
    • $15.99

Publisher Description

The gripping, twisting crime novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy thriller pick She Lies in Wait - soon to be a major ITV drama starring Martin McCann

'Gripping, multi-layered and fresh. Terrific' WILL DEAN, author of Dark Pines
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Aidan Poole logs onto his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. But to his horror, he realizes she is not alone.

Completely helpless, all he can do is listen to the sounds of a violent struggle.

And then a chilling silence.

He's desperate to find out if she is OK. So why is he so hesitant to call the police?

When his messages finally reach them, DCI Jonah Sheens and his team take the case.

And discover the body. . .

Watching from the Dark is the spellbinding thriller that you won't want to miss.
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'An absolute gem - I was hooked from the first page' JO JAKEMAN, author of Sticks and Stones

'A genuine page turner. It kept me guessing right until the end' CHRIS HAMMER, author of Scrublands

'A satisfyingly complex whodunnit that will keep readers gripped and baffled in equal measure' Daily Express

Praise for Gytha Lodge:

'A novel that literally makes you hold your breath then gasp out loud' VAL MCDERMID

'What a marvel! A corkscrew-twisty, knife-sharp thriller' A J FINN, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

'An engaging tale of lust, rivalry and murder' The Sunday Times

'Brilliantly formed characters and a twisty, clever plot had me turning pages well past my bed time' HEIDI PERKS, bestselling author of Now You See Her

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2020
6 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SELLER
Penguin Books Limited
SIZE
3.7
MB

Customer Reviews

rhitc ,

Nothing new to see

3.5 stars

Author
English. Studied English at Cambridge, then creative writing at Uni of East Anglia. Award-winning playwright, novelist, screenwriter, writer of video games, head of the copywriting team at a global translation firm, and single Mum blogger. Busy, busy in other words. This is the second in a three-book crime series she signed up to write in 2019. The third instalment comes out in March 2021.

In brief
The action takes place in Southhampton and Winchester. A 26-year-old female art student of colour (her skin as well as her paintings) from a middle class background gets dead in the bath. It looks like suicide but isn't. Investigation by DCI Sheens and his team unravels a multi-threaded plot involving dead chick's friends and family, her married lover/ex-lover, her landlord, the people at the coffee shop where she works, yada, yada. Plenty of realistic procedural detail. Red herrings strewn about willy nilly. The investigating team deal with personal issues on the side. Many hot and cold bevvies later, they nail the perp. The end, apart from some tidying up in an epilogue.

Writing
Crisp, clear prose that shuttles back and forth in time to fill in backstory. The metaphor of filling in background detail on our gal's prize winning painting is ever present.

Bottom line
Solid genre fiction. Gets the job done. Nothing new to see here though, folks.

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