Publisher: Thomas Mercer | Publication date: 30th June 2015 | Edition: Kindle (review copy)
Follow You Home is an intense mind-messing thriller with attitude – one so compelling and oh, so dark.
What goes on in the woods, stays in the woods. Not if it ‘Follows You Home’, by Mark Edwards.
It lulls you into a false sense of security before launching unexpected twists at you; first you’re paddling on the edge, then you’re wading, and the farther in you go you realise just how incredibly well plotted (and sub plotted) it is.
So, if you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise – and there’s an understatement, if ever there was one.
Daniel Sullivan and Laura Mackenzie. A fairly unremarkable couple, making plans to get married, start a family. They decided to throw caution to the wind and embark on a ‘Grand Tour’ before they settle down. And it’s all mapped out. Travelling through Europe, France, Spain, Italy, Greece…finally to Russia, and then, aaah, home-sweet-home.
They’ve been skipping about like little lambs until they reach Romania by train, when their journey is terrifyingly interrupted. After their hideous experience they travel home to London as quickly as the authorities will let them. But the trauma of the trip proves too great a strain to simply allow them settle back into their routine lives. Normality is now something that other people encounter.
As the book blurb states, they vow never to talk about ‘the woods’ with anyone, and this is where Mark Edwards succeeds in giving new definition to the phrase ‘lingering suspense’. He cruelly taunts you with little snippets of the couple’s time abroad, carefully teasing out the truth until the finale. My instinct had been clinging to the wrong scent due to the sheer number of vultures circling the scene.
I hesitate to use the term ‘psychological thriller’, as it just won’t cut it on this occasion. That would be categorising this book in the same league as many, many others. No, I couldn’t do that. This is ‘look-over-your-shoulder-whilst-reading’ worthy.
Twisted? Certainly. Disturbing? Absolutely. Why, you ask? Well, what goes on in the woods, stays in the woods…or does it? Sometimes, it just might Follow You Home.
~ WICKEDLY RECOMMENDED ~
Rating: 5/5
(My sincere thanks to both the author, Mark Edwards, and our tour organiser, Liz Barnsley, for THE most excellent review copy and allowing me to be part of this tour x)
Twitter: You can follow the author on Twitter (not home): @mredwards
Website: Want to know more about Mark Edwards? Visit his website
Where to buy: Would you like to purchase Follow You Home? Buy, my pretties, buy: Amazon UK
(Extract taken from Amazon UK)
The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home.
Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, they realise they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is just beginning…
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