It’s been a long time since I read a book like this.
A crime fiction, psychological thriller is the best way to describe it but it’s so much more than that. Stephen King is mentioned numerous times in this book, and the story sits right in with some of his work.
It’s dark, and it plays with your head.
Lyn Darrow is a literature teacher. She is also is a young widow, and since the death of her husband has become a reclusive bookworm, losing herself in books rather than facing reality. Although she still works in a local school she spends all of her down time in her isolate country home.
Her life derails even further when she reads a passage in a book which is an accurate account of her experience on the day her husband was killed in a hit and run close to their home.
This is quickly followed by her discovering a body with a hornets nest on its head in her rear yard. But when the police attend there is no body. Just footprints leading to and from her house from the woods.
The hornets nest is another sign. Something she’d rather not remember from her past.
Although most people seem to think she’s over exaggerating, telling her it’s just teenage pranksters, there are a few who believe and support her.
The school principle, the library assistant who keeps her supplied with a TBR of books her husband read, the one sympathetic police officer, and an unlikely student.
The trouble is surely one of these people must be responsible for messing with her head. They are the only ones close enough to her, and who have access to her house, to make the things that are happening to her happen.
What follows is a trail of chaos that is aimed at mentally destroying Lyn, but it goes much further and people start to go missing, or worse, get murdered.
At times reading this book was like watching one of those TV thrillers, or horror movies, when you just want to shout “turn a light on” or “don’t go in there”
At 327 pages it’s not a short book but it is a quick read. Once I started it I couldn’t stop and this was the first book, in a long time, that I’ve read in a day.
The end comes quickly, and when it did I let out one of those long sighs. Did I get the right suspect?
Eventually.
Was it obvious?
No!
Will I read any other books by K.L Griffiths?
YES
Pages: 327. Publisher: Cottonwood Fire LLC Audiobook: 8 hours 12 minutes. Narrator: Joshua Katchnycz
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