Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
How far would you go to protect your child? When her son kills a man in a road accident and fails to report it to the police the chain of events that follow on force Karen Mayo to find out. Over the space of a few days the ordered life she has made along with her son’s dreams making it into college are put in jeopardy. To save their lives both Karen and Joshua will be pushed to extremes they could never have imagined.
Tom Hunt's second novel is a masterclass in building tension to breaking point, then turning the screw just a little bit more. He shows a brilliantly developed understanding of the pressures and insecurities that trap individuals in the cycle of crime.
Hunt also writes assuredly about the fragility of the life we think of as normal, showing an instinctive understanding of how a single action can create endless ripples. Each one with the potential to turn into a tsunami wrecking everything in its path in the wrong circumstances.
Hunt shows a master’s skill at using the tricks of the thriller writer’s trade to keep his readers on the edge of their seats. His prose style effortlessly nods towards the excellent movie this book is crying out to be made into, that will surely to the same for cinema audiences.
That alone would be achievement enough for any writer, Tom Hunt adds to this by showing the sort of empathy for his characters that lifts genre writing towards the lofty heights of literature. He is fully aware of their weaknesses, and that within all but the worst there is at least the possibility of something more ‘noble’ trying to get through.
Editor’s Note: Read Mark Timlin’s thoughts HERE
