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.
You can run, but you can't hide; even if you go to the ends of the earth. A fact that research scientist Felicity Lloyd is all too well aware, having accepted a posting to South Georgia. The location barely a speck of rock in the South Atlantic. Her plan is to escape the man she most fears. Now he is a passenger on a liner heading for the island. She has nowhere left to run.
This book switches neatly between the frantic few hours following the arrival of Felicity's stalker, and events in Cambridge a few months earlier - an unsettling time when an enigmatic figure terrorised the local homeless population; and all the while Felicity suffered from frightening memory lapses.
Sharon [S. J.] Bolton has assembled one of the most skillfully crafted suspense novels I have ever encountered. In so doing, she touches upon some complex and profound issues. These include the unreliability of memory and how we create, and curate our own sense of self.
Bolton writes elegantly about the mental illness experienced by a key character in a way, that makes them neither a victim not a villain; just someone who engages differently with reality, than perhaps others do.
The remoteness of the location bestows a sense of brooding tension, which is coupled to heart-stopping action sequences, making this into an extraordinary thriller.
This is intelligent crime writing at its very best; not to be missed.
