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.
Home is where you are safest; right? Unless your home happens to have caught the eye of Thomas Brogan, a serial killer with a fondness for playing games with his victims.
On the run after his latest killing spree Brogan holes up in an abandoned house at the end of a quiet terraced street. Finding the house is connected to three others through its attic he decides to have a little fun with his neighbours. There is only one way this game can end, with pain, recriminations and then death.
David Jackson has taken one of the most primal of all our fears and turned it into a tense and claustrophobic thriller. One that plays on the tensions within relationships and the secrets that fester behind the seemingly untroubled frontage they show to the world.
In Thomas Brogan he has created a protagonist who transcends the familiar clichés about serial killers. He is a man shaped and shattered by his experiences sailing a singular course through life guided by his own warped take on morality.
In any year this would probably be one of the stand out novels in the crime genre, the current COVID-Lockdown situation has made it even more powerful. We have all been spending more time at home recently, this book might just make you feel a little more nervous the next time you hear a floorboard creak.
