Published by Pan MacMillan
Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Genre: Mystery, Thrillers
Book Description:
It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday.
You have been called to an interview for your dream job.
In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing you.
Everyone else has gone home for the weekend.
The interview gets more and more disturbing.
You’re feeling scared.
Your only way out is to answer a seemingly impossible question.
If you can’t . . . what happens next?
My Thoughts:
Do you ever start a book and want to shout at the lead character to turn and walk away from the whole situation in the first chapter? This was how I felt right from the start of this psychological thriller from CM Ewan. I'm a person who gets suspicious of people and places that seem too good to be true because that's usually exactly what they are. The Mirror, a trendy new high rise office block in London where Kate has been called in for an interview, is one of those places. Her recruitment agent Maggie reassures her that she has nothing to worry about, she's perfect for the role she's being interviewed for; all she has to do is be herself.
Alarm bells ring for Kate from the moment she is introduced to the man who's interviewing her that day - she was told it would be a woman and nobody has offered any explanation or apology for the change in personnel. Things head swiftly downhill from that point onwards and I have to say I found some of the situations Kate encountered a bit far-fetched and slightly repetitive. However the short, action-packed chapters keep the tension ramped up to the maximum and the timely addition of new characters and some shocking twists will have your pulse racing right to the end. The stifling feeling of claustrophobia carries well throughout the whole book, and every time you feel Kate begins to stand a chance of perhaps escaping the offices of Edge Communications the doors are quite literally slammed in her face.
I did struggle with the whole back story of why Kate had ended up being interviewed by Joel, and that part of the book was the one which didn't work so well for me. Maybe other people will find differently but it didn't click for me personally. Not sufficiently for it to spoil the book overall but my feeling was that it was two separate storylines which didn't quite blend. A good concept which just failed to hit the mark.
About The Author:
Chris Ewan is a British crime and mystery writer. He is best known for his "Good Thief" series of travelling adventures featuring Charlie Howard, a thief and author of his own crime series. Ewan was born in Taunton, Somerset, and lived on the Isle of Man with his family before moving back to Somerset.
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