Published by One More Chapter
Publication Date 29th April 2022 (kindle), 26th May 2022 paperback
Genre: Thriller
Book Description:
The Removal Man is an utterly unputdownable suspense thriller from the author of The Dinner Party and The Good Neighbour that imagines your worst house-moving nightmare – and then dials it up to 11.
Rose is moving. For her and her son, Noah, this is going to be a fresh start.
She’s almost finished packing but Noah is determined to spend one last night camping out in the garden like he used to. Rose agrees as long as he wraps up warm inside their small tent.
Four hours later she’s woken by a frantic banging on the window.
It’s Noah.
There’s someone in the garden.
That’s when Rose picks up the kitchen knife.
My Thoughts:
We meet Rose as she packs up the last few boxes of her belongings and watches as the removal company load the bigger furniture into the lorry and take it away. She and Noah have one last night at the house before they move on to the next chapter of their lives. They're moving to an apartment without a private garden so when Noah asks if he can camp out in the garden one last time Rose feels it would be too harsh to say no despite it hardly being the ideal weather to do so. Maybe she should have trusted her mother's instinct and suffered a sulky child rather than gone through the events which would follow.
It's only a few hours into Noah's camp-out when he appears frantically knocking at the door with a look of fear in his eyes. Rose goes out with him to investigate as he is convinced there is someone in the garden. After a good search round Rose is happy that there is nobody there but Noah wants the reassurance of her company out in the tent, so she resigns herself to an uncomfortable night without sleep. Never a fan of the outdoor lifestyle Rose knows she won't settle but soon becomes aware of the sounds her son reported earlier. From this point on the story takes a very sinister turn.
As a book reviewer I hate to give any spoilers away but this edge of your seat thriller really does need to be read without knowing anything other than the setting detailed above. There is an extremely small cast of characters which creates a tight, pressure cooker atmosphere. Once you realise that Noah and Rose are not imagining the sounds they hear and where they originate from your mind goes into overdrive as regards who, why and how they are happening. I flew through this book in a day, and it really is an appropriate signing for the publisher as you really do want to read "one more chapter" (then another and another) as each one leaves you on a cliffhanger as to how and if Rose and Noah are going to make it to their new home the next day.
Some parts of the story are maybe a little far-fetched - buy hey, it's fiction after all and a little bit of artistic licence never hurt embellish a story. It certainly had my pulse racing at regular intervals throughout - especially once we found out quite what the intruder was capable of prior to making their presence known that evening - and I honestly wasn't sure which of the characters was going to come out on top at the end.
A top-notch page turner, one which I was glad to be reading in daylight hours!
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