#BlogTour: The Chamber by Will Dean @willrdean @HodderBooks @AlainnaGeorgiou #TheChamber #WillDean

Book Synopsis:

The master of intense suspense, Will Dean, is back! THE CHAMBER follows the success of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE LAST PASSENGER.

HIGH PRESSURE OUTSIDE
On a boat heading out into the North Sea, Ellen Brooke steels herself to spend almost a month locked inside a hyperbaric chamber with five other divers. They are all being paid handsomely for this work – to be lowered each day inside a diving bell to the sea bed, taking it in turns to dive down and repair oil pipes that lie in the dark waters. It is a close knit team and it has to be: any error or loss of trust could be catastrophic.

EXTREME PRESSURE INSIDE
All is going to plan until one of the divers is found unresponsive in his bunk. He hadn’t left the chamber. It will take four more days of decompression, locked away together, before the hatch can be opened. Four more days of bare steel, intrusive thoughts, and the constant struggle not to give way to panic. Mind games, exhaustion, suspicion, and, most of all, pressure. And if someone does unlock the door, everyone dies…

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller from the author of the “astonishing” (Ian Rankin) The Last Passenger.

My Review:

The Chamber is another chilling, gripping read from one of my favourite thriller writers.

The underground world the author has created in this book was very clever and I enjoyed exploring it alongside the characters. It was interesting to learn more about each of the team members and a bit about Ellen herself who I thought was a very impressive woman. The author has clearly done her research and I enjoyed learning more about what diving involves and the different missions you could be sent on. I’ve actually tried scuba diving before and found it quite frightening so I enjoyed following the characters on their journey safely from my sofa!

I thought this book was very fast paced and I soon found it very difficult to put the book down. The locked room scenario the author has created was very clever and helped add to the almost palpable tension as we slowly wait for the pod to rise to the surface. There were lots of twists that kept me guessing and I wasn’t able to figure out what was happening next which I always love. The ending was interesting and while I wish we’d learned more about the reasons behind what happened I was very satisfied with how everything was wrapped up.

Huge thanks to Alainna from Hodder and Stoughton for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.

About The Author:

Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying law at the LSE, and working many varied jobs in London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a boggy forest clearing and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.