Book Synopsis:
You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you.
Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’ mobile phones, city traffic cameras – he is convinced that they are all watching him, recording his every move. All because of something terrible that happened at a drunken party when he was a medical student.
Only two other people knew what happened that night. Two people he’s long left behind. Until one of them, Clio – Adam’s great unrequited love – turns up on his doorstep, and reignites a sinister pact twenty-four years in the making…
No Place to Hide is a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together the dark web, murder, and blackmail…
My Review:
No Place To Hide is a tense, gripping read which is one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve read this year. It’s going to be a hard book to review as I really don’t want to give anything away.
The story is told in two timelines, one following Dr. Adam who is married with kids in the present day and the other flashing back to Adam as an aspiring actor in his Cambridge University days. The two storylines compliment each other nicely with lots of subtle clues or hints about what might be going on. I especially liked the Cambridge setting in the past timeline as I felt it had a dark academia feeling to it and I loved all the fantastic descriptions of Cambridge which has made me want to go their soon.
I felt immediately drawn into the story and intrigued about why Adam was so paranoid someone was watching him. The story unfolds at a great pace with the tension slowly building up until it becomes almost unbearable. I read this book over a couple of days as I found this book so hard to put down as I desperately wanted to find out what was going on. The twist at the end was utterly brilliant and very unexpected. I had lots of different theories but ultimately wasn’t able to guess which I always love. If you’re a thriller fan I highly recommend this book.
Huge thanks to Sophie for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Jon Stock, writing under the name J.S.Monroe, is the author of five psychological thrillers, including the international bestseller, Find Me. Under his own name, he has written five spy novels, one of which, Dead Spy Running, was optioned by Warner Bros. He is currently the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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