LoveReading Expert Review of The Lingering
An enthralling, ghostly, yet thoroughly modern tale.
A thrilling, chilling, shocking tale, perfect if you take delight in an icy shiver scuttling down your spine. A couple leaves their life behind them to join a commune in a former psychiatric hospital, events soon start to spin terrifyingly out of control. The prologue pounced on my imagination, I was immediately hooked and remained so until the very last page was turned. Several different characters take their turn in the spotlight in the present day, while a journal from the past casts a further shadow over proceedings. S.J.I Holliday weaves the different strands of the story together beautifully, each settling over the other while twisting thoughts and feelings. As I read my reasoning teetered one way and then the other. A supernatural presence heightens the tension further and my mind and heart fairly skittered in anticipation at what was to come. The Lingering is an exquisitely eerie tale, and I loved every single word of it.
The Lingering Synopsis
Married couple Jack and Ali Gardiner move to a self-sufficient commune in the English Fens, desperate for fresh start. The local village is known for the witches who once resided there and Rosalind House, where the commune has been established, is a former psychiatric home, with a disturbing history. When Jack and Ali arrive, a chain of unexpected and unexplained events is set off, and it becomes clear that they are not all that they seem. As the residents become twitchy, and the villagers suspicious, events from the past come back to haunt them, and someone is seeking retribution... At once an unnerving locked-room mystery, a chilling thriller and a dark and superbly wrought ghost story, The Lingering is an exceptionally plotted, terrifying and tantalisingly twisted novel by one of the most exciting authors in the genre. `Quirky and cleverly plotted' Sunday Mirror `Dark and satisfying' Daily Mail `A compulsive read until the final, breathtaking page' Elizabeth Haynes `A forceful, gripping story that builds and builds the suspense until the stunning ending, which will leave readers gasping' Random Things Through My Letterbox `A must-read' Steve Cavanagh
About This Edition
| ISBN: | 9781912374533 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2018 |
| Author: | SJI Holliday |
| Publisher: | Orenda Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Collections: | 45 Novels With A Gothic Influence, 9 Chilling and Thought-Creeping Tales To Feast Your Eyes on These October Nights, |
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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ISBN: 9781912374533
Publication date: 15/11/2018
Format: Paperback
About SJI Holliday
S.J.I. (Susi) Holliday is a pharmaceutical statistician by day and a crime and horror fan by night. Her short stories have been published in many places and she was shortlisted for the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham prize with her story `Home from Home', which was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in spring 2017. She is the bestselling author of the creepy and claustrophobic Banktoun trilogy (Black Wood, Willow Walk and The Damselfly) featuring the much-loved Sergeant Davie Gray, and has dabbled in festive crime with the critically acclaimed The Deaths of December. Her latest psychological thriller is modern ...
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