No Place to Hide

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Enflamed by escalating edge-of-your-seat terror, JS Monroe’s No Place to Hide is a gripping psychological thriller for our times, with cutting-edge surveillance techniques and the sinister dark web playing pivotal roles alongside a Faustian pact, and a femme fatale and edgy film-maker from its leading man’s past.

On the face of it, Adam has it all. After growing up in a small fishing village, he’s now a top paediatrician. Except, of course, that’s not the whole truth. Adam’s marriage to a GP has hit something of a rocky patch, and he’s plagued by a paranoid feeling that he’s being watched. Into this comes Clio, a French woman Adam had quite a thing for during his Cambridge days.

As the novel moves between the here and now and back to 1998, when Adam was a Cambridge medic and acted in a production of Doctor Faustus, we discover the dreadful secrets he’s been harbouring for decades.

Leading the reader down disturbing paths, this edgy page-turner is driven by a feeling that none of the characters are to be trusted. Adam, for example — a goodly pillar of the community who hasn’t entirely overcome some of his school boy-ish perceptions of women — isn’t what he seems, or entirely likeable, which makes this novel all the more unexpected. Even thriller aficionados will find it nigh impossible to foresee the layers of secrets, lies and vicious twists.

Joanne Owen

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