Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017.
A clever first novel with a sinister setting in London where blocks of flats are being demolished. The juxtaposition of the bird watcher protagonist, Lily, and her people watching is a clever one as she views the people in the flats opposite. This device used ensures the atmosphere builds well and this is also helped with the intriguing chapter headings. The protagonist has a great imagination; names the people, gives them lives and witnesses things she should not. Strangely she is mistaken for a doctor and when called to a dead woman, whom she has recently visited, she takes on her own investigation. That’s when things get mysterious and the novel really changes gear. Lily gets into all sorts of trouble, someone is watching her, but who, and is she really watching at all and indeed seeing what she's seeing?
January 2017 Debut of the Month.
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'Ross Armstrong will feed your appetite for suspense.' - The Evening Standard She's watching you, but who's watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition.
A keen birdwatcher, she can't help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat. But can Lily really trust everything she sees? 'The Watcher is an intense, unsettling read...one that had me feeling like I needed to keep checking over my shoulder as I read.' - Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me
The Watcher features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Crime and Mystery, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Watcher is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Watcher was written by Ross Armstrong and published by HQ an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Watcher has 398 pages
