"The Angel of Cranner's Ford does her fixing by the shadow of moonlight in this star of an original eerie suspense thriller. "
Phobia-ridden and occasionally obsessive Mercy Lake walks in the shadows, once a snoop always a snoop. A socially awkward twenty-something with a debilitating fear of sunlight, she watches people who have a problem they can't seem to fix. She collects lives and intervenes in the way others collect Pokemon cards, perfume bottles or parking fines.
With her mismatched eyes, her home cut hair, and barricaded home she is one of the Night People. Watching with her binoculars so close she can track heart rates from an artery in their neck.
One by one we meet her people, Lovesick Linda, Home Alone Jacob, Raj the Reborn, and Edward Gropey Hands through her Celestrons as she tries to fix them like she tries to fix all broken things. Once she meets Louis and realises that her small acts of kindness are far less effective than fear...the thriller escalates at break-neck speed. Sam Lloyd is fast becoming one of my go-to reads for a creepy, page-turning thriller. Keep an eye out for The People Watcher, you won't be able to put it down.
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'One thing I've learned, these last few weeks, is that small acts of kindness are far less effective than fear...'
Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People.
She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, they don't even know she exists.
Then Mercy meets Louis. He believes some of these people deserve punishment, not help. Joining up with him to dispense a little harmless justice feels good - at first. But when people start getting hurt, Mercy must decide if the ends can ever justify their increasingly violent means.
And soon, their interventions draw the attention of the very person Mercy embraced her nocturnal existence to evade. Someone who will go to extreme lengths to make her pay for knowing their secret . . .
The answer to 'What if Eleanor Oliphant found herself in a Stephen King novel?', The People Watcher is a shiver-inducing, heart-pounding suspense that will keep you up into the early hours.
The People Watcher features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Psychological thriller, Fiction, Star Books, Recommendations
The People Watcher is available in Paperback, Hardback
The People Watcher was written by Sam Lloyd and published by Penguin (Transworld) an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
The People Watcher has 384 pages
£8.09
