HOW well do you know your neighbours? Would you notice if you didn’t see them for a while – or be unaware that anything was amiss until a bad smell began to linger?
Those are the questions that this pacy new thriller, in which a policewoman discovers that dozens of people aren’t found until months after death, aims to answer.
Is there something sinister going on?
In this – her third thriller in as many years – Elizabeth Haynes plays with society’s mistrust of the loner.
Her well-drawn central characters explore the mechanics of loneliness and despair, while the action – and there’s enough of that – taps into the deep-seated fear of dying alone.
From the gruesome opening gambit to the thrilling denouement, it’s very hard to leave alone.
7/10
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