Today's
featured novel is a
disturbing and dark thriller by Will Carver: Hinton Hollow Death Trip.
There is also the opportunity for you to win a digital copy of the book. Details on how to enter are at the foot of this post and the Giveaway is open internationally.
It’s a small story. A small town with small lives that you would never have heard about if none of this had happened.
Hinton Hollow. Population 5,120.
Little
Henry Wallace was eight years old and one hundred miles from home
before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a
label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept
away from Hinton Hollow.
Because something was coming.
Narrated by Evil itself, Hinton Hollow Death Trip recounts
five days in the history of this small rural town, when darkness paid a
visit and infected its residents. A visit that made them act in
unnatural ways. Prodding at their insecurities. Nudging at their secrets
and desires. Coaxing out the malevolence suppressed within them.
Showing their true selves.
Making them cheat.
Making them steal.
Making them kill.
Detective
Sergeant Pace had returned to his childhood home. To escape the things
he had done in the city. To go back to something simple. But he was not
alone. Evil had a plan.
My Thoughts
Highly stylized and with its own distinctive voice, you are hooked in from the start as Evil, the narrator, speaks to you. It is a chilling start. This thriller carries on from Nothing Important Happened Today and I would really recommend that you read that one too. Hinton Hollow Death Trip is the third Detective Sergeant Pace novel. Everything about the novel feels enclosed and small. We are taken to Hinton Hollow which is a small, fairly anonymous town. The inhabitants seem also just as ordinary on the surface. As Evil spreads through the town, they begin to act out of character.
As the murders begin to happen, you begin to hold your breath as to who the murderer might be and why. You find yourself querying whether Evil is innate within people or something they acquire or which manipulates their actions. The author also has something to say about innocence, especially amongst the young. There is plenty of suspense in this chilling tale which keeps you guessing. Be warned, the very end will stop you in its tracks.
In short:heart stopping and dark.
About the Author
Will Carver is the international bestselling author of the
January David series. He spent his early years in Germany, but returned to the
UK at age eleven, when his sporting career took off. He turned down a
professional rugby contract to study theatre and television at King Alfred’s,
Winchester, where he set up a successful theatre company. He currently runs his
own fitness and nutrition company, and lives in Reading with his two children.
Good Samaritans was book of the year in Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday
Express, and hit number one on the ebook charts.
You can read my review of Good Samaritans here and Nothing Important Happened Today here.
Thanks to Will Carver, Karen Sullivan and Anne Cater of Orenda Books for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.
Check out the rest of the tour!
Giveaway (International)
To win an e- copy of Hinton Hollow Death Trip, just Follow and Retweet the pinned tweet at @bookslifethings and good luck!
Closing date is July 26th 2020 and there is one winner.
*Terms and Conditions – International. The winner will be selected at
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and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then I reserve the right
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third parties, with the exception of the winners’ information. This will passed
to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize. I am not
responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.
Thanks for the blog tour support Pam xx
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