5 stars from me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bravo Mr Barclay – Whistle is a brilliant read, everything I want from a book was here and so much more! Hardly surprising as another favourite of mine was a Barclay book too.
I have a bad habit when reading on kindle of not paying too much attention to the title/author (unless it is a book I’ve been hugely anticipating) and so after one particularly surprising event in the book I found myself going back to the home screen muttering ‘what the f— am I reading‘ swiftly followed by a chuckle and ‘of course‘ when I realised who the author was!
Impossible to explain but put me firmly in mind of a Stephen King style novel and I enjoyed every twisted horrible brilliant minute of it.
My thanks to the author, HQ Stories and NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: Evil has a one track mind…
Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her children’s books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.
But Annie’s year is about to get worse.
Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed in the grounds of their new house. While Annie is pleased to see Charlie happy, there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night – she’s sure she can hear a train in the middle of the night, although there isn’t an active line for miles. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood. But even stranger, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book…
Grief plays tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying…
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