Rabbit Hole: The new masterpiece from the Sunday Times number one bestseller

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Al thinks she’s ok some of the time but at other times she clearly struggles and you really feel for her. I could have done without that Deep Conversation with the café lady, as well as the cringe-inducing messaging between Alice and her former flatmate that added nothing to the narrative except a little padding (strings of emojis, anyone? The author did the groundwork, and the reader took one step and we fell into the dark and depraved mind of Alice Armitage. While already an eerie place, once patients start becoming murder victims, you’ll feel the dread alongside Alice as she’s trapped inside and races to catch the killer.

Overall, the book is an effective hybrid --- an absorbing character study doubling as a travelogue through a place that many of us find intimidating. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. The story was a bit tedious, and he hasn't mastered writing as a woman, Alice was much too masculine and unconvincing, and not very likable at all.A gripping standalone thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Tom Thorne novels. Bella’s dark and twisted new tale, ‘How to Kill Your Family’ features the murderous ‘heroine’ Grace, hell-bent on revenge. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. I thought things were being wrapped up in the run up to the final pages, and was caught off guard by an unexpected twist. I was excited, don't get me wrong, all those professional instincts starting to kick in, but I was .

The tension is palpable and you get a real sense of fear and foreboding and you have no trouble visualizing the intensity of being trapped not only inside your mind but the confines of the ward also. It's fresh and edgy but also addresses pressing social issues and is populated with characters ripe with idiosyncrasies and once again Billingham pushes the boundaries of crime writing shining a light into some of the darker corners of society. Told and thought in the first person by DCI Alice Armitage, working alone, she deep dig investigates the murder; I suppose that there's one thing I should also mention, Alice is also an in-patient in the Ward! Alice had worked for the “Met” --- the London metropolitan police --- and when one of her fellow patients is murdered, she takes up the case.

Same goes for Anorexic Girl -- talk about someone else's love handles, and off she goes on another 5-hour walking bender up and down the corridors! Alice (Al) Armitage is in an intermediate length ward in London for mental health and addiction treatment. Sometimes there is just a powerhouse name in the thriller genre but somehow their work has just evaded you for one reason or another.