Sleepwalker

by Andy Lang

Deborah Grant is a normal, healthy teenager. A girl standing at a crossroads in her young life, and she has a decision to make:
Allow her loving yet domineering father dictate her future, or.
Strike out on her own, follow her heart and dare to dream?
A long holiday is what she needs, and the Costa del Sol has beckoned. Fuengirola has welcomed the buxom blonde into its sun-drenched embrace.
But the Spanish resort reveals deeply buried desires, desires that she had never dared to dream lived inside her, desires that cause Deborah to rise from her bed in the early hours... and in a trance, she walks.
Disturbing, yet harmless she imagines...
Until the morning that she wakes to a nightmare discovery.
Suddenly, Debbie is terrified to close her eyes!


Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller that will make you wonder just how safe it is to fall asleep!

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Published June 12, 2016

About the author

Andy Lang was born in the north west of England in 1965 and worked in the early years as an engineer in an agricultural manufacturing company, moving from the United Kingdom in the late 1990's he subsequently spent many years in the entertainment industry in Cataluña, Northern Spain and property sales in Andalucia, Southern Spain, he is currently an Independent Financial Advisor in East Africa. Over the years he has travelled extensively and has lived in Spain, the west of France, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa.

He currently lives with his wife and their young sons in Uganda.

Reviews

[Yawatta Hosby · Rating 4 out of 5]

***I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review

I liked this book. Debbie was the main character. She was vacationing in Spain alone, but her dad often checked in on her by phone. Her sleepwalking turned out not to be so innocent like she had assumed when it’s discovered that a serial killer is trying to frame her for murders. When the killer was introduced, we started to get inside his head. That’s why it’s impressive that I still couldn’t figure out the clue.

The first five chapters were kind of boring to me. I didn’t care about Debbie finding freedom walking in the nude in the wee hours of the night. All I kept thinking was ‘it’s not safe for any lady to do that. Why isn’t she worried about being sexually assaulted?’ Debbie kept talking to herself out in public (well actually maybe screaming in excitement because exclamation points were used), but no one paid attention to her. That was hard to believe.

Chapter Six caught my attention and held it to the end. This chapter introduced a crime scene. I really enjoyed how the author had red herrings throughout the book. I guessed the wrong killer, so it was fun reading the end to see who it really was.

My favorite lines: 1) I was definitely alone. I was in the taxi alone, I was in here alone. 2) Often he joked that he could commit the perfect murder, untraceable. He wondered how many others in his position shared the same dark joke. 3) “Why?” he asked repeatedly, “How could you do this to me Debbie? Don’t you understand sweetheart, don’t you know what you’re doing to me?” The words escaped his lips as a tortured whisper, almost a plea.

I had a lot of questions while I was reading: Where was the dad? Why wouldn’t he come to Spain to be with his daughter if a killer was stalking her? Why was the officer Molina so chill dating Debbie out in public when the killer was clearly obsessed with her? The killer kept killing any guy who touched or flirted with Debbie. Why didn’t any of the Spanish officials or Molina have alarm bells ringing in their ears when Debbie and Molina started dating?

I really liked the very first nude beach scene. It was cool how Debbie was okay with her body to flaunt it. That was the appropriate time to be naked if she wanted to, not in the wee hours of the morning on a busy street.

I saw Debbie as a lost child with daddy issues. She was only eighteen. I didn’t like the detective Molina at all. He seemed incompetent, like he only wanted to date this little girl instead of actually solve a case. He was forty-five, and I couldn’t understand why he couldn’t find a woman his own age. I knew Debbie liked older men, but I cringed throughout their romantic scenes. I guess I’m a prude because that was too much of an age gap for me…

[Tony Parsons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fuengirola, Spain (Costa del Sol). Deborah “Debbie” Grant (18) was enjoying the country & meeting new PPL.
Capitán Manuel Raphael Molina (Guardia Civil), Lieutenant Teniente Alain Garcia (Guardia Civil), & Inspector-Jefe Tomas Pavia (MS; Forensic Science, Comisaría General de Policía Científica CGPC), were at the crime scene.
Sohail beach. A young man had been murdered.
Capitán Molina finally caught up with Debbie.
The victim was Paco Alvarez (Club Coco bouncer, Calle Cruz).

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I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review, only an honest one. All thoughts & opinions are entirely my own.

A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. A very well written mystery book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great mystery movie, or better yet a mini TV series. To be continued? It wasn’t as exciting as I was hoping. That said I will only rate it at 4/5 stars.

Thank you for the free Goodreads; Making Connections; PMO Publishing; Author; PDF book
Tony Parsons (Washburn)

[Megan Tee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Again, I was just plain confused. Nothing else, I just didn’t understand where this book was coming from or where was it about sleepwalking.

Well, if it was dreams and all the places Debbie visited, she strangely was a lot more lucid than she was before. But I feel that the writing was just too bland and forgettable, I barely remembered much about it at all.

Debbie lacked something which I could connect with her, it was probably a lot of drive. I mean it, I didn’t understand what was her reason to even exist here at all. That was something that I never felt from her. She just existed without any reason while the plot revolved around her, yet I knew so little about her, much less cared about her.

And you know me, when I don’t understand a character I probably won’t get the book either. The main character is the tying point when it comes to me, that they are the ones who care who make it important. If Debbie ends up being like an aimless zombie, I could guess that there isn’t a lot to write in the story at all.

And that was where this just failed me. I just didn’t understand what this existed to do at all.

[Anna Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book although the first few chapters confused for a while, I just didn't understand the relevance until later. Definitely worth a read if you like a plot that keeps you guessing who-dunnit until the very end.