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Room 15
If you enter there is NO TURNING BACK
Ross Blackleigh is on trial for four crimes which he insists he didn't commit. A detective inspector and a thoughtful self-reflective man, he goes against his counsel's advice and takes the stand in court.
This is his story.
Ross found himself wandering the streets one night, bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half. But before he could make sense of it, he was summoned to a crime scene where a nurse had been brutally murdered.
His amnesia unnerved him and, fearing the worst, Ross allowed himself to be taken to hospital, only to be viciously attacked by a stranger with a knife.
Suspecting that the attack was connected with the nurse's murder and that his own police colleagues were behind it, Ross set out on two parallel investigations: one into the killing and the other into his own mind.
But when he digs into his own psyche, he is scared by what he finds...
Is Ross being set up or is something far more disturbing behind the killings?
Ross Blackleigh is on trial for four crimes which he insists he didn't commit. A detective inspector and a thoughtful self-reflective man, he goes against his counsel's advice and takes the stand in court.
This is his story.
Ross found himself wandering the streets one night, bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half. But before he could make sense of it, he was summoned to a crime scene where a nurse had been brutally murdered.
His amnesia unnerved him and, fearing the worst, Ross allowed himself to be taken to hospital, only to be viciously attacked by a stranger with a knife.
Suspecting that the attack was connected with the nurse's murder and that his own police colleagues were behind it, Ross set out on two parallel investigations: one into the killing and the other into his own mind.
But when he digs into his own psyche, he is scared by what he finds...
Is Ross being set up or is something far more disturbing behind the killings?
358 pages, Paperback
Published July 18, 2020
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About the author
Charles Harris
11 books27 followersCharles Harris is a bestselling, award-nominated author and award-winning writer-director.
His latest novel, the comedy crime Play Me! has won a place as a finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025.
Harris likes to give his novels a political edge and to go undercover to research them. For Play Me! he worked with SAS veterans, journalists researching high-profile assassinations and charity workers dealing with international corruption. He goes to great lengths to get the right details, to the point of falling off a mountain in the Caribbean.
For The Breaking of Liam Glass, a gripping satirical tale of tabloid scoops and betrayal, he smuggled himself into tabloid newsrooms and local government offices. His debut novel, it was an Amazon bestseller and shortlisted for Wishing Shelf and Eyelands International awards.
For his second novel, the psychological thriller Room Fifteen, he worked with police and talked his way into a police cell. It also became an Amazon genre bestseller.
He has won international TV and film awards for his darkly satirical documentaries, dramatised documentaries and his debut feature movies, the black comedy Paradise Grove. He has had short stories nominated for awards and his non-fiction work includes the bestselling Teach Yourself: Complete Screenwriting Course (John Murray) and Jaws in Space (Creative Essentials). Both are recommended reading on MA screenwriting courses.
He has also trained extensively in hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which he uses to help writers, directors, actors and other artists, is a board member of the Society of Authors - and is a sixth Dan in Aikido.
He has a wife lives with him in North London and two sons who don't.
His latest novel, the comedy crime Play Me! has won a place as a finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025.
Harris likes to give his novels a political edge and to go undercover to research them. For Play Me! he worked with SAS veterans, journalists researching high-profile assassinations and charity workers dealing with international corruption. He goes to great lengths to get the right details, to the point of falling off a mountain in the Caribbean.
For The Breaking of Liam Glass, a gripping satirical tale of tabloid scoops and betrayal, he smuggled himself into tabloid newsrooms and local government offices. His debut novel, it was an Amazon bestseller and shortlisted for Wishing Shelf and Eyelands International awards.
For his second novel, the psychological thriller Room Fifteen, he worked with police and talked his way into a police cell. It also became an Amazon genre bestseller.
He has won international TV and film awards for his darkly satirical documentaries, dramatised documentaries and his debut feature movies, the black comedy Paradise Grove. He has had short stories nominated for awards and his non-fiction work includes the bestselling Teach Yourself: Complete Screenwriting Course (John Murray) and Jaws in Space (Creative Essentials). Both are recommended reading on MA screenwriting courses.
He has also trained extensively in hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which he uses to help writers, directors, actors and other artists, is a board member of the Society of Authors - and is a sixth Dan in Aikido.
He has a wife lives with him in North London and two sons who don't.
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July 27, 2020
ROOM 15 is a gripping Psychological Mystery Thriller by Charles Harris.
DI Blackleigh is on trial charged with four counts of murder, which he insists he didn’t commit. His lawyer, Stone, advises him not to speak, but Ross goes against his counsel’s advice and takes the stand. And now his life is in the hands of a jury, to find him not guilty by reasonable doubt. He tries to read the jury. His wife, Laura was in the crowd.
This is Ross’s story.
Ross finds himself standing in the middle of the street at night staring up at the falling snow. He was bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half. Even though it was snowing…he thought it was August!
But before he could make sense of it, he was summoned to a crime scene, where a nurse, Amy Matthews, had been brutally murdered. He arrives with his own police colleague, at the Hotel-Room 15, where the victim had been shot multiple times. But Ross being weak from his injuries, falls over in the crime scene, contaminating the area. He now had become the prime suspect in the murder.
The amnesia shook him and fearing the worst, he allowed himself to be taken to hospital where that night he was attacked by a stranger with a knife.
Now Ross has two battles to fight…the murder investigation and his own mind.
Killer…Victim…Corruption…No one to trust! Is Ross being set up or is something far more disturbing behind the killings?
I loved following Ross’s story, and didn’t see where it was going to lead. This crime novel was well written with detailed plot and non-stop action at every turn. I was glued right to the last page and unpredictable ending.
Many thanks to the author and Bloodhound Books for my digital copy.
DI Blackleigh is on trial charged with four counts of murder, which he insists he didn’t commit. His lawyer, Stone, advises him not to speak, but Ross goes against his counsel’s advice and takes the stand. And now his life is in the hands of a jury, to find him not guilty by reasonable doubt. He tries to read the jury. His wife, Laura was in the crowd.
This is Ross’s story.
Ross finds himself standing in the middle of the street at night staring up at the falling snow. He was bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half. Even though it was snowing…he thought it was August!
But before he could make sense of it, he was summoned to a crime scene, where a nurse, Amy Matthews, had been brutally murdered. He arrives with his own police colleague, at the Hotel-Room 15, where the victim had been shot multiple times. But Ross being weak from his injuries, falls over in the crime scene, contaminating the area. He now had become the prime suspect in the murder.
The amnesia shook him and fearing the worst, he allowed himself to be taken to hospital where that night he was attacked by a stranger with a knife.
Now Ross has two battles to fight…the murder investigation and his own mind.
Killer…Victim…Corruption…No one to trust! Is Ross being set up or is something far more disturbing behind the killings?
I loved following Ross’s story, and didn’t see where it was going to lead. This crime novel was well written with detailed plot and non-stop action at every turn. I was glued right to the last page and unpredictable ending.
Many thanks to the author and Bloodhound Books for my digital copy.
July 27, 2020
DI Ross Blackleigh is standing in the middle of the street... bleeding from his head ...blood covering his hands. It's snowing and he finds that amazing since in his head it's August. Somehow he has lost all memory of the past 18 months.
Before he can figure out what has happened, he is summoned to the scent of a murder. The victim is a nurse .. and the scene is brutal.
Prime suspect? DI Blackleigh
How do you prove you did not commit any murders if you don't remember whether you did or not? Blackleigh not only has to investigate the murder, but then he also has to investigate his own memory loss.
Is he a killer ..... or a victim that's being set up?
Well written, this one full of action, plenty of twists and turns leading to an unexpected conclusion. The characters are skillfully drawn amid the intricate plot.
Many thanks to the author / Bloodhound Books for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
July 24, 2020
This was an unusual read. Very well written from a different perspective - that of a DI on the run.
Ross Blackleigh is suffering from amnesia. He has lost 18 moths of his life. One minute he was celebrating his latest promotion in the summer with his wife Laura, recalling the smash of a wine glass, and the next he is outside as the snow falls and about to enter a murder scene.
The book is tense, terrifying and is interspersed with flashbacks of lost memory, the present, where the DI is on trial, and the year leading up to the trial when all the events played out.
At times I was a bit lost and at times I found it too full of subterfuge and paranoia for me to totally love the read. I felt that due to personal tastes this plot was a bit too action packed for me and I felt quite unnerved by the whole premise of bent policemen out to trap the DI.
The action really does take place over little more than a 24 hour period and the unease DI Blackleigh feels emanates from the pages and had me right on the edge of my seat, desperate to turn the pages to find out what would happen next.
How anyone can go for over 24 hours without sleep, barely eating and drinking, trying to act on information to uncover the real killer when you have sustained terrible injuries and can't remember your police colleagues, is beyond me. It adds to the sense of desperation and time running out which is great for keeping a reader gripped, but for me personally was a bit too menacing for me to truly engage with the characters. I just found them very macho, tough, and although there is a bit of a reprieve with touches of a marriage gone wrong between Laura and Ross, so full of testosterone that I couldn't fully identify with any one character.
I would imagine many people will love the book, as it has dark undertones, not only with the rogue investigation DI Blackleigh is carrying out, but also with the murky and distinctly bullying nature of Ross's relationship with his father and ex-policeman Paul.
A brilliant ending I have to say hence the 4 stars.
Ross Blackleigh is suffering from amnesia. He has lost 18 moths of his life. One minute he was celebrating his latest promotion in the summer with his wife Laura, recalling the smash of a wine glass, and the next he is outside as the snow falls and about to enter a murder scene.
The book is tense, terrifying and is interspersed with flashbacks of lost memory, the present, where the DI is on trial, and the year leading up to the trial when all the events played out.
At times I was a bit lost and at times I found it too full of subterfuge and paranoia for me to totally love the read. I felt that due to personal tastes this plot was a bit too action packed for me and I felt quite unnerved by the whole premise of bent policemen out to trap the DI.
The action really does take place over little more than a 24 hour period and the unease DI Blackleigh feels emanates from the pages and had me right on the edge of my seat, desperate to turn the pages to find out what would happen next.
How anyone can go for over 24 hours without sleep, barely eating and drinking, trying to act on information to uncover the real killer when you have sustained terrible injuries and can't remember your police colleagues, is beyond me. It adds to the sense of desperation and time running out which is great for keeping a reader gripped, but for me personally was a bit too menacing for me to truly engage with the characters. I just found them very macho, tough, and although there is a bit of a reprieve with touches of a marriage gone wrong between Laura and Ross, so full of testosterone that I couldn't fully identify with any one character.
I would imagine many people will love the book, as it has dark undertones, not only with the rogue investigation DI Blackleigh is carrying out, but also with the murky and distinctly bullying nature of Ross's relationship with his father and ex-policeman Paul.
A brilliant ending I have to say hence the 4 stars.
July 26, 2020
The book begins with DI Ross Blackleigh standing up in court, against the better judgement of his defence barrister, and recounting the events of just over 24 hours that took place a year ago. A highly respected and clean as a whistle police officer, he is on trial accused of four murders, one attempted murder and GBH. The story then switches back to Ross' account of that time in the order that events unfolded. He finds himself injured and bleeding in a strange road at night and can't work out why it is snowing when he thinks it's August. He is soon picked up by a patrol car and taken, as duty inspector, to a crime scene, where he starts to realise he has lost a year and a half of his memory. Training kicks in as he starts to investigate the murder of the young woman but his injuries overcome him and he is taken to hospital to be checked over. He doesn't recognise most of his colleagues and, not knowing what has happened and who he can trust, he doesn't dare tell anyone about the amnesia for fear he will be taken off the case and placed in more danger. Something that may well be a real possibility when he is viciously attacked by a young foreign man before he has even left hospital. And so the whole nightmare starts for Ross. Nothing is familiar to him, not even his house, and his wife is acting strangely towards him. As he lurches from one crime scene to another, aided by the one person he knows he can rely on, he desperately tries to jog his failing memory and is told a lot of things about himself that he doesn't like. He starts to wonder if he even knows himself now, all whilst running round in the snow, trying to solve the murder and stay alive. I did find the story a bit confusing and implausible in places, and I was as bewildered as Ross at times! Certainly the author brought across very well Ross' feelings of paranoia and panic, and displays how much one person can tackle when fuelled by pure adrenaline, but it was slightly uncomfortable watching as his mind collapsed and wondering about the possible causes for this. There were several big twists near the end as the final days of the trial and later events were revealed which both made sense and also brought about a quite original conclusion. The first book in a long time where I am genuinely unsure what I thought but which was certainly an interesting read. 3.5*
July 27, 2020
DI Ross Blackleigh is standing in the middle of the street... bleeding from his head ...blood covering his hands. It's snowing and he finds that amazing since in his head it's August. Somehow he has lost all memory of the past 18 months.
Before he can figure out what has happened, he is summoned to the scent of a murder. The victim is a nurse .. and the scene is brutal.
Prime suspect? DI Blackleigh
How do you prove you did not commit any murders if you don't remember whether you did or not? Blackleigh not only has to investigate the murder, but then he also has to investigate his own memory loss.
Is he a killer ..... or a victim that's being set up?
Well written, this one full of action, plenty of twists and turns leading to an unexpected conclusion. The characters are skillfully drawn amid the intricate plot.
Many thanks to the author / Bloodhound Books for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
July 23, 2020
Definitely took me some time to get in to. But stick with it as it's so worth it. 4 stars for a great book
March 19, 2021
DI Ross Blackleigh finds himself wandering the streets with a head wound and he is very surprised to see it is snowing in August. He is even more surprised to find that it is actually 18 months later in time than he can last remember and his colleagues and his wife give him a picture of a completely different man. Blackleigh then becomes involved in a murder case when a nurse is found dead in a seedy hotel room, and as he investigates the case whilst keeping his amnesia under wraps, he finds that the evidence is leading close to home.
This was a crime thriller with a difference. Told from Blackleigh's POV in the present, interspersed with flashbacks to his childhood, the reader starts to see that nothing is at it seems at first. There are some very dark moments in the book, and the ending is suitably twisted. It did take a while to get going and get into, so I am rating this 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
This was a crime thriller with a difference. Told from Blackleigh's POV in the present, interspersed with flashbacks to his childhood, the reader starts to see that nothing is at it seems at first. There are some very dark moments in the book, and the ending is suitably twisted. It did take a while to get going and get into, so I am rating this 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
August 20, 2020
I loved this story, Ross's character was so intriguing and dark, made me want to discover what happened to him. I questioned every character and changed my mind so many times, but was not prepared for the final twist. Brilliant read.
August 14, 2020
Wow this was not what I was expecting, a well written, great storyline that was an intricate web of uncertainties, confusion and trust. Our leading man Ross Is in a cat and mouse game at its best but with himself. Ross is battling with amnesia and seems to have lost the last 18 months of his life. I won’t go too much in to the storyline as that is what the blurb is for but I will say a very interesting read with a couple of outcomes I was not expecting, especially Beck.
August 6, 2020
A great example of the unreliable narrator!
I loved it. Harris used the unreliable narrator to perfection to create tension and uncertainty as to what is really going on in DI Blackleigh's world.
I loved it. Harris used the unreliable narrator to perfection to create tension and uncertainty as to what is really going on in DI Blackleigh's world.
July 30, 2020
When DI Ross Blackleigh finds himself wondering through the snow covered streets wearing clothes he doesn’t recognize, bloodied and battered with no recollection as to how he got there he knows something is seriously wrong. To make matters worse he’s picked up and brought to a crime scene to investigate the murder of a young nurse which feels eerily familiar. Can he gain back his memory in time to solve the murder or are some things just better off left undiscovered?
This story had me immediately hooked. DI Blackleigh’s character was intense and possessed in his attempt to uncover the truth. It’s incredibly well written and leaves you questioning everyone’s loyalty.
This story had me immediately hooked. DI Blackleigh’s character was intense and possessed in his attempt to uncover the truth. It’s incredibly well written and leaves you questioning everyone’s loyalty.
August 5, 2020
Great read
One of those books I couldn't put down. I stayed up way too late at night, getting all the chapters I could. Kept me guessing until the very end.
One of those books I couldn't put down. I stayed up way too late at night, getting all the chapters I could. Kept me guessing until the very end.
July 27, 2020
I enjoyed this thriller-suspense story. This is my first book by this author and I look forward in reading more from them. This is a well written story that has characters that are well developed. They made the story easy for me to read and also engaging. The details of the story made the story feel real. This is a story about a man on trial that he may or may not have done. What happens next you will have to read to find out. I highly recommend this book. I don't regret picking it up and neither will you.
July 27, 2020
This is not your typical murder story. It is about the lead detective and how he goes about his job trying to solve a crime and stop another one. But there is a huge twist that I totally missed in it until the end. Excellent story! I would like to thank Bloodhound Books for the ARC of this book that I was honored to review.
July 27, 2020
Great book!
Wow! What a book. I read this book in one day! I could not out it down. New Scotland Yard inspector is accused of four murders. But he has amnesia for the previous year and a half. The book follows his murder trial. There is an amazing twist in the end. Read it!
Wow! What a book. I read this book in one day! I could not out it down. New Scotland Yard inspector is accused of four murders. But he has amnesia for the previous year and a half. The book follows his murder trial. There is an amazing twist in the end. Read it!
July 22, 2020
It took me a while to get into this book but I am so glad I carries on with it, I even finished it at 3am on a work night, despite trying to save the last hour. It was well written and with really good descriptions of characters, some I loved and some I hated but I was shocked by the ending and what happened to Ross in the 18 months since he got amnesia and trying to solve murders. Really good read.
July 23, 2020
A gripping read.
This took me a while to get into, but its definitely one of those books that you will be glad you stuck with.
With clever writing, and plenty of twists and turns it will keep you gripped to the end.
This took me a while to get into, but its definitely one of those books that you will be glad you stuck with.
With clever writing, and plenty of twists and turns it will keep you gripped to the end.
July 17, 2020
We all have things in our lives we would rather forget, but how would you react if an entire eighteen month period was simply missing?
Ross Blackleigh is first aware of the snow. Strange that it is snowing for the last thing he remembers before now it was summer. Next, he is aware of being wounded.
He is quickly embroiled in a murder case where he chases his past as well as the murderer. Nothing is as it seems in this gripping thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page.
I was gifted a copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Ross Blackleigh is first aware of the snow. Strange that it is snowing for the last thing he remembers before now it was summer. Next, he is aware of being wounded.
He is quickly embroiled in a murder case where he chases his past as well as the murderer. Nothing is as it seems in this gripping thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page.
I was gifted a copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
September 28, 2021
This ingenious and compelling thriller by Charles Harris revolves around Ross Blackleigh, a detective inspector who has mysteriously lost his memory of the previous 18 months following some kind of altercation that leaves him with a head injury. Now on trial for murder, Blackleigh frantically attempts to piece together his own recent past while also trying to solve a murder mystery for which he now stands accused.
This is a fast-paced and gripping tale that is very deftly and eloquently penned. Harris gives us enough convincing detail when outlining his chief players without over-egging the pudding.
Difficult to predict, the narrative provides plenty of twists and turns, and the concluding pages are wonderfully dark.
‘Room 15’ is a very satisfying tour de force of a thriller with a very chilling and pitch-perfect crescendo of a last page. I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the ride.
Alex Pearl is author of ‘Sleeping with the Blackbirds and ‘The Chair Man’
This is a fast-paced and gripping tale that is very deftly and eloquently penned. Harris gives us enough convincing detail when outlining his chief players without over-egging the pudding.
Difficult to predict, the narrative provides plenty of twists and turns, and the concluding pages are wonderfully dark.
‘Room 15’ is a very satisfying tour de force of a thriller with a very chilling and pitch-perfect crescendo of a last page. I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the ride.
Alex Pearl is author of ‘Sleeping with the Blackbirds and ‘The Chair Man’
July 27, 2020
Overall 3.5*
This book is a good read in parts and great in others, although not really a bedtime read as you need to be alert to take it all in! The description of DI Blackleigh's amnesia and paranoia is well written however the constant flashbacks for me detracted from the overall story.
Thanks to Bloodhound Books for the ARC to review
This book is a good read in parts and great in others, although not really a bedtime read as you need to be alert to take it all in! The description of DI Blackleigh's amnesia and paranoia is well written however the constant flashbacks for me detracted from the overall story.
Thanks to Bloodhound Books for the ARC to review
January 13, 2026
A man is standing in the middle of the road, in the dark, in the snow.
He has no idea how he got there. He has no idea what he's doing or where he's going.
He has no idea who he is.
In his pocket he finds a warrant card. The card gives his name as Ross Blackleigh. Apparently he's a Detective Inspector.
This is a wonderful book. It's very unusual, and to my mind, superbly accomplished. It's got 56 chapters, each of which ends perfectly to spring you straight into where you want to be next.
It's a murder mystery: a London police procedural, well researched, satisfyingly plausible; but obviously it's a psychological thriller too. More than that, it's a responsible sort of thriller with a deep interest in modern urban ethics and morality. It's neither lurid nor depressing. It's exactly as violent and nasty as its metropolitan location, and not a jot more.
What it is, then, is noir: noir in the way Raymond Chandler is noir. Charles Harris is enquiring how a man who probably is himself mean, actually, even if he didn't intend to be, can struggle down streets that are indifferent at best and at worst (which all of them are, much of the time) hostile. Toxic. Deadly.
I believe I read it because Charles Palliser recommended it. He was absolutely right to do so. I don't know why it and its author aren't so famous and popular that they wouldn't need Charles's recommendation, or mine either. Perhaps one day they will be.
He has no idea how he got there. He has no idea what he's doing or where he's going.
He has no idea who he is.
In his pocket he finds a warrant card. The card gives his name as Ross Blackleigh. Apparently he's a Detective Inspector.
This is a wonderful book. It's very unusual, and to my mind, superbly accomplished. It's got 56 chapters, each of which ends perfectly to spring you straight into where you want to be next.
It's a murder mystery: a London police procedural, well researched, satisfyingly plausible; but obviously it's a psychological thriller too. More than that, it's a responsible sort of thriller with a deep interest in modern urban ethics and morality. It's neither lurid nor depressing. It's exactly as violent and nasty as its metropolitan location, and not a jot more.
What it is, then, is noir: noir in the way Raymond Chandler is noir. Charles Harris is enquiring how a man who probably is himself mean, actually, even if he didn't intend to be, can struggle down streets that are indifferent at best and at worst (which all of them are, much of the time) hostile. Toxic. Deadly.
I believe I read it because Charles Palliser recommended it. He was absolutely right to do so. I don't know why it and its author aren't so famous and popular that they wouldn't need Charles's recommendation, or mine either. Perhaps one day they will be.
April 1, 2024
An unputdownable thriller: This is a very clever and gripping novel in which the central character comes to realise he is suffering from amnesia and has lost all knowledge of the last eighteen months. That might sound like well-trodden territory, but Harris uses the situation in a brilliant way. The man is a police-officer and he is facing a murder charge so he desperately needs to discover what really happened while he is still free. Especially when it becomes clear that although he does not know the truth about the murder, other people do and have a powerful motive for making sure he doesn’t live long enough to reveal it. So there’s an exciting race between the inner journey into his own mysterious past that the protagonist has to make and the mounting danger from the outside world. And all the while, as the tension mounts, the reader wonders if the man’s belief in his innocence is going to be justified. Unputdownable.
February 9, 2021
Where do I start...this was so not what I was expecting, it certainly wasn't your run of the mill thriller & the ending didn't even cross my mind that this could be happening. Slow burning building to a totally unpredictable ending. I'll admit this took me a while to get invested into the story, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. Fantastic lead character, with a well written, original storyline. Suspenseful, exciting & definitely one of those books you'll be glad you stuck with!
Waking up battered & bleeding on the streets, the past 18 months of his life non existent, DI Ross Blackleigh finds himself in court on trial for 4 counts of murder which he says he didn't commit. Will his memory return or is there something more sinister afoot? 😱
𝗜 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 4 ⭐ 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
Waking up battered & bleeding on the streets, the past 18 months of his life non existent, DI Ross Blackleigh finds himself in court on trial for 4 counts of murder which he says he didn't commit. Will his memory return or is there something more sinister afoot? 😱
𝗜 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 4 ⭐ 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
September 30, 2020
A very clever, well-written story with a myriad of twists, corrupt police, innocent victims, and gangs intent on revenge!
It's an interesting look into a man's downward spiral into paranoia and confusion, as everything he knows collapses and his life is no longer his own. The action starts right from the beginning, when the protagonist, DI Blackleigh, comes to, suffering from amnesia. Having lost the last 18 months of his life, he tries to put the pieces back together, while holding onto his sanity.
The story keeps you gripped as more of the past is revealed, and the ending blew me away. If you like dark, gritty thrillers, this is the perfect book! Highly recommend.
It's an interesting look into a man's downward spiral into paranoia and confusion, as everything he knows collapses and his life is no longer his own. The action starts right from the beginning, when the protagonist, DI Blackleigh, comes to, suffering from amnesia. Having lost the last 18 months of his life, he tries to put the pieces back together, while holding onto his sanity.
The story keeps you gripped as more of the past is revealed, and the ending blew me away. If you like dark, gritty thrillers, this is the perfect book! Highly recommend.
November 7, 2022
This is a gripping psychological thriller. You’re straight into the story in the first chapter, and there are so many twists and turns, you have to keep reading! Ross, the main character, is a policeman, but is he a murderer as well? He suffers from amnesia and is therefore on two missions: find the murderer and find his mind. Will the two come together?
I loved the characters and the sense of bewilderment Ross feels as he staggers through life, looking for answers. The book takes you to dark corners and a murky underworld, where Ross isn’t sure who he can trust.
Brilliantly written, and I’m now looking for more books by this wonderful author.
I loved the characters and the sense of bewilderment Ross feels as he staggers through life, looking for answers. The book takes you to dark corners and a murky underworld, where Ross isn’t sure who he can trust.
Brilliantly written, and I’m now looking for more books by this wonderful author.
August 21, 2020
I dont know what i think of this - I love the premise the novel opens with and I really wanted it to embrace that and go truly weird I think, which it doesn't do. So I found that although I enjoyed the rest of the novel I felt slightly let down, this is just me though and its a well written intriguing novel that i did enjoy. The plot is great and although the twist is signalled fairly early on it still delivers a good impact when you're hit with it towards the end.
December 30, 2021
Keep Guessing
The story telling was a bit confusing... but I think it was meant to be that way. I think there is so much of the brain we don't understand and this story touches on that area.
The story telling was a bit confusing... but I think it was meant to be that way. I think there is so much of the brain we don't understand and this story touches on that area.
March 10, 2022
Kind of hard to follow at parts and understand.
The end didn't really shock me but I didn't feel the connection to the title either. It didn't feel like the room had anything to do with the story so that was a bit misleading.
The end didn't really shock me but I didn't feel the connection to the title either. It didn't feel like the room had anything to do with the story so that was a bit misleading.
September 4, 2020
Couldn't stop reading
I wanted so bad to read the end before I finished. I didn't but oh my goodness. This will be a book I will think about for a long time.
I wanted so bad to read the end before I finished. I didn't but oh my goodness. This will be a book I will think about for a long time.
September 13, 2020
Finally a psychological thriller with no holes!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Well written and great ending. I will now look for other books by this author.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Well written and great ending. I will now look for other books by this author.
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