Every Step You Take

Inspector John Bright #6

by Maureen O'Brien

George was a success. From a dull suburban upbringing he became a partner with a firm of accountants in the City. He married young, a relationship doomed from the outset and he was soon a singleton again, content with his bachelor flat in town. But the 21st Century has intruded on his professional life, merging his firm with a brasher variety and George finds the solid parameters of his life crumbling. Retreating to his childhood home where his mother cares for his retarded brother with efficiency but no compassion, George allows the sight of a young girl in his street and working at the local supermarket to obsess him. An obsession which makes his ungainly demeanour even stranger. John Bright, recovering from the death of his lover and with time on his hand, observes the odd behaviour of his old schoolfriend with alarm, especially when the body of a young blonde is discovered with horrific head wounds in a park where George has been seen ...

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Author and actress, Maureen O'Brien began writing in 1989 with her debut novel, Close-Up on Death, after rising to fame as Vicki, in Doctor Who.

Reviews

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 4 out of 5]

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This is the last in the series of six crime novels about Inspector John Bright by Maureen O'Brien (who played Doctor Who companion Vicki more than fifty years ago). I was tremendously impressed by the fifth in the series, Unauthorised Departure, and if anything even more impressed by Every Step You Take in which the suburban setting of South Norwood is transformed into a psychological landscape of terror, obsession, confused identity and unspeakable thoughts. John Bright, on extended leave after the events of the previous book, gets sucked into the vortex as a schoolfriend of one of the damaged people at the heart of the narrative. It becomes obvious to us readers what actually happened pretty early on, and the narrative is then about how Bright and others work their way through the fog of contradictions to the truth. I found it both difficult to read and difficult to put down, if you see what I mean. I shall certainly look out for the rest of the series.

[BillReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of John Bright series. George entered adulthood a little naive and on his wedding night was uncertain, soon he and his wife split. Years later a successful accountant he see a girl that reminds him of his first love. Good story line twists and turns

[Angie Rhodes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, but not her best, I found it a little slow at first, George is one creepy character, who obsesses, over a young girl, who lives in the same street, as his mother,, then a body of a young girl is found,,,