The Creeper is a gloomy, dark toned contemporary British crime suspense novel with an amazing plot. However, I must admit I still prefer Mo Hayder in this genre. In my opinion the writing manners of Tania Carver are a tad too light – eloquent, exquisite language is my weakness -, yet the subject is grim enough to make me feel good about the book.
The setting of The Creepers is Colchester. Suzanne , a cheerful single girl of twenty-six, after having a nice evening with a good book and some sweets, has a disturbing nightmare: she feels stalked in her dream and she cannot move a muscle in her body to flee. A hulky figure with burning eyes watches her and talks to her (his slurring voice sounds faraway and familiar), but she cannot understand his words. At last he pulls up her T-shirt… In the morning Suzanne finds a polaroid picture in her window – a photo of her exposed intimate parts.
The very same day a female is found on a boat, brutally dismembered and killed; the corpse was damaged so badly that it is not recognisable. It turns out that more females went missing – all of them had something in common… Suzanne is one of them, she also disappeared.
Marina Esposito and DE Phil Brennan, already known from the previous book, Tania Carver’s The Surrogate, work on the case. Their time is running out, as, unbeknownst to them, the perpetrator sealed Suzanne in a coffin…
Tania Carver is the pseudonym of a British married couple Linda and Martyn Waites.
Description of The Creeper:
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night. And underneath the words: 'I'm watching over you'. Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just beginning. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan of the Major Incident Squad has a killer to hunt. A killer who stalks young women, insinuates himself into their lives, and ultimately tortures and murders them in the most shocking way possible. But the more Phil investigates, the more he delves into the twisted psychology of his quarry, Phil realises that it isn't just a serial killer he's hunting but something ? or someone ? infinitely more calculating and horrific. And much closer to home than he realised ...
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