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The House on Rectory Lane - Stuart James



Description

How much do you trust your neighbours?

Jake and Kate live in London but after an altercation with a stranger who threatens Jake with a knife, they take their son and move to a house in the woods.
It’s their dream home, or so they think until people in the village warn them they shouldn’t have come.
Their neighbours are strange and when Kate sees a face at the window, the family realise they might be in danger.
When they find a tape hidden in the loft of the house, a video recording of the previous family who once lived there, it chills them to the bone.
They soon realise that the family living there before them have disappeared and they too could now be next.
What is the mystery surrounding the house on Rectory Lane?
Jake and Kate are about to find out…

Review

I'm going to start with the ending first and say "wow" just "wow" - I never saw it coming and it just blew me away. It is worth reading this book for the last line alone!

So, before the end what happens? Well Jake and Kate move with their son Sean to a house in the countryside from their fast paced London life. Everything seems idyllic until a few people warn them that they should leave and go back to where they came from. Do these people just not like incomers? Or is it something more sinister?

After a few seemingly unconnected events, which actually made me think it was getting a little incredulous, the book takes a very scary turn. The writing had me on the edge of my seat and I worried I would have a nightmare, but I couldn't keep my eyes open to finish the book. 

There is some very descriptive writing which made me wince and turn away from the book in horror. A couple of scenes where the writer plays with reader and I was racing ahead to see which way the action was going to go. Then as I said previously came that ending and I can't stop thinking about the whole book now. Just what is the mystery surrounding the house on Rectory lane?

I'm giving this book five out of five stars. My thanks to Bloodhound Books for an ARC to review.  

Comments

  1. Jane Willis1 May 2020 at 06:55

    I've just read this too and loved it - and I second your WOW. There were a couple of twists that actually made me jump, and yes, the ending was one of them. A book that really deserves the description "Thriller".

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