Book Review: We Can See You by Simon Kernick

We Can See You by Simon Kernick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars





Brook Connor has what many people would call a perfect life,she has a successful career as a best selling author and life coach. A handsome loving husband,gorgeous five year old daughter and a beautiful home.

But the most perfect life can shatter in seconds.

When Brook returns home late one night after a meeting with a client,she discovers a empty house and no sign of her daughter or her daughter's nanny. In the kitchen she discovers a note informing her that her daughter has been kidnapped. She is to wait for further instructions and must not inform the police. If she has any doubts about how serious the kidnappers are then she should take a look at the gift that they have left for her in the cutlery drawer. She must obey their instructions at all times,if she doesn't,they will know because they have chillingly warned her.....We Can See You

Within hours Brook is on the run,desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the police,having no idea who she can trust but having only one thought on her mind.

She will stop at nothing to get her daughter back.

Even murder...

Told in chapters that alternate between Brook and Detectives Tyrone Giant and Jenna King,We Can See You is exactly what readers have come to expect when you curl up in your comfy chair and dive into a book written by Simon Kernick.A fast paced,roller coaster ride that holds you in a vice like grip from the very first page. His words are so enthralling and mesmerising that you sometimes forget to breath as the twists and turns unfold before your eyes. I absolutely adore Simon's stand alone thrillers in which he puts a normal,everyday person through hell. Pitting them against some very nasty villains and finding themselves in a number of life threatening,breath taking situations. We Can See You is no exception as we follow his heroine Brook's desperate quest to find out who has kidnapped her daughter and why. Brook was a feisty,likeable character who wasn't afraid to speak her mind and confront people when she needed answers from them. She was a strong willed mumma bear who was prepared to do everything in her power to get her beloved daughter back. As the story unfolded,she encountered a number of vivid,realistic characters,some likeable,some not so likeable. But who hated Brook so much that they were prepared to go to such extreme lengths to destroy her life? And what were the reasons behind their actions?

I don't usually beg for things but I was prepared to really grovel for this book and was overjoyed when I was approved by the publishers. We Can See You is a gripping,adrenaline ride that had me hooked in and frantically turning the pages from the first page right through the shocking revelations in the final confrontation between Brook and her tormentor. I absolutely love Simon Kernick`s books and cannot for the life of me understand why they haven't been adapted for tv or films yet. Definitely worth far more than five stars. Very very highly recommended.

                                                                AUTHOR BIO

Well where do I start? I wanted to be a writer ever since I was old enough to pick up a pen. I started with one page stories that I illustrated myself (badly) and, as I grew older, the stories got longer. For a long time I just wrote for myself, enjoying the process of disappearing off to new, imaginative worlds, but eventually, while working as a salesman in London I experienced this desperate desire to get published.

I've always been a huge crime fiction and thriller fan so I wrote a crime novel that, unfortunately, pretty much every literary agent and publisher in the land rejected. So I wrote another one with exactly the same result. I have enough rejection letters to decorate a whole house- three hundred in all-but finally I struck gold with my first novel, The Business of Dying, about a cop who moonlights as a hit man named Dennis Milne. It was released in 2002 (seven years after I first tried to get published!) and was described as 'the crime debut of the year' by The Independent, which was a very nice compliment.

Since then I've written a book a year (fifteen in all now) as well as a total of three novellas. I specialise in very fast-paced thrillers set over a short space of time which I like to think grab the reader from the very first page and don't let go. My fifth novel, Relentless, was a Richard and Judy summer read, and the ninth and tenth, The Last Ten Seconds and The Payback, both reached number 1 in the UK book charts, so they're good, I promise!

I don't have a series as such and most of the books can be read as standalones, but I do have recurring characters. Dennis Milne, my vigilante cop, returns in A Good Day to Die and The Payback, and my female detective, Tina Boyd- a woman who finds herself in dangerous situations seemingly at every turn- appears in the vast majority of the recent books.

Anyway, I hope you get a chance to take a look at one or more of them and please feel free to let me know your thoughts

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS...

Website: http://www.simonkernick.com

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/simonkernick

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/253943.Simon_Kernick


PUBLICATION DATE : 29th November 2018

PUBLISHER : Penguin Random House Uk/Cornerstone

GENRE : Psychological Thriller

PURCHASE LINK...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-See-You-Simon-Kernick-ebook/dp/B079VL23NG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1543435952&sr=1-1