I Follow You by Peter James

 

WARNING: Do not take this book to bed with you if you have to get up and go to work next day. Once the story gets rolling the suspense becomes unbearable and you have to see it through to its final nail biting conclusion.

When I started reading I Follow You I had to make a rapid gear change from Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite prose in Hamnet to Peter James’s no-nonsense story telling. They are both masters of their respective styles so the shift from one to the other is an easy one.

 I’m a huge fan of the Roy Grace series and Peter James says in his afterword that he debated whether to make this a Roy Grace story but felt he “could write a more claustrophobic story just keeping the focus entirely on the principal characters  themselves”. Georgie and Roger are living happily on the island of Jersey and ecstatic that Georgie, at 41, has finally become pregnant. Georgie has a successful business as a personal trainer and Roger is a flying instructor who is aiming to extend his air taxi business. Marcus Valentine is a handsome, confident consultant  gynae-oncologist with a loving, beautiful wife and three small children. One of these people is the product of an extremely unhappy childhood resulting in the kind of obsessive behaviour which could end up ruining all of their lives.

This is a ripper yarn and Peter James at his most superb! 5 out of 5.

Published by Macmillan