Published by Corvus Genres: Contempory, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, suspense, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
What could be better than a book within a book especially when that book is so freaking good!?!
Eve Black was only 12 years old when she survived the Nothing Man. Her family, unfortunately was not that lucky. Their killer has been dubbed the nothing man because he leaves no clues behind. A man who entered his victims homes, often leaving rope and a knife hidden under the couch cushions to only come back later and terrorize and at at times kill his victims.
Eve is no longer a child, she is a grown woman with an agenda – she is going to catch the Nothing Man. A writer from a young age, Eve has written a true crime memoir about the Nothing Man, his victims and her personal experience with him the night he killed her family.
Jim Doyle is a supermarket security guard who is obsessed with reading Eve’s memoir. He gets up in the night to sneak in some reading. With every page he turns, his anger and rage grows for HE is the Nothing Man.
This book is told through the past and the present and through Eve’s memoir. I enjoyed the book while reading it but after completing it, I found myself still thinking about it, or shall I say the clever way in which Catherine Ryan Howard executed this book, specifically the book within the book and the interactions between the characters. Brilliant! Plus, did you see her name in the acknowledgements section?
This became a real page turner for me. Knowing who the Nothing Man was and how he became even more incensed while he read the book, was a fabulous touch and the twist!?! How about that! Seriously, I did not see THAT coming!
Riveting and addictive, this was a brilliantly plotted page turner which was well written and perfectly paced.
Thank you to Blackstone Publishing and Edelweiss who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.