Stalker by Lisa Stone

 

Stalker by Lisa Stone

Tiny Overview

Derek Flint lives with his elderly mother, and his Dad left when he was younger. He is a loner who sticks to a rigid routine, and struggles with human connection. To combat this, he spies on people through the CCTV he installs for people. However, it starts to backfire, and he starts to worry for his 'friends and family'. 

Themes:

• Psychological Fiction
• Suspense
• Thriller
• Mystery
• Crime

Context

After 28 novels as Cathy Glass, in 2017 she adopted a new pseudonym, Stone, to write a whole new line of thriller books. In an interview with The Bookworms Fantasy, that she researches thoroughly to be able to avoid inaccuracies, and this leads her to struggle to sleep at night, as all her crime thrillers are based in fact.

My Waffling

I like to reward myself with a Lisa Stone book, as you've probably noticed by now. I read this one in two days... I have to ration them, especially now as I've almost completed her thriller books.

DC Beth Mayes is back!! And she's saying weird things like 'Struth'? Never heard of it before this, had to google it and ask my boss, it's short for 'God's Truth', and used when something surprising / shocking happens. Anyways. 

The real thing this fiction book is based off of is The Dark Web, which was only mentioned towards the end - but I do love how her books are based off of real things.  

The main thing that annoyed me the most was the customers of Derek. The recurring theme is that they got broken into, so they contacted Derek to install CCTV. But when they get broken into again, they complained and kicked off to Derek? How is it his fault? I know it was for story progression, but it kept really annoying me. People probably act like this in real life anyways. 

Good, easy, captivating read as always. 

3/5