Hardback: 406 pages
Genre: Contemporary Thriller, Mystery, fiction, Crime, Suspense.
Publisher: 2024 - Zaffre Publishing Group
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: It's towards the end of moving-in day that I find it.
Review Quote: 'Logan belongs in the top echelons of British thriller writers' Sunday Express
Setting: Nottingham, England
My Opinion:
Although I have been aware of the author T.M. Logan, thrillers are not my first choice of genre. No surprise then that this is the first of his novels that I have read, though hopefully it will not be the last.
'The Dream Home' is the story of Adam, his wife Jess and their three children as they gradually discover the sinister secrets connected to their new home. It is not just the house that is hiding secrets though and Adam finds that his consequent actions put the whole family in peril. A very dark story with so many menacing facts revealed as the novel progresses that I was kept unsuccessfully guessing right to the end!
Throughly enjoyed this tension packed thriller, which I highly recommend to fans of the genre.
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
Their dream house will become a nightmare . . .
Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young a rambling Victorian villa right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a fitted wardrobe, concealing a secret room . . .
Inside Adam discovers an array of forgotten items, among them a wallet, an antique watch and an old mobile phone. Jess thinks they should simply throw them away. But Adam resists. He is fascinated by these items and how they came to be inside the hidden room.
But like the house, Adam has his secrets too. And soon he will find himself setting in motion a series of events that will place his family in terrible danger . . .
Author Profile:
Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.
He was born in Berkshire on the 19th of December 1975 and grew up in Reading, the youngest of three boys and a fully-fledged bookworm from a very young age. He read history at Westfield College, part of the University of London, and went on to do a postgrad at Cardiff University.
Wanting to write journalism seemed an obvious choice, and after five years as a reporter and then education correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post he moved to London to work on the Daily Mail. The next move took him back to the East Midlands, where he worked for the University of Nottingham as a press officer, writing fiction in any spare time he could find. In January 2017 his first thriller was published. a few weeks later his current position as a deputy director in charge of the university’s communications team – was scrapped as part of a restructure. That was when he decided to take the plunge into writing full-time.
He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a cabin in the corner of his garden.
Photographs and Biographical Information courtesy of the following sites:
Goodreads Author Profile. Amazon Author Page Official Author Website
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