Hide and Seek - Shelisha Reviews

The novel is a face-paced thriller centred around one Peter Stevenson, who is involved in a disturbing game of cat and mouse. Not only does the novel include descriptive gore, it also effectively uses a number of rhetoric devices. For example, the novel uses an unreliable narrator. The narrator is third person and appears omniscient, but does not reveal the identity of the murderous culprit. Instead the opening scene involving the killer is almost entirely dialogue, a clever way of concealing the killer’s identity. 

The novel also includes a number of gradual reveals about the characters and their relationship to each other. Not only are the most disturbing scenes very vivid and well described, there is a clear level of care taken in regards to the crimes. Brown is especially good at creating suspense through his characters. The killer is very intelligent and as such is able to create a number of traps before Peter can discover them. The traps are revealed in a number of personal riddles, leading the reader to believe that it is someone close to the victims making you doubt everything you have been told about these characters. I would recommend this 200 page thriller if you are looking for a book to get invested in.