10 October 2024

The Queen

 

By Nick Cutter

Review

When Margaret Carpenter finds a new iPhone on her doorstep she switches it on and discovers a text message from her best friend, Charity Atwater. However, Charity is a missing person and presumed dead. What follows is a bizarre chain of events as Margaret and friend Harry try to search for the truth about Charity's disappearance.

Well, this was certainly a weird one! Whilst I loved Nick Cutter's The Deep and The Troop, I found it difficult to be equally enthused with The Queen. It was a good story with lots of blood and gore but I didn't connect with it in the way I'd hoped. It was surreal and odd. Although sluggish at times, I did enjoy it but it wasn't quite what I'd expected. 

★★★☆☆

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia
  • Publication Year: 2024
  • Genre: Horror
  • Author: Nick Cutter

Synopsis

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity's been missing for over a month. Most people in town - even the police - think she's dead.

Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another . . . except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story - the real story. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend - a person she never truly knew at all . . .

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