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Follow You Home Kindle Edition
The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home.
Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, they realise they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is just beginning…
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas & Mercer
- Publication dateJune 30, 2015
- File size3.3 MB
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‘Twisty, turny and downright creepy in places Mark Edwards has, yet again, produced an unputdownable psychological thriller. He is a master at creating a tangled web of secrets, lies and red herrings so cleverly constructed that I was kept guessing all the way through. Highly recommended.’ —CL Taylor, author of The Accident
‘Disturbing, engrossing, and makes the time fly by. As ever, Edwards is a class act.’ —Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls
‘Once you start reading you won’t be able to stop…This is my first Mark Edwards book but I will now be reading every one.’ —Angela Marsons, author of Silent Scream
‘Keep the lights on. ALL the lights. Every room. I had to sleep with a night light when I’d finished it.’ —Liz Barnsley, Liz Loves Books
‘Full of creeping menace, Mark Edwards’ distinctive brand of domestic noir will make you think twice about talking to strangers when you next go on holiday.’ —Nick Quantrill, author of The Joe Geraghty series
‘Fast-paced and twisted: it’s another Mark Edwards sensation.’ —Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
About the Author
Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people and is inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Ira Levin, Ruth Rendell and Linwood Barclay.
Mark grew up on the south coast of England and started writing in his twenties, teaming up with Louise Voss to co-write Killing Cupid and Catch Your Death, which topped the UK bestseller chart in 2011.
His solo thrillers, The Magpies and Because She Loves Me were also #1 bestsellers in the UK. Like these previous novels, his fourth solo book, Follow You Home, was inspired by a real-life experience, in this case a ‘trip from hell’ around Europe.
He lives in the West Midlands, England, with his wife, their three children and a ginger cat.
He can be contacted via his website, www.markedwardsauthor.com.
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- ASIN : B00SLWQGUM
- Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
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- Publication date : June 30, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 3.3 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 402 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1503999374
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #30,964 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #150 in Heist Thrillers
- #1,157 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #1,181 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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I write books in which scary things happen to ordinary people, the best known of which are Follow You Home, The Magpies, and Here To Stay. My novels have sold over 5 million copies and topped the bestseller lists numerous times. I pride myself on writing fast-paced page-turners with lots of twists and turns, relatable characters and dark humour. My next novel is The Wasp Trap, which will be published in July in the UK/Australia and September in the US/Canada.
I live in the West Midlands, England, with my wife, our three children, two cats and a golden retriever.
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Customers find the book suspenseful with lots of twists and turns in the plot, and one review describes it as a psychological thriller with an interesting premise. Moreover, the writing is engaging with well-fleshed-out descriptions, and customers appreciate the well-developed characters with surprising dimensions. Additionally, the book is a page-turner that customers couldn't put down, with one review noting it's hard to put down from the first couple of pages. However, the pacing receives mixed reactions - while some enjoy the pace, others mention the story slows to a crawl.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016Laura and Daniel are two successful thirty-some things who decide they're going to have one big fling and spend the summer touring Europe before they start a family. Boarding a train for Romania Daniel decides to go for cheaper tickets, skipping pricier sleeper car tickets and thereby starts a string of unexpected and dangerous consequences. They strike up a friendship with another young couple Ion and Alina, both Eastern Europeans. Laura notices an older man because he stares at her, causing enough discomfort that she changes seats. After several hours, fatigue overtakes Laura and Ion and Alina convince her to lay down in an empty sleeper car, promising to wake them before the next stop and the conductor's rounds. Daniel joins her but ends up falling asleep as well and the pair awaken when the conductor enters the compartment, asking to see their tickets. The two look for their tickets but they've disappeared, along with their passports. The conductor speaks only a few words of English and Alina intervenes, and the discussion escalates into a loud argument, resulting to the three of them being ejected from the train. As the train pulls out, Ion looks out a window, horrified at what's happened. The three trek on to the nearest village but experience 'bad vibes' from the local police and decide to leave and once again, hike along the train tracks. Alina eventually needs to go into the bushes for a private rest stop and when she doesn't return, they begin to hunt for her, finding one of her boots on a path leading to an old house in the forest. Forcing themselves to enter the forbidding looking house they encounter horrors that haunt them as they eventually make their way back to England. Daniel starts drinking heavily and Laura becomes distant, eventually moving out of their apartment and in with friends; neither wanting to discuss what happened in Romania with anyone. Daniel finally begins therapy but Laura becomes more and more distant, believing she sees ghosts. A series of strange and frightening events begin to follow, including his apartment being broken in to, murders, and more unanswered questions. Daniel starts to get himself straightened out and begins to piece together what's happening. The rollercoaster ending ties everything together but to say more now would give away too much and spoil the surprises, and there are some beauts! A really good read.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2021My Review 3.5 Stars Rounded To 4 Stars****
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I finished reading my third book written by Mark Edwards last night. I was first introduced to his works when I read HERE TO STAY {2019] and later THE MAGPIES [2013] in January of last year. I absolutely loved HERE TO STAY and the author had recommended to new readers of his to read THE MAGPIES and FOLLOW YOU HOME next. THE MAGPIES was not in the same league as HERE TO STAY but it was admittedly an impressive psychological thriller for a debut novel from a newcomer. Ironically, I saw an email recently for an online event Edwards is sponsoring which features FOLLOW YOU HOME and it occurred to me that I hadn’t read it yet.
It’s an odd thing to say beginning a book review, but I am not sure how I feel about FOLLOW YOU HOME. The novel introduces a likeable-enough thirtyish couple (Daniel and Laura) who are engaged in a sort of trek across Europe to experience a bit of fun and adventure before returning to England to settle down and begin a family. They are depicted as genuinely in love and having lived together for a number of years before this ill-fated trip to Europe. The catalyst for all that follows is that Daniel opted for a pair of seats in lieu of a private locked sleeping compartment. The reader (this one anyway) is quick to criticize this penny-pinching exercise on Daniel’s part, but then upon reflection it really isn’t all that difficult to understand. The pair have been together for years and it isn’t a period in their lives when privacy would have likely been Daniel’s highest priority, albeit in hindsight security should have been. In the event he was frugal by nature I can see his actions as maybe even typical of his character. In any case, I don’t want to blame a rape victim because she was wearing a short shirt and a tight blouse.
Then there is the issue of Daniel and Laura meeting the two strangers on the train Ion and Alina. The pair are in their twenties with Ion resembling a gym member with a toned physique and his female companion more punk and Goth than anything else. Again, there is the temptation to think “what idiots” (Daniel and Laura), but still again they are not inherently suspicious people, and it isn’t difficult to see how that the meeting could have come about.
Things go “to hell in a hand basket” pretty quickly and it seems before you can blink Daniel, Laura, and their new acquaintance Alina are being rudely booted off the train at an isolated railway station in the middle of nowhere in the blackness of night.
The trio are predictably cold and completely unprepared for the unfamiliar surroundings and their collective inability to call for necessary assistance. They begin a trek along the path beside the railroad tracks which is bordered by the woods. It is their hope to reach the nearest town with the aid of Daniel’s small LED flashlight and the intermittent moonlight that pierces the darkness and the gloom. Alina leaves the couple alone to walk a short distance into the woods for a bit of privacy. Daniel and Laura wait for what seems like more than a reasonable amount of time and yet Alina doesn’t return. The couple eventually conclude that something untoward may have occurred and that they have a responsibility to investigate. They travel together through the rough foliage and woodsy terrain deep into the woods before finding one of Alina’s black boots. The couple continue with the lone boot in hand only to late stumble into a large clearing. An ancient appearing house stands alone and ominous in front of them. Daniel and Laura enter the spooky house with trepidation. They leave the premises empty handed, screaming and running like the devil is chasing them.
The premise of the novel is based upon what happened to this English couple when they chose to enter this house of horrors in Romania to find their new acquaintance Alina. The answer is a cliffhanger that is only gradually revealed to the reader as the narrative unfolds. The book is indeed “unputdownable” because as you approach the 50% mark in the story, you are no closer to learning what happened in the house of horrors in the woods than you were when Daniel and Laura dashed out of its door screaming. Meanwhile, back in England Daniel is suffering from PTSD, swimming in self-pity, drinking himself to death, and wishing to God he could turn back the hands of time.
“If I could turn back the clock . . . Unfortunately, real life has no erase button.”
Laura, meanwhile has left Daniel and moved in with a couple of her married friends who are expecting a new baby. She is a certifiable basket-case but denies the need for psychiatric counseling. In fact, she discourages and criticizes Daniel for talking to a therapist about their ordeal in Romania.
My curiosity was really piqued about what all could have possibly happened in the house of horrors in the deep woods. That said, at least initially and for the major portion of the book, I was unable to feel any sympathy for the main characters, namely the narrator Daniel and his girlfriend Laura. On a more positive note, the author does an admirable job of doling out bits of the puzzle for the reader to try to work out the mystery as the narrative marches along. New characters are introduced as the mayhem increases and the body count starts to rise. The novel delivers a multi-layered plot line that delves into some of the darkest crevices of human nature. The characters and motives range from garden variety drug smuggling which is motivated by money and greed to more sinister and dark acts of depravity that we associate with sexual predators and sociopaths in our midst. The author tackles some very disturbing material in the book ranging from abduction, torture, repeated rape and murder of multiple female victims to the trafficking and sale of the infants born during their tortured and inhumane captivity.
The title of the novel FOLLOW YOU HOME refers to a supernatural entity or the essence of pure evil. Specifically, Laura is convinced that she and Daniel were infected or contaminated by this "evil" which traveled across both time and space to "find" them in England, or essentially “followed” them home. It is obviously up to the reader to decide whether this contention is reality based or rather a concept constructed by Laura’s traumatized psyche. Purportedly she is a normal, caring young woman at the outset, albeit a believer in the supernatural. Personally, I think the age-old question of whether pure evil exists as a singular supernatural entity, or alternatively that it is only the actions of human sociopaths or psychopaths that carry out perverse and incomprehensible acts of cruelty and horror that is our true evil.
I said at the start that I am not sure how I feel about this book. It was a page-turner to be sure. My main issues with the novel fall into three categories. The first, I have already addressed, namely that the main protagonists did not elicit sympathy following their trip to Europe. The second problem was credibility obstacles. Examples include, but were not limited to, the implausibility of the traumatized English couple exhibiting such stark paranoia about reporting their experience to the authorities once they were safe back at home in England. In fairness, the author does attempt to explain this matter toward the conclusion of the book, notably Laura’s exertion of influence on Daniel to remain silent on the matter. But that leads to my third issue with the book. I ordinarily enjoy an author’s skilled misdirection and plot twists. A shocking surprise following the big plot twist at the end of a novel is particularly brilliant when it is well executed, AND when it does not ruin the ending of the book for the reader.
That said, the author managed to successfully render a sympathetic version of Daniel, but it was late in the game when he finally “grew a spine”. He sought the help of a PI and together the two were exceptional in putting together a truly complex puzzle. Daniel ultimately became calm in the face of chaos and calamity, drawing on his inner strengths of logical and clear thinking. Daniel became cognizant that the chance to redeem himself was at hand and he seized it. He began to view the complicated predicament like looking at it from outside or above, to analyze the puzzles, make pieces fit and to divine the answers with calm logic. Importantly he was able to recognize and acknowledge his own responsibility for the entire murky quagmire that was a freakshow of horror. It is a fact that had Daniel spent the extra money for a private sleeping car that it would have effectively changed his and Laura’s destiny.
For me, it finally all came down to the big reveal in the end that the “truth” about the actions taken in the house of horrors had been reversed in Daniel’s revisionist history account. It was Laura, and not Daniel, who had been scared witless and wanted nothing short of to “cut and run” out of the hell that the two of them had inadvertently walked into and witnessed. Her own actions in the face of this horror were a reality that she was unable to accept without essentially disintegrating. That is the reason for her abandonment of Daniel and the real reason that she wanted to keep what happened a sacred secret never to be spoken aloud and never to be shared. I had a problem with this because I kept asking myself if falling to pieces in a life-threatening situation to save yourself was something that would cause an otherwise sane, well-adjusted adult to dissolve into a psychotic state. It is not called “fight, freeze, or flight” for nothing. In the face of this perceived credibility issue, the “plot twist upon a plot twist” delivered by Edwards is followed by a shocking surprise ending, a coup de gras for me. The Apple Phone. Laura has learned that she is pregnant, and she appears to be grasping the notion that she can face what has happened and be reunited with her beloved Daniel. But no happy ending here! Edwards does a fine job executing the big reveals as they come like staccato blasts from an automatic weapon at the conclusion of the book. However, I didn’t like the unhappy ending but more central to the actual criticism is whether I can suspend disbelief that a normal empathetic young woman like Laura is initially portrayed could transform so radically into such a psychological basket case that she would not even blink at committing cold blooded murder. There is the caveat of course, and that is if Laura was right all along, and the very essence of evil DID follow them home, her thoughts and actions no longer her own.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016This is a very well written book, and the Kindle conversion is almost perfect. Suspenseful and atmospheric, it keeps the reader engaged with wanting to know what happens next. When it comes to the question of "what really happened", though, the author drags out the reveal to almost infuriating lengths. (Everytime Daniel starts to tell the whole story to someone, he is interrupted.) This is a good device for keeping the reader engaged, but it wears thins after it's been used several times and just becomes annoying. The "voice" of this novel was also problematic for me. Most of the story is told in the first person, from the protagonist's (Daniel's) point of view. But then there are entire chapters that are told in the third person, and we are inside every other character's head, knowing things that the narrator could not possibly know. Mixed person narratives can work in some instances, but in this instance, it didn't work for me. There were also situations that as the reader had me wanting to yell at Daniel to move, or at least have his locks changed, after his flat had been broken into several times. Daniel's solution is to install security cameras so that he can record the break-ins as they occur! Excuse me if I found this particularly strange behavior! I thought the book was overly long, and then rushed at the end, as if the author just wanted to be done with it. All these minor points aside, I found the book delivered what it promised, although not quite what I expected. I recommend the book for some good solid diversionary reading, as long as you don't mind a little ridiculousness in your reading.
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- Jean WilliamsReviewed in Spain on December 16, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars FOLLOW YOU HOME
How afraid can you be. Reading a book. Safe and secure. But each page led me to actually feel fear. This story is one of the most terrifying I have read. Two young people backpacking through Europe. They board a train an route to Romania. What happens after that is where the terror lies. Mark Edwards is a master of the pen. Highly Recommended.
- Vanessa NoronhaReviewed in India on February 4, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Much better!
Edwards getting better, though i feel the forest experience a little hyped. But i guess it's true too coz regular people would be horrified at such a scene. Feel bad for Jake though.
- JuniperReviewed in Canada on December 19, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept me into the early hours of the morning
With every page I turned after they were in the house in the forest I found it hard to get to the point where I would learn of the outcome. That was brilliantly done. The absolute end really boggled my mind. Just couldn't believe what I was reading. I chose my rating because this book kept me wanting to get to the end without cheating. Of the four or five other books that was reading at the same time, this got my attention the most. Will now have to finish reading the others.
- Andre RCReviewed in Brazil on September 4, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast reading
Very good!! Gripping all the way!! For those who like surprises! read it and enjoy the story.have a good reading!
- PeterBReviewed in Australia on January 17, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent psychological thriller
What happened to Daniel and Laura in Romania? What unspeakable horror did they see in that house in the forest? This is the basis of the plot about a young couple whose European holiday comes to an sudden and horrific end. They return home to London, but their lives have been irrevocably changed forever. And it doesn't end there - the horror of Romania does indeed, as the title of the books suggests, follow them home! This is an excellent psychological thriller with the author slowly feeding us pieces of the puzzle building to a gripping climax followed by a final unexpected twist. There were no slow bits in this book, and I found it hard to put down. Thoroughly recommended. I will be reading more from this author.