Review: The Killer You Know

The Killer You Know by S.R. Masters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

All of this started the night Will told us he was going to be a serial killer”

This is S.R. Masters debut novel, a psychological thriller set in 2015, with flashbacks to the late 90’s.

December 2015, and Adeline has come home to Blythe….she’s stopped by to visit her parents. she didn’t have a particularly close relationship with them, but her mum is ill….but nothings changed and the little digs are still there.

A reunion of her teenage friends has been arranged and so she leaves her parents as soon as she can as she wants to meet her old gang, Jen. Steve, Rupresh and Will.

They all arrive except for Will….

As they catch up, they begin to talk about Will, and his surprising revelation as a teenager that he was going to be a serial killer. He was planning on disappearing for a year and killing three people and making it look like suicide……he would know it was murder and so would his friends now…

He even went into details, a festival hanging by a guy rope and a drowning in Loch Ness and a third close to home…..

They laugh about how weird Will was, until they google festival suicide and things start to get real…..it’s a coincidence isn’t it ? Will wouldn’t really kill someone would he? Does Steve know more than he’s letting on?

What follows is a creepy, unsettling psychological thriller interspersed with a coming of age drama….the trials and tribulations of being a teenager…..and a feud with the odd Mr Strachan and his dog. Slow burning and tension filled thriller….brilliant.

Thank you to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours for the opportunity to participate in this blog tour and for the promotional materials and a free copy of the book in exchange for my honest, unbiased review.

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