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Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy. Then he's paid a surprise visit by a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: All the characters she creates for her books become real to her.
With no police to investigate and no escape, could it be the perfect setting for a crime? Martin Schwartz (Beesley) is an undercover detective who is recovering from his wife and sons' bizarre disappearance from a cruise ship 5 years ago. He is a desperate man willing to take big risks. Martin never wanted to step onto a cruise ship again until he receives a call which can't be ignored. On average, 23 people per year disappear without a trace from cruise ships. Never before has someone come back... until now.
My name is Simon. I’m 10 years old. I’m a serial killer. Robert Stern (Rupert Penry-Jones), a successful defense attorney, doesn’t know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. Stern is more than surprised, when his old love interest and professional nurse Carina (Emilia Fox) presents him a ten year old boy as his new client. Simon (Jack Boulter), a terminally ill child, who is convinced he has murdered many men in a previous life.
Have you ever done something you wish you could forget? Wracked with grief after an accident killed his wife and unborn child, all Marc Lucas wants is to wipe his memory. Until he returns home one night to find that his key doesn't fit in the lock and his wife is alive, well and pregnant - but claims not to recognise him. Marc is drawn into a nightmare world, one where it's impossible to separate reality from fiction. Is he going mad? Or is there a conspiracy at work - one that could cost him his memory?
Ready or not, here he comes.... It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, a washed-up cop turned journalist, has reported all three of the Eye Collector's murders. But this is different. His wallet has been found next to the corpse, and now he's a suspect.
This was to be her last day alive. The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion. Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game.
Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy. Then he's paid a surprise visit by a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: All the characters she creates for her books become real to her.
With no police to investigate and no escape, could it be the perfect setting for a crime? Martin Schwartz (Beesley) is an undercover detective who is recovering from his wife and sons' bizarre disappearance from a cruise ship 5 years ago. He is a desperate man willing to take big risks. Martin never wanted to step onto a cruise ship again until he receives a call which can't be ignored. On average, 23 people per year disappear without a trace from cruise ships. Never before has someone come back... until now.
My name is Simon. I’m 10 years old. I’m a serial killer. Robert Stern (Rupert Penry-Jones), a successful defense attorney, doesn’t know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. Stern is more than surprised, when his old love interest and professional nurse Carina (Emilia Fox) presents him a ten year old boy as his new client. Simon (Jack Boulter), a terminally ill child, who is convinced he has murdered many men in a previous life.
Have you ever done something you wish you could forget? Wracked with grief after an accident killed his wife and unborn child, all Marc Lucas wants is to wipe his memory. Until he returns home one night to find that his key doesn't fit in the lock and his wife is alive, well and pregnant - but claims not to recognise him. Marc is drawn into a nightmare world, one where it's impossible to separate reality from fiction. Is he going mad? Or is there a conspiracy at work - one that could cost him his memory?
Ready or not, here he comes.... It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, a washed-up cop turned journalist, has reported all three of the Eye Collector's murders. But this is different. His wallet has been found next to the corpse, and now he's a suspect.
This was to be her last day alive. The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion. Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game.
In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of 10, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago.
In 1986, Eddie and his friend are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same.
Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her 50s who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the hamper that isn't hers. For years she's buried the signs of John's devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind - until the day John is crippled by a heart attack.
Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney's office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again - this time, accused of murder. Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case.
You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.
It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. When he awakens, Carver works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation.
Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn't want to see them, and she definitely doesn't want them to see her. What is a curse to Elizabeth is a gift to others - a very valuable gift they want to control. When her husband dies, Elizabeth's world descends into a nightmare. But as she tries to piece her life back together, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.
In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son's red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten years later Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life...until Aiden returns.
Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve's hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. Two weeks later, as Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap - a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems.
Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called "a talented writer with a delightfully devious mind". For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one that proves he has taken another victim, who may still be alive.
Ten years ago college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to - a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls.
Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she's about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr. Lyman Bishop, aka the Zombie Maker, given his fondness for performing icepick lobotomies on his victims. A brilliant cancer researcher, Bishop is either the most cunning psychopath Evelyn has ever encountered - or he is wrongly convicted.
As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition.
Eventually he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later, Leon's wife disappears from their flat under mysterious circumstances. Could it be that his illness has broken out again?
In order to find out how he behaves in his sleep, Leon fits a movement-activated camera to his forehead - and when he looks at the video the next morning he makes a discovery that bursts the borders of his imagination. His nocturnal personality goes through a door that is totally unknown to him and descends into the darkness....
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This book was creeptastic! I am a huge fan of audio books because it allows me to do one of my favorite things while working around my house or running errands. I saw a review for this book on a fellow bloggers page, and immediately had to purchase it. I am so glad I did. I sucked it up in one day. Poor kids tried to talk to me with ear buds in my ears all day....Hmm, now maybe now they know how it feels as a mom to speak to them...
The very first chapter, had me squirming. Bugs......that's all I will say.
Psychological thrillers trip me out. Our minds are so complex and amazing, and at the same time can be scary. Things that make you go "hmmm".
Leon finds himself waking up from a nightmare to find his wife is packing her things and crying. When he sees her face all beat up he is horrified. Did he do it? Has his condition come back?
Leon decided to buy a camera to hook to his head to see what is going on at night while he sleeps. When he wakes the next day to watch the film he finds something in his house and gets pulled into an underground world. The problem is Leon cannot decide if what is happening is real or if it's all a bad dream.
The story is absolutely fascinating. Even I was questioning what was happening to Leon. Sometimes I didn't even know if what I was listening to was Leon being conscious of his behaviors or in some kind of in between sleep and consciousness state.
Leon finds clues that his wife didn't actually leave but is missing, and this door he has found in his room is going to lead him to her somehow. Leon finds out that his wife isn't who he thought she was, but he still loves her and is desperate to find her.
First he finds her cell phone. Then he finds his pen, that was on his desk. The more clues he finds the more Leon is convinced that he himself has put Natalie in danger, and may in fact be responsible for her disappearance.
As this story unfolds I was constantly saying "what the what".....Just when I thought something made sense something else would happen that made me question my own judgement of what was happening. I love it when a book does that to me.
The ending was as fantastic as the beginning. I was caught off guard, surprised, and it was awesome. If you like psychological thrillers this is a great one to pick up. Plus the narrator is awesome and has a sweet accent that I could have listened to for hours. In fact, as soon as I was done with this book I immediately bought another one of his books with the same narrator. I love the way this author's mind works. It is so mind blowing to hear it played out in a book.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
Every two minutes Leon reacts to something by saying "That's impossible!" Only half of the time there's a reasonable explanation. Also, it's disappointing to me when the explanation at the end isn't something I could have worked out on my own. Obviously, if you cross out zero possibilities, you can make any explanation make sense, but the more of a stretch it is, the more it feels convenient for the author. I felt like the explanation at the end could just as easily have been "aliens did it" and have been no less improbable than how the book actually ended.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Narrator is great and really made this worth sticking to. Story goes back and forth between the main character's waking and sleep walking and gets confusing. The end doesn't clear that up.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
My head is still spinning thinking about this terrific book. I found it very well written, fast paced, and complex. Just what is a sleepwalker capable of when in a sleep state? Perhaps a more difficult question is how can you tell which is the sleep state and which is awake?
As main character Leon searches frantically for answers, he leads the reader down a trail that has twist and literal turns, right up to the startling end.
Very impressed with the writing, the translation and the narration!
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
This was a very fast paced, keep-em-guessing type story that I thoroughly enjoyed! I found the plot line to be a bit over-complicated at times, but I was still so caught up in this story that I listened to the entire thing in only two evenings. I plan on checking out more of Sebastian Fitzek's titles, especially if they are also narrated by Robert Glenister. I found his engaging style of narrating to be the perfect compliment to the gradual 'what the?!' unfolding of the story and was certainly a factor in my enjoyment of this audiobook. Definitely recommend!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I have quickly become a fan of Sebastian Fitzek's work. Though I'd have to say that 'Therapy' is my favorite thus far, 'The Night Walker' was entertaining to say the least. I've come to expect that although his books mostly center around deep psychological issues, the nature of each psychosis keeps you guessing until the very end.You might think you've figured out what's going on and then a minute later, something else happens that blows your hypothesis to smithereens. The characters are always well-rounded and developed, the dialogue interesting and plot is steeped in mystery. Robert Glenister is a superb narrator, though I don't feel he fit the part of the main character quite as well as he did in 'Therapy.' All in all, if you're looking for a mind-bender that is as dark as it is mysterious, you won't be disappointed. I'd listen to it again.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This is a combination of science fiction and horror. Anyone who enjoys reading about recurring nightmares of a giant cockroach or beaten women will just love this book. I tried but I can't read another word!
A story so masterfully told even the reader has a hard time separating dream from reality. The voice acting was perfect for the story and skillfully told.
Story went back and forth a lot and was hard to follow what "state" the main character was in. Was confused and hard to follow. Ending left a lot to be desired.
Would you try another book from Sebastian Fitzek and/or Robert Glenister?
Not in this lifetime.
Would you ever listen to anything by Sebastian Fitzek again?
An emphatic no.
How could the performance have been better?
The narrator's reading was overwrought and hyper dramatic.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Not that I can think of.
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I hope I can forget this book soon. I wish I hadn't forced myself to finish it. Sometimes. You should just cut your losses.
6 of 12 people found this review helpful
Really enjoyed this audio book, keeps you guessing till the end. Very unusual story, mind based as you would expect but could not stop listening.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Narrator was brilliant, as ever, with a complicated, or more accurately, confusing story that still left me a bit puzzled at the end. However I thoroughly enjoyed it, as well as all the other Sebastian Fitzek novels I have read/listened to..would recommend without hesitation if you like intriguing psychological thrillers..!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I wasn't too sure about this book at the start, but as it unfolded you get drawn in wanting to know exactly what is happening to the main character. the ending was definitely not an ending I expected.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I loved this story from being to end, fast paced with lots of twists and turns, brilliant plot with brilliant narration
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
To be honest I did enjoy it but he ending was I think a bit lame and far fetched, I also am not sure what was true! Maybe that’s the whole point. As usual Robert Glenister was excellent.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
After listening to Therapy which was absolutely brilliant, I was really keen to start listening to another one of Sebastian Fitzek's thrillers.
I wasn't too sure about this one.
Narration was fantastic.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I've read / listened to most of Sebastian's books. While I've enjoyed every single one I do feel like this is one of his weakest stories.
With his other books there always was a bit of suspense and head scratching. However with the Nightwalker it seemed a little but far fetched from the start. Then the conclusion seemed like a bit of a cop out.
Not a bad book but not up there with the likes of Passenger 23.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book, it kept you guessing right until the end until the end.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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To be honest I don't usually give bad reviews. But I do give honest ones, and this book was extremely average, if I am being generous. Robert's performance was fantastic as always, but the story was boring and uninteresting. Fitzek is usually the master of gripping psychological thrillers, but I guess even the best have their off days. Certainly not what I would have expected from Fitzek. Narrator did his job but even with some decent narrating even Robert Glenister couldn't save this book from the 'vanilla' and 'quite boring' testimony it was headed for. A shame.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I love this author but this was dreadful.
I got 1 hour 30 minutes from the end and decided I just couldn't finish it. One week later I felt in a good enough mood to continue but I shouldn't have bothered.
The narrator as always was brilliant.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
Surreal out of mind monolog that just wont stop. after the 6th chapter you wonder where it is going. after the 29th I have up and dont care. first audiobook I had to turn off. Not quiet Brett Easton Ellis but wants to be. terrible.