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In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling, darkly funny novel about a man who quietly spies on the private lives of his neighbors.
You won’t remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That’s absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all.
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"A brilliant read, almost unbearably tense at times." (Wendy Holden Daily Mail)
"I loved A Pleasure and a Calling - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant!" (Sophie Hannah)
"A wonderfully creepy novel, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero." (Rosamund Lupton)
"Very clever. A creepily alluring voice" (Julia Crouch, author of Cuckoo and Tarnished)
"Phil Hogan is a brilliant writer." (Peter Bradshaw)
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"I loved A Pleasure and a Calling - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant!" (Sophie Hannah)
"A wonderfully creepy novel, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero." (Rosamund Lupton)
"Very clever. A creepily alluring voice" (Julia Crouch, author of Cuckoo and Tarnished)
"Phil Hogan is a brilliant writer." (Peter Bradshaw)
In the excitement of moving into your new home did you think to change the locks? Are you sure no-one else is making use of your key? Compelling, unsettling and macabre social satire.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1501220756
- ISBN 13 9781501220753
- BindingMP3 CD
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