Nightwatching

Rikke’s Review:

This book caught my eye, and I knew I had to read it even though I am not usually a big thriller/mystery reader. It is a heart-pounding story of survival, and a psychological portrait of a woman in a fragile mental state.

A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder. The story is equal parts intense, horrifying, sad and frustrating, and I felt panic as was reading it, yet I could not put it down! A true page turner that had me at the edge of my seat the whole time.

There was someone in the house. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night.

Then she hears a noise - old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs... In that split second, she has three choices.

Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?