Sue Walker

Sue Walker is a well established thriller author. I love thriller novels, to really capture my attention in a book alot of the time there has to be a constant cliff hanger, that total 'i can't put this down' feeling. I tend to read a book in a week and then not bother reading for another month. The experience has to be intense and Sue Walker manages this with her books.

She has had three very successful books called 'The dead Pool', 'The Reckoning' and 'The Reunion'. The reunion is my favourite book that she has written, it's a constant display of her ability to capture fear and tension. Although the books arn't scary to the point where you can't turn your bedroom light off on a night time they certainly get you in the moment, Walker doesn't write just for the sake of scaring you, she writes a great plot and a complexed ending.

This particular book is about how a group of pyschologically disturbed teenagers who are in a group called 'the unit' are haunted by their past when they are all middle aged and have gone their seperate ways-it follows one character discovering what happened in her past, on one particular night. With many mysterious killings going on around her the book oozes tension and a need to know how it's going to end and what really happened that night. It shows very well how a early bad start to life can effect and torture people, the book shows real pyschological depth and research into how certain illnesses and troubles can effect people in certain ways.

Much like Ian Rankin, Sue walker was made to write thriller novels. Her covers are often haunting in themselves, suggesting a situation but not really showing it. Her work definitely stands out in the crowd of many average thriller writers.