Taking the same route every day, sitting in the same seat, standing on the same spot on the platform.” Plugged into their iPods, staring at their phones, reading their papers. You see them every day, oblivious to the world around them. I questioned my travel choices the places I stood on the platform, the direction I took for my lunchtime walk, I became aware of those around me. While reading I found myself looking up, wondering what I’m missing when I spend my whole journey with my head in the pages of a book. The chapters continue alternately, switching between Zoe and PC Kelly Swift, an officer with the British Transport Police.Įach character in this story is realistic, from 19 year old Katie falling for an older man, to Graham, Zoe’s demanding boss. What follows is a story of suspense as it becomes clear that Zoe, among the other women featured in the same advert, is being stalked. Something seems strange about it, the woman in the photo looks familiar because it turns out Zoe is looking at a picture of herself. One day while travelling to work, Zoe notices an advert for a in the back of the paper. Zoe is a woman of routine, like the majority of us are, and she’s content with the lifestyle she leads. Zoe Walker is a commuter, travelling on various tube lines to her dreary workplace every morning, taking the same route everyday, reading the same paper, dropping a coin in the same busker’s case.
When I started reading, I discovered it’s set in London, on the underground – the very place where I read 99% of my books. I’d never heard of Claire Mackintosh before and picked this book up as part of a bundle deal without much thought of the plot or the author. Boy kills girl.Īhhh! This book felt far too real at times! If it isn’t boy meets girl, it’s boy stalks girl. I can’t see the title but it doesn’t matter they’re all the same.
You’re engrossed in your book a paperback cover with a girl in a red dress. Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make … But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it’s just someone who looks like Zoe. There’s no explanation: just a grainy image, a website address and a phone number.
When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it’s there.
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