Your Every Move by Sam Blake

Your Every Move by Sam Blake

Sam Blake, is at the top of her game in this book – authentic, assured and measured in equal parts. The blurb sets the scene for a thriller with a difference as Rosie Kinsella, a top notch estate agent working in the luxury homes sales market in London is subjected to a barrage of emails, voice mails and texts from an unknown male, purporting to know her. Throughout the novel, her stalker gets progressively closer, but Rosie, who has a large social media following, uses her Instagram account to send out messages indirectly to him ‘If you’re reading this Michael….I won’t be on my own for one minute.’ Given her IG following, it isn’t surprising that she ends up on the sofa of a morning TV show, knowing that her stalker will be watching.

The reader is pulled into this fast-paced psychological thriller at heady speed. Rosie’s Instagram account lends the book a contemporary vibe – so much so that I found myself looking up the link – and it worked! Chapters alternate points of view between a cast of characters – large but manageable for the reader giving it multiple points of interest and possible suspects. As the story unfolds, the stalker sends pictures taken from the inside of her apartment.

Your Every Move: Sub-Plots

Sub-plots are also based on real world happenings. They include shady Russian dealings in the London property market for the purpose of money laundering as well as office affairs of the heart, creating plenty of intrigue. All of the characters are so well drawn, I could see this book as a mini Netflix series.

For me, the author’s note at the end, creating a book within a book, was simply genius – as was the inclusion of factual evidence (eg hyperlinks to the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and the Ask for Angela campaign) and references to Corvus Books and the literary agent Simon Trewin, At this point, the reader has to pause and check is this real or fiction!