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  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784163877
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

The Intruder

The most unsettling sociopath you’ll meet this year





Who has the key to your house? A sinister, creepy, entirely original novel from the most sociopathic narrator of 2018.

He has the key to hundreds of houses.
Maybe even to yours.

A gripping, sinister, deeply unsettling novel from the most sociopathic narrator of 2018. Meet Mr Heming...

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William Heming is an estate agent. He’s kept a copy of every key to every house he’s ever sold. Sometimes he visits them. He lets himself in when the owners are out. But what will happen if he gets caught?

What will he do next?

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'Wonderfully creepy ... a deeply unsettling and original hero' Rosamund Lupton, author of Sister

A superbly plotted and genuinely creepy novel' Sunday Express

'A brilliant read, almost unbearably tense at times' Daily Mail

'I loved it - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant' Sophie Hannah, author of Did You See Melody?

'A wonderfully sinister fable of property and obsession' Observer

'One to watch: an eerie page-turner' Cathy Rentzenbrink

*Previously published as A Pleasure and A Calling*

  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784163877
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

Praise for The Intruder

I loved it - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant!

Sophie Hannah, author of 'Did You See Melody?'

A wonderfully creepy voice, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero.

Rosamund Lupton, author of 'Sister'

A brilliant read, almost unbearably tense at times.

Daily Mail

Very clever. A creepily alluring voice.

Julia Crouch

A wonderfully sinister fable of property and obsession.

Observer

Brims with wry wit and taut tension [and] delivers one surprise after another.

The New York Times

One to watch: an eerie page-turner.

Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller

Brilliantly creepy

Observer

You'll definitely want to change your locks after reading this original and darkly funny novel that will send shivers down your spine.

Stylist

Another unreliable narrator we really should not be siding, but who proves so engaging that we can't help but go along for the ride in this gripping, thrilling novel.

David Barrnett, Independent on Sunday

There is a delicious feeling of complicity in his misdemeanours: Heming gets in side your head as easily as he gets into his neighbours' houses... a superbly plotted and genuinely creepy novel. it deserves to be a bestseller.

Sunday Express

A creepy and unexpected tale that will remain with the reader long after the book is finished.

The Star

The first-person portrayal of a truly cold-blooded protagonist is a hard thing to pull off, especially one whose outward appearance is so benign but Phil Hogan has created an antihero horrifically ruthless and disquieting.

Guardian

Seriously creepy!

Emma Curtis, author of 'One Little Mistake'
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