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| Original Title: | A Pleasure and a Calling ASIN B00JI0W6SM |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | England |
Phil Hogan
Kindle Edition | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.51 | 3963 Users | 673 Reviews
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You won't remember Mr Heming. He showed you round your comfortable home, suggested a sustainable financial package, negotiated a price with the owner and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key.That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine?
The answer to that is, he has the keys to them all.
William Heming's every pleasure is in his leafy community. He loves and knows every inch of it, feels nurtured by it, and would defend it - perhaps not with his life but if it came to it, with yours...
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| Title | : | A Pleasure and a Calling |
| Author | : | Phil Hogan |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | January 6th 2015 by Picador (first published June 25th 2014) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Mystery Thriller. Psychological Thriller. Suspense. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.51 From 3963 Users | 673 ReviewsAssess Containing Books A Pleasure and a Calling
An interesting premise but I think there could have been a lot more done with this concept. Theres an obsession that William latches onto which quickly dissipates by the end of the story, making me wonder what the point of building up the tension was for. I also thought he made a lot of stupid mistakes that makes it a little hard to believe he was able to get away with this for so long. His background story added to the creepiness but Im not sure if it showed much depth to his character. I thinkReview originally published at Learn This Phrase.William Heming is an estate agent in a pleasant, leafy and very middle-class English town. He is an unassuming man whom nobody notices - he is charming but forgettable, a consummate salesman who specialises in finding his customers their dream homes and then quietly slipping back into the shadows, unremembered. And that's exactly the way he likes it, because he has a secret: he has kept a set of keys for every property he has ever dealt with. A
3.5 starsWilliam Heming seems like a righteous man at first but looks can be oh so deceiving and dont I love it! That hidden side of people is so fascinating to discover and whats better than a voyeuristic side of ones personality to explore? His voyeurism doesnt apply to people though, theres no funny business, but he likes to look at peoples lives and homes.. the things that really tell a story about them. Now if youre following the voyeur around, do you become one yourself then too :-)? I
4 and a half stars!Wow what an unusual and creepy book this was. I really enjoyed reading it and it was definitely a book that kept me up at night, both trying to read more and through some weird dreams that I had after reading it.I think the thing that most struck me about this book is that this could actually happen. How many people change their locks on moving into a new house, how many old owners of a house keep the key to their old houses and how many estate agents get rid of the keys
EXCERPT: It's easy to say,now, that I wish I'd drawn a line under 4 Boselle Avenue, but there are some things you cannot let go. Certainly there was something about the man with the small incontinent dog that continued to rankle. Perhaps I felt that my honor - the town's honor - had not been quite satisfied. Or maybe I was still in the grip of excitement after the disappointment of the farcically unreliable Cooksons earlier that day. But in the great chain of things - and in view of what
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. I was enticed in by the clever title and the front cover, and wasn't disappointed to find that both the narrator and his story were equally as creepy and clever as my initial reaction had predicted. The story is original, and I enjoyed getting to know Heming's backstory, though perhaps it would have been structurally more interesting to weave the backstory into the main plot. I found myself wanting to hurry through the opening chapters to get to the main plot. Highly
The intruder, by P. S. HoganBLURBHe 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...William Heming is an estate agent. Hes kept a copy of every key to every house hes 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?MY THOUGHTSHe's certainly creepy is our Mr Hemining, or William, to his
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