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A review by herreadingroom
The Beresford by Will Carver
4.0
OMG!!! What the heck have I just read??!!!
What a book! This is the first of Will Carver’s books that I have read and whatever I was expecting it wasn’t this. I mean I’d read that his books are “quirky” but there’s quirky and then there is QUIRKY, and this book most definitely falls into the latter camp for me.
The Beresford is a standalone novel about an apartment building where the rent is dirt cheap. The landlady is Mrs May, cold and emotionally detached but a seemingly innocent old lady who enjoys pruning her roses, afternoon napping and imbibing in her wine; but you’d better watch out as, quite frankly, she makes Daphne du Maurier’s Mrs Danvers look like Tinkerbell!
The tenants all have a common denominator in that they are all trying to escape from their own personal problems and The Beresford seems to provide the haven they are looking for – if only they knew they were stepping into a hellish purgatory of sorts in which they are neither safe nor belong.
At The Beresford things are seriously off kilter, things are radically wrong. People are being killed and within 60 seconds the body must be moved before the next unwitting tenant rings the doorbell – and that’s when everything changes. But what is it that makes a killer out of someone? And who will be next?
This is not for the faint hearted – it’s dark, macabre, twisted, gruesome, grisly, eerie, sinister and very creepy BUT despite this there are oases of black humour which seem to lift the book somehow. It’s very clever and quite brilliant – I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I’m looking forward to reading the rest of Will Carver’s books.
What a book! This is the first of Will Carver’s books that I have read and whatever I was expecting it wasn’t this. I mean I’d read that his books are “quirky” but there’s quirky and then there is QUIRKY, and this book most definitely falls into the latter camp for me.
The Beresford is a standalone novel about an apartment building where the rent is dirt cheap. The landlady is Mrs May, cold and emotionally detached but a seemingly innocent old lady who enjoys pruning her roses, afternoon napping and imbibing in her wine; but you’d better watch out as, quite frankly, she makes Daphne du Maurier’s Mrs Danvers look like Tinkerbell!
The tenants all have a common denominator in that they are all trying to escape from their own personal problems and The Beresford seems to provide the haven they are looking for – if only they knew they were stepping into a hellish purgatory of sorts in which they are neither safe nor belong.
At The Beresford things are seriously off kilter, things are radically wrong. People are being killed and within 60 seconds the body must be moved before the next unwitting tenant rings the doorbell – and that’s when everything changes. But what is it that makes a killer out of someone? And who will be next?
This is not for the faint hearted – it’s dark, macabre, twisted, gruesome, grisly, eerie, sinister and very creepy BUT despite this there are oases of black humour which seem to lift the book somehow. It’s very clever and quite brilliant – I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I’m looking forward to reading the rest of Will Carver’s books.