The Beresford by Will Carver

From Goodreads

Everything stays the same for the tenants of The Beresford, a grand old apartment building just outside the city … until the doorbell rings… Will Carver returns with an eerie, deliciously and uncomfortably dark standalone thriller.

‘A gripping novel laced with humour and cutting character insight … a thrill from start to finish. Expect the unexpected!' Sarah Pinborough

‘Equally enthralling and appalling … unlike anything I’ve read in a very long while’ James Oswald

‘Ridiculously addictive’ S J Watson

Synopsis

Just outside the city – any city, every city – is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford.

There’s a routine at The Beresford.

For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building.

Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate, Sythe, no longer does. Because Abe just killed him. 

In exactly sixty seconds, Blair Conroy will ring the doorbell to her new home and Abe will answer the door. They will become friends. Perhaps lovers. 

And, when the time comes for one of them to die, as is always the case at The Beresford, there will be sixty seconds to move the body before the next unknowing soul arrives at the door.

Because nothing changes at The Beresford, until the doorbell rings…

My thoughts

Enter between the covers of this book if you dare!!  This is definitely not a book for the faint hearted reader as it will make you gasp and wonder what you the reader have let yourself in for in more ways than one.

Having previously read and quite enjoyed Nothing Important Happened Today (Detective Sergeant Pace #2) by this Author.  I have yet to read the first in the series The Good Samaritans.  Wyres World: Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver

I borrowed a copy of this standalone psychological horror thriller from my local Library.  This is more than just a thriller it's like a psychological horror story too.  I gave this a 5 stars or 10/10.

Mrs May is the owner landlady of The Beresford, this is a property with rooms to let that most people given a bit of foresight would avoid like the plague.  Sadly for some tenants they weren't able to look into the future or they too would have avoided taking up a tenancy there.  

With a fast moving abundance of tenants The Beresford proves a very popular place to live.  Why are the tenants fast moving, you may ask?  To answer that question then you need to grab a copy of this tense, yet humourous at times story that crosses many genres.  It will have you gripped and turning the short addictive chapters wanting to know more .....

I had a head teacher at my primary school called Mrs May and as I was reading this book every time her name was mentioned I tended to see her as the character.  I doubt that she would have got up to what Mrs May the owner of The Beresford got up to or I hope she wouldn't have done.  Mind you older people can be quite manipulative when they want to be!  Mrs May in this story was a very manipulative landlady indeed.

'Eerie, dark, superbly twisted and majestically plotted, The Beresford is the stunning standalone thriller from one of crime fiction’s most exciting names.'  This quote sums the story up well.