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Then again, I had the excuse of knowing that this was a story about tinnitus. Tinnitus as the theme of a thriller? Surely not ...
This is not your common or garden variety of tinnitus, but one which has devastating symptoms and a lethal outcome. The main protagonists find themselves caught up in a race against time to find a way out of their terrifying situation.
Equally the parochial start point gives no hint of the much larger stage on which the plot is ultimately played out. By the end, I found myself glued to my chair and unable to break away until the story's dramatic climax provides a highly satisfying - and emotional - dénouement. A cup of hot tea soon cleared the lump in my throat.
Simon Mayo recently moved from the BBC to Greatest Hits Radio. On the afternoon of my finishing Tick Tock, and with the voices of its characters still ringing in my ears, it was more than a little spooky to then turn on the radio to hear Mr Mayo introducing The Beatles singing Paperback Writer ...
What makes a really great page-turner? The clues are all here ... Peter James is a highly-successful author, his Roy Grace series of thrillers having been adapted for TV, with eight two-hour episodes now featuring on ITV.
Lessons by Ian McEwan
The Noise by James Patterson and J D Barker
Snow Country is a very moving novel, epic in its historical scope and charged with Faulks' unique intellectual, spiritual and emotional intelligence. It's tempting to try to anatomize how he achieves such a potent mix of narrative effects ...
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
