Gideon Book Review - Gideon by Russell Andrews

Gideon starts off with a mysterious confession and an equally mysterious suicide of an unknown character. Then Russell Andrews takes us back a month, where we get to meet the main character of Carl Granville. Carl is a struggling writer with the great American novel just waiting to get published. When he is hired to ghost write a mysterious book from a diary, where the names, places and other vital information has been deleted.When his editor is murdered and her publishing house knows nothing about the book, he is soon the main suspect. More murders and they all seem to point to Carl as the murderer, forces him to go on the run to escape the police and the real killers who are trying to eliminate him too.He teams up with his ex girlfriend in search of the truth behind the diary in order to clear his name and stop the real killers. Without giving up the storyline, Carl and Amanda are soon searching the south for a midwife, who may be the only person who knows the truth behind
the diary and all the murders that lay in Carl's wake.I picked up this book, because of another Andrews book I read a few week ago - Aphrodite- and I am glad that I did. This book had me hooked from the very beginning, the main characters are likeable, and the bad guys are bad, but not infallible or indestructible. The characters behind the scenes are kept pretty secretive and only as the story moves along are we made privy to the real reasons and secrets.Reading this book was like peeling an onion, layer by layer, until the whole truth was revealed with a great climax. Russell Andrews has now become one of my favorite authors and I am looking forward to reading his other novel - Icarus, which I can only hope is as good as his first two books.

View this post on my blog: http://www.yourgamebook.com/gideon-book-review-gideon-by-russell-andrews.html