Do Not Disturb: An addictive psychological thriller

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Guests start to arrive and Kirsty has the feeling that all is not as it should be, and then a body is found. I really enjoyed the narration, and am impressed at how easily I told the characters apart. Nice work with the differentiation. The characters each have their own secrets and it's fun to guess at who is hiding what. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way and Claire Douglas has an excellent eye and turn of phrase towards creating divisive and engaging characters. This is true here too and is one of the huge strengths of " Do Not Disturb " as motivations and inner truths are cleverly obfuscated.

She places the blame, devastatingly, at the feet of the tall, thin, reedy-voiced Kagame, suggesting….the leader routinely labelled in the West as the man who ended the genocide, might actually also have started it.”At the same time as she was washing the blood off her hands, the doorbell rang and it was Deputy Scott Dwyer, her boyfriend when they were in high school. He had paid a visit to the house regarding a noise disturbance, coming from their home, but Quinn reassures him that she had been watching a horror movie with the sound turned up while her husband was working. Having read Claire Douglas previous books “The Sisters” and “Last seen alive” I am very honoured and excited to get a copy of “ Do not disturb” from Netgalley in exchange for a review. Once upon a time there were two boys growing up in Uganda. Their mothers were friends and they attended the same secondary school. The older was a bright, confident and gregarious lad who went on to study law at the nation’s most famous university. The younger was an awkward character, hard-working but filled with suppressed rage, who sneaked on classmates and was suspended for fighting before ending up among street boys scratching a living in Kampala. The magazine was once edited by now Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose opinion on colonialism in Africa, is that “the continent might be a blot, but it is not a blot upon our conscience. The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge anymore.” A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide

But when the guesthouse is ready to be occupied, Kirsty encounters the last person she ever expected to see: her estranged cousin Selena. It has been seventeen years since they last talked—when Selena tore everything apart between them. It is part of what the genocide scholar, Gregory Stanton, described as the ten stages of genocide, starting with “the classification of the population, symbolisation of those classifications, discrimination of the targeted group, dehumanisation of the pariah group.” There was something about Serena that irked me the minute she stepped inside the B&B. Nothing I was immediately able to put my finger on but you could just feel the atmosphere change in a heartbeat and I didn’t trust her at all. That said though, things didn’t at all pan out the way I expected them to. As I might have mentioned I love the idea of starting anew somewhere and running a B&B really appeals to me so I felt for Kirsty when her dreams started to go wrong. The fact she tries hard to hold everything together and keep everyone happy made me warm to her as did her obvious love for her kids. I found myself hoping for a good ending for her even though I had a feeling early on that this wouldn’t happen.A must read on Rwanda. Add this to Anjan Sundaram's "Bad News" and you can get a good view of what modern Rwanda is really like aside from the usual PR nonsense put out by people who don't look behind the curtain. The evil that this mafia state commits is so great that no one book can give it adequate coverage, but Wrong covers the main low points. The average citizen of this police state is the one being crushed, and those who claim to love the country but say nothing about its oppression are hypocrites. Mistake Number Four? My attempt to read yet another of Ms Douglas's novels. Well, I do like to give the benefit of the doubt, but that's it - no more. I've almost reached my one third place and I give up as this is truly, truly awful The notion of the reticent, self-effacing Paul Kagame, bombastically boasting about his city, is risible at best. I should be surprised anymore. This guy is the most consistent author out there and my personal favorite at this point. Never a dull book.

I Really enjoyed "Do Not Disturb" this was my second book by this particular author and out of the two this one was my hands down favourite. If you love your thrillers to be pacy, dark, full of intrigue and deception, with juicy twists, then Do Not Disturb is the book for you! What, one wonders, would The Spectator make of the scenario, as in the case of Rwanda, where “ethnic enmities” were unheard of, until the colonisers arrived there? What if the “diabolical” crises were the result not of the leaving, but of the coming of the colonisers?Kagame made his old schoolmate his external intelligence chief. Wrong portrays Karegeya as an accomplished manipulator of foreign politicians in maintaining the saviour myth, even as he grew disillusioned with political repression and killings. Throughout the book's entirety, the author teases readers with Bates Hotel comparisons; keeping readers in wait for that famously gruesome shower scene. None of the reviewers seem to find it at least a reason for pause, that so much of the book appears to have been all but narrated by disgruntled individuals, many of whom found their Democratic credentials, the moment a date to stand before a judge on charges of corruption, was set for them.

Later that night, the Motel Ace is overrun with psychotic killer clowns, going room to room and brutally murdering every occupant. Lacey and Colton hear the noises and rationalize it as being anything from domestic disputes to rowdy sex - when it reality, the clowns are making their way ever closer to their room.This book was a ton of fun, and the way Jon Athan describes things is perfecto! I love this authors work and own everything by him.