20 Minutes on the Tube (20 Minutes #1) by Daniel Hurst
Genre: Psychological thriller, Quick Read, Novella
Read: 9th February 2025
Published: 7th February 2020
★★★★★ 5 stars
DESCRIPTION:
20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 different reasons to be underground...
Louise didn't plan on stealing until she realised she could get away with it. Anke gave her husband a second chance but now she wants revenge. Valentin has an urge to kill and is using his commute to find his first victim.
Danielle doesn't know who the father is. Joe fears that his past will catch up with him. Aaliyah wants to finish her shift but someone just went under her train...
Secrets. Lies. Terror. Death. It's just another morning on the tube.
MY THOUGHTS:
An unusual and unique concept telling the individual stories of twenty different characters - some linked, some not - on the London Tube in the morning rush hour. Some of the stories connected with others, while others were unique and like transport network they branched off into other little stories.
I read the prequel "20 Minutes Earlier" in just over an hour the night before so the following day I picked up this one and devoured it in the course of the day. Once I started reading I couldn't stop. And as soon as I finished this one I wanted to start the next, but real life prevented me.
We meet up with Jelena, Harry, April and Bogdan again, along with sixteen others - some of whose stories intertwine with these and some who introduce a new one. I especially like the stories of Harry and Will (no, not the royals) as well as Jelena's and newcomer Carol. And the unique perspective of Aaliyah! I can't wait to see what's in store for them all next!
The chapters are twenty in total, each one person and their story, and covers 20 minutes of the morning commute and for each of them. I think it's best if one goes into this series blind so I will refrain from giving away too much but it is unique and enthralling. And it makes you think...you never know who or what the person you are sitting next to are going through...
Next...20 Minutes Later
MEET THE AUTHOR:
He has been employed in several glamorous roles in his lifetime, including bartending, shelf stacking and procurement administration, all while based in some of the most exotic places on the planet, like Bolton, Preston and South London.
Daniel writes psychological thrillers and loves to tell tales about unusual things happening to normal people. He has written all his life, making the progression from handing scribbled stories to his parents as a boy to writing full length novels in his thirties. He lives in the North West of England and when he isn’t writing, he is usually watching a game of football in a pub where his wife can’t find him.
Since following his lifelong passion for writing in 2020, he has amassed a loyal and devoted set of readers, and regularly has several books in the top 100 of the Psychological Thriller Charts on Amazon. His title The Passenger became the #1 selling psychological thriller in the UK in October 2021. The Doctor's Wife is his first publication with Bookouture.
A prolific writer, Daniel likes to keep readers on their toes by self publishing even more books in between those released through his publisher.
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