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New thriller 'The Unseen' from Elsewhen Press

'The Unseen' is now available on Kindle and will be released shortly in paperback. My new novel is a psychological thriller about the increasingly unreal events affecting John Mason when he moves to an idyllic country cottage near a village on the edge of Epping Forest, a year after the death of his wife Judith. Written in the first person with an increasingly unreliable narrator, the nightmarish scenario of sexual tension, guilt and growing madness is unsettling and ultimately horrific.

'Ex-advertising man John Mason is driving to the small town of Hambleford to view a cottage that is for sale, when he is caught in a sudden hailstorm. It brings back memories of the crash a year before in which he lost his wife Judith; a crash caused by a woman in white standing in the middle of the road – a woman who was nowhere to be found after the accident. As the hailstorm lashes his car he has a vision of her, with empty eyes and a silent screaming mouth. John had been having regular dreams about her ever since the crash, but lately they have been replaced by dreams of an idyllic cottage on a hillside like the one in which Judith had wanted them to live. John is special – he sees things that others can’t. Since childhood he’s had strange experiences but has tried to shut them out; now he thinks Judith is trying to contact him, that she’s been sending his mind images of the house where her spirit will join him again, and that Pine Cottage in Hambleford is literally the cottage of his dreams.
But things aren’t all as they appear and John quickly becomes convinced that a spirit other than Judith is trying to manipulate him.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unseen-Dave-Weaver-ebook/dp/B01ES0KVHO/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1464882006&sr=1-3

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