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House 23

House 23, September 2016
by Eli Yance

Skyhorse
Featuring: Joseph Lee
208 pages
ISBN: 1940456746
EAN: 9781940456744
Kindle: B01H0829JE
Paperback / e-Book
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"How well do you really know your neighbors?"

Fresh Fiction Review

House 23
Eli Yance

Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted December 19, 2016

Thriller Psychological

Joseph Lee is a ruined man. He watched his wife gunned down right in front of him on Christmas Day and just cannot seem to move past the horror, pain, and depression. That is why it is a good thing that his wife was pretty rich and left everything to him in her will. Still, Joseph just cannot move past it. He never leaves the house and even has groceries and anything else he needs delivered to the house. Then, one day, his doorbell rings. This is a very unexpected and startling thing because no one ever comes to his house save for the occasional delivery. Half unsettled and half curious, he opens the door to find a very attractive and smiling couple. They tell him that they are his new neighbors and have come to introduce themselves. Joseph could manage to get past the fact that these strangers are coming to his house, but what he cannot manage is that the woman looks eerily like his deceased wife. Their names are Riso and Zala and they have come to invite him to a barbecue at their house. Joseph does not seem to be able to say no, so he agrees to come to their house later that evening. This is the beginning of a very strange and intense journey for Joseph because he has no idea what is to come. By the time he does understand, he knows that he has to find the courage to fight for his life if he is ever going to survive this. HOUSE 23 is a mind bending, psychological, suspense-filled tale of a man who is already at his wit's end when a nightmare lands at his front door. Eli Yance has crafted a unique, head scratching plot that cannot help but draw you into the story and carry you along with Joseph as he strives to solve a mystery while also walking away with his life. I became so enthralled with the events of HOUSE 23, that I really did feel as if I was a part of the story. If you enjoy books that keep you up at night until you have reached that final page and have the outcome firmly in place, HOUSE 23 is for you. There is all of the mystery and creepiness that you could hope for as you try to keep up with what is happening. Pick up a copy of HOUSE 23 today and join the solving of this rather dark story.

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SUMMARY

A psychological thriller that pits a community against a man, and that man against himself. Joseph Lee lost his wife, the love of his life. She was slain in their home, right under his nose. As if the grief weren’t enough, Lee was also blamed for her murder. At the end of the day, the detectives didn’t have any proof that Lee was the murderer, but that didn’t stop the community from shunning him or his friends and family from cutting him out of their lives. They didn’t need proof, they said. Left to stew in his own self-loathing, a miserable existence of solitude and narcotics, Lee is alone with his regrets and his remorse. But his life is about to change—there is hope yet for this hopeless man. A beautiful woman who looks uncannily like his deceased wife moves into the vacant house across the road, sparking something in Joseph Lee that he thought was long dead. But after the light at the end of the tunnel, there is even more darkness for Lee. This beautiful lookalike, and the house she now calls home, are hiding terrible secrets that will unravel everything Lee thought he knew about himself, his neighbors, and his deceased wife.


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