The Intrusions

by Stav Sherez

Overview

It’s Always Watching…

A distressed young woman arrives at the police station claiming her friend has been abducted, and that the man threatened to return and “claim her next.” Detectives Carrigan and Miller are drawn into a terrifying new world of cyberstalking—where the threat of online intimidation, hacking, and control is ever-present, and disturbing contemporary themes and dark psychology are explored with Stav Sherez’s customary skill.

Under scrutiny themselves, and with old foes and enmities re-surfacing, how long will Carrigan and Miller have to find out the truth behind what these two women have been subjected to?

An all-too-plausible entry into a terrifying new world just reaching the public mind—in which a computer can turn against its owner with the push of a button—The Intrusions shows how easy it can be to become an unwilling victim to the new generation of stalkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609456207
Publisher:	Europa Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/17/2020
Series:	Carrigan and Miller , #3
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	569,402
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stav Sherez is the author of The Devil's Playground (2004) (shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger) and The Black Monastery (2009), and won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award for The Intrusions, the third novel of the Carrigan & Miller series after A Dark Redemption (2012) and Eleven Days (2013). He has written for the Daily Telegraph and The Catholic Herald amongst others. He lives and works in London.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

" A Silence of the Lambs for the internet age." - Ian Rankin

"Stav Sherez is a master storyteller and a brilliant stylist … and Geneva Miller is fast becoming my favourite fictional female detective since Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison." - Erin Kelly

"Brilliant, chilling, satisfying and beautifully written. His best yet." - Mark Edwards

"Sherez is a fantastic writer... A gripping read from start to finish." - Alex Marwood

"Absolutely brilliant and so cutting edge. The Intrusions enthralls and alarms in equal measure." - Mick Herron



"The best yet of a great series, totally gripping and scary as hell." - Claire McGowan

"A great read. Gritty and soulful and bleakly beautiful." - David Mark

"A brilliant, bruising thriller - nobody writes the unseen London like Sherez. Another triumph!" - Eva Dolan

"Sherez writes consistently high quality crime novels... The Intrusions is his best book to date." - Sarah Ward

"Carrigan and Miller are back and about time. What’s more The Intrusions is the best of series so far – Stav Sherez has constructed an intelligent and gripping story set in a strange and disturbing version of London. There are reasons why Sherez is so highly regarded among crime writers – and they’re all on display here."- William Ryan

"Typically great ... Brilliantly written, fascinating on technology and with a real emotional punch."- Chris Ewan

"Bloody brilliant, I couldn't put it down.'- Martyn Waites

Editorial Reviews

2020-08-19
Think the life you live online is secret and secure? Think again.

Still facing awkward questions and possible legal action from internal affairs over their handling of their last case in Eleven Days (2013), DI Geneva Miller and DI Jack Carrigan, of London’s Metropolitan Police, face another aborning nightmare when Madison Carter reports that someone drugged both her and her German-born housemate, Anna Becker, an aspiring actress, at The Last Good Kiss, a nightclub they both frequented, and kidnapped Anna. Pulled off the missing person case to investigate a murder, Miller realizes that the victim is Anna Becker, her throat surgically punctured and her body carefully posed after she was pumped full of drugs designed not so much to control as to torment her. The initial focus of Miller and Carrigan’s inquiries on the Milgram, the youth hostel where Anna and Madison both lived, is sharpened once they connect Anna’s murder to the disappearance of Milgram resident Katrina Eliot after she left a bowling alley the year before. Following the slender leads they unearth slowly and methodically, they examine the victims’ links to a temporary employment agency, a murder years ago on a beach in Bali, and, most chillingly, their online activity. Both of the victims, along with hundreds of others, have been subjected to spying by someone who’s hacked their computers, taken control of their cameras and databases, and turned their private lives into commodities for sale to other like-minded voyeurs. As Miller and Carrigan’s pursuit gathers momentum, each new lead falls short of explaining everything but pulls them onward inexorably to the next.

A paranoid, deeply unsettling page-turner best read on a digital device capable of tracking every eye movement.

Kirkus Reviews