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The Beresford Kindle Edition

by Will Carver (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Everything stays the same for the tenants of The Beresford, a grand old apartment building just outside the city … until the doorbell rings… Will Carver returns with an eerie, deliciously and uncomfortably dark standalone thriller.

'A gripping novel laced with humour and cutting character insight … a thrill from start to finish. Expect the unexpected!' Sarah Pinborough

'Equally enthralling and appalling … unlike anything I've read in a very long while' James Oswald

'Ridiculously addictive' S J Watson

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Just outside the city – any city, every city – is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford.

There's a routine at The Beresford.

For Mrs May, every day's the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building.

Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate, Sythe, no longer does. Because Abe just killed him.

In exactly sixty seconds, Blair Conroy will ring the doorbell to her new home and Abe will answer the door. They will become friends. Perhaps lovers.

And, when the time comes for one of them to die, as is always the case at The Beresford, there will be sixty seconds to move the body before the next unknowing soul arrives at the door.

Because nothing changes at The Beresford, until the doorbell rings…

Eerie, dark, superbly twisted and majestically plotted, The Beresford is the stunning standalone thriller from one of crime fiction's most exciting names.

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'Creepy and brilliant' Khurrum Rahman

'Reminiscent of The Shining … a creeping and perfectly crafted novel tinged with dark humour and malice' Victoria Selman

'A masterfully macabre tale' Louise Mumford

'I stepped into the imagination of Will Carver and it swallowed me whole' Matt Wesolowski

'Magnificently, compulsively chilling' Margaret Kirk

'Fans of Chuck Palahniuk will adore Carver … he is utterly brilliant' Christopher Hooley

'Devilishly dark and maniacally brilliant' Raven Crime Reads

'Slick, stylish ... a sharply crafted and delectable slice of entertaining darkness' The Tattooed Book Geek

'Intense, brilliant, horrific, humorous and everything in between' Liz Loves Books

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"Wackily entertaining, wicked and naughty but not short on insight into the human animal, a strange, dangerous and contrary beast!" —NB Magazine

"Carver writes in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, but with added grue. Shocking, compulsive and persuasive. It’s one hell of a ride for those of a mind to jump aboard." —Ian Rankin

"This high-concept standalone thriller is darkly comic and superbly twisted. Unpredictable and exciting, no thriller fan can afford to miss such a devilishly good read." —Sunday Express S Magazine

About the Author

Will Carver is the internationally bestselling author of the January David series. He spent his early years in Germany but returned to the UK at age eleven when his sporting career took off. He turned down a professional rugby contract to study theatre and television at King Alfred’s, Winchester, where he set up a successful theatre company. He currently runs his own fitness and nutrition company.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08WRMCLVQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ ORENDA BOOKS (May 22, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 22, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2292 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 393 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,007,480 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,774 in City Life Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,933 in Occult Suspense
- #2,664 in City Life Fiction (Books)

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My books are often referred to as either 'LITERARY CRIME NOVELS' or I am told that they 'DEFY GENRE', which makes them difficult to put on a shelf. They tend to sit on the edge of crime fiction, pushing the boundaries in different ways, each time.

They have been long listed/shortlisted for the AMAZON Readers Independent Voice Award, GOLDSBORO Books Glass Bell Award, NOT The Booker, THEAKSTON'S Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award and the FINGERPRINT Genre-Busting Book of the Year Award, as well as being selected as books of the year in the mainstream press.

My next book is UPSTAIRS AT THE BERESFORD (Novemebr 9th), a prequel to THE BERESFORD, which straddles the CRIME/HORROR genres. It's a dark but humorous story about the guests and residents of Hotel Beresford and the mysterious Mr Balliol, who lives in the penthouse, watching over everything and everyone.

THE BERESFORD is currently in development for TV.

Click FOLLOW on here so you don't miss out on my next book – I write a lot.

If you would like to get in contact, I can usually be found on TWITTER/X @will_carver but who knows how long that will last..?

You could always check out my website where you can join the MAILING LIST to stay updated with deals and competitions and which EVENTS I will be attending throughout the year. (There are also many hidden easter eggs within the site, just as there are in my books. Feel free to click around and see what you find.)

I live in Reading with my partner, our five kids and a tortoise.

Recently, I have also become a podcaster and present the LET'S GET LIT podcast with fellow writer SJ Watson, where we discuss books and writing each week while sharing a drink. (Find us wherever you get your podcasts from.)

Oh, and just in case TWITTER implodes, I can also be found here...

FACEBOOK - @WillCarverAuthor

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Mark

Enjoyable Interesting Read

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2023

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Well written, flows well and reads well!
Interesting concept and interesting characters - didn't end the way I thought and an interesting little twist at the end.
Would have liked a little more about what's up with the upper floors though, kinda just given a very short peek and no real explanation.

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Sharon Fabian

Wow!! Could not put this down!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023

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Fast paced twisty mystery with something for everyone. So different than 95% of all mystery/thrillers out there. From the first pages you find yourself rooting for murderers to get away with their crimes and you're on an intoxicating adventure that raises big questions about the meaning of life, death, dreams, God, the Devil, and spirituality before it leaves you with an ending you could not have predicted.

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MamaTick

Quirky to the point of annoyance

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2023

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I enjoyed the quirkiness of the book, however, I found myself not liking any of the characters so much that I didn't care if I finished it or not.

I found it predictable, but in a way I almost cheered for some of the tenants, but they found a way to disappoint in utterly predictable ways.

Also, it just ended. No resolution, no cliffhanger (at least not one I care about).

Read of you like quirky, but not because you like the characters. But then again, you might. I didn't.

Do not recommend.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2021

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I loved this book. It was fast paced, easy to read and held my interest throughout the entire book. I will definitely be looking for more from this author.

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Lynn

Didn't Finish

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022

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I read about 75% of this, then I realized I was forcing myself to read it and I no longer cared how it ended.

While the writing was good and the first 35% or so was intriguing, the story just started to feel repetitive.

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Randy Bates

Creepy good!

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2021

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I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. I'm glad I didn't. Each page, each chapter was a surprise and a revelation. Great book. It had an old school classic horror feel about it. I don't want to give away the story, so ill just say this is a book to be read of you like the horror genre. Great story!

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thomas tomazic

Almost a great story

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022

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Loved the quirky retemise. Hated that it felt too drawn out at times. Also, and I'm taking an educated guess, the author is British truing to write / appeal to American writing style.

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Nancy

Horror is not my thing…

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2021

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Horror has not been not my thing since the 1970s when I read all the HP Lovecraft I could get my hands on. I lived in Providence, RI, a short walk from the setting of so many of his stories. I have followed Will Carver since his first Detective Pace book. Each book has gotten darker and more disturbing. That said, this standalone book is worthy for its creepy atmosphere and twisty plot. It pulled me in. I got attached to some of the characters and what happened to them all was the stuff of nightmares. But do we really need 3 characters who masturbate for recreation? I believe the author has another Detective Pace book on the way and I look forward to seeing where he goes with that.

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T. Hallam

Entertaining with enough twists to carry you through

Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2023

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I enjoyed this book. It surprised me.

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dreadful

Reviewed in Australia on August 7, 2023

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one corpse to hack, saw, burn, then two, then three… When is it going to stop? I will never know, as reading this book is simply degrading.

JeffM

What do you want?

Reviewed in Canada on March 5, 2022

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The story I thought I wanted from this book was not the one I got. What I got was better. It's a good story, told with dark, underlying humor. A good read for fans of Stephen King or Clive Barker. Will Carver has crafted a tale of souls lost and sold that will keep you engaged to the last page.

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Mrs Sarah Farmer-Wright

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2022

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OMG!!! What the heck have I just read??!!!
What a book! This is the first of Will Carver’s books that I have read and whatever I was expecting it wasn’t this. I mean I’d read that his books are “quirky” but there’s quirky and then there is QUIRKY, and this book most definitely falls into the latter camp for me.
The Beresford is a standalone novel about an apartment building where the rent is dirt cheap. The landlady is Mrs May, cold and emotionally detached but a seemingly innocent old lady who enjoys pruning her roses, afternoon napping and imbibing in her wine; but you’d better watch out as, quite frankly, she makes Daphne du Maurier’s Mrs Danvers look like Tinkerbell!
The tenants all have a common denominator in that they are all trying to escape from their own personal problems and The Beresford seems to provide the haven they are looking for – if only they knew they were stepping into a hellish purgatory of sorts in which they are neither safe nor belong.
At The Beresford things are seriously off kilter, things are radically wrong. People are being killed and within 60 seconds the body must be moved before the next unwitting tenant rings the doorbell – and that’s when everything changes. But what is it that makes a killer out of someone? And who will be next?
This is not for the faint hearted – it’s dark, macabre, twisted, gruesome, grisly, eerie, sinister and very creepy BUT despite this there are oases of black humour which seem to lift the book somehow. It’s very clever and quite brilliant – I thoroughly enjoyed it! (if that’s not too weird to say…).
I’m looking forward to reading the rest of Will Carver’s books.

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