The Last House on Needless Street is about Ted Bannerman, a loner who lives in the house at the end of the cul-de-sac that is Needless Street. It’s the house he grew up in with his mother. Sometimes he goes into the woods behind the house, sometimes he uses a dating website to meet women but theres never a second date.

The Last House on Needless Street is also about Olivia, Ted’s cat, and Lauren, Ted’s daughter, who occasionally visits Ted at the house. Ted’s relationship with each is sometimes volatile. Olivia is a target when he’s drunk and Lauren is a captive ward whose warmth towards her father seems to hide other motivations.

A looming presence in Ted’s life is the memory of his mother, a disgraced nurse, a huge presence in his life, someone he can’t quite live up to. Then there’s Dee a woman who’s searching for the person who kidnapped her sister when they were children and at the minute she has her suspicions about Ted.

If I say anything else, I am going to give everything away. This novel oozes mistrust, and with every sentence, you know, as the reader, that there is a deeper story that you are not seeing, but only getting glimpses of. It adds to the desire to turn the page wonderfully the suspense continually builds with each chapter, I was desperate to find out what what going on.

The multiple points of view presented allow us to see each character’s thoughts on particular scenes, but we are still left wanting more information about what is going on, finding questions and hungering for answers. I did not think I would love the perspective of a Cat in an adult novel so much but the way it is written here add so much to story, each characters voice is so distinct that you get caught up in them, swept along in the story.

The whole novel has a deep sense of isolation no matter which person’s perspective we are exploring, and it creates a wonderful atmosphere that is deeply unsettling and adds fantastic tension. I devoured this book I just had to know what was happening I could not put it down until I got to the end, and WOW, did the end get me.

If you like psychological horror thrillers, stories that are suspenseful and full of twists and mysteries with unexpected plot turns, this is for you