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Red, Red Robin Paperback – February 25, 2018

by Stephen Gallagher (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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“A Classic of psychological suspense that sets this year's benchmark in written terror... Plot, pace and prose skewer you on page one and keep you pinned until the very last line” Christopher Fowler

When Ruth Lasseter hires an escort to cover for a workplace affair, she unwittingly lets a deeply disturbed young man into her life. Though she survives the consequence, she's left with the lingering suspicion that he hasn't simply disappeared, but has gone on to reinvent himself. He's still out there, taking out his problems on other women just like her.

There was a moment where Ruth had her chance to stop him for good. But she didn't take it.

Now she realizes that closure - and the safety of every other woman in his path - lie on the other side of a very dangerous line.

"A classic of the suspense genre, an obsessive read with a genuinely sinister central character" The London Times

"A genuine gripper" Literary Review

“A satisfyingly twisty suspenser with a truly menacing villain” Kirkus Reviews

"A smashing serial-killer thriller that embraces all the conventions of the genre while adding several page-turning twists of its own" Publishers Weekly

"Powerful prose, wrenching psychological intensity, and icy suspense characterize Gallagher's newest thriller." Library Journal

“The final, inevitable showdown proves as powerful as the promise that Gallagher has built up, page upon gripping page of this compelling, unusually sensitive chiller” Mystery Scene

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Brooligan Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ New edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1999920759
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1999920753
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.97 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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Stephen Gallagher

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Beginning his TV career with the BBC's DOCTOR WHO, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and primetime episodic television. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's CRUSOE, creator of CBS Television's ELEVENTH HOUR, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's THE FORGOTTEN. His fourteen novels include DOWN RIVER, RAIN, VALLEY OF LIGHTS, and NIGHTMARE, WITH ANGEL. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels beginning with THE KINGDOM OF BONES and THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, continuing in THE AUTHENTIC WILLIAM JAMES.

Described by The Independent as "the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré ... Gallagher, like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots." According to Arena magazine, "Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.

The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place." Charles de Lint wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, "Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better." Also in Mystery Scene David Mathew added, "never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights), and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of contemporary world fantasy... in places. You might go as far as to employ that overused phrase sui generis. He is, at any rate, one of the best writers of his generation."

Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards.

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  • booklover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Psychological Thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016
    Ruth Lasseter is having an affair .... with her married boss. She must bring a date to the company dance in order for her lover's wife to not become suspicious. Contacting an escort service, she is given a brochure with all the available men's pictures.

    She chooses Tim Hagan, although he is much younger. He's good looking, charming, polite, well-mannered .. everything a woman could ask for. He's also seething with rage underneath.

    Ruth makes her first mistake ... she sleeps with him. Now she can't get rid of him. She seems him everywhere. He send flowers ... thousands of dollars worth of flowers. Her car is tampered with. He becomes the stalker we all hear about.

    In the meantime, one of the security guards at her office, Aiden, has also become enamored of Ruth. He's always pleasant but keeps an eye on her.

    One evening, while working late, Hagan appears with a gun and forces her outside into her car. During this car ride, Ruth notices a car that seems to follow them .. it's Aiden. What results is a car chase, with the car rolling off the road. Ruth grabs the gun, but doesn't have it in her to use it on her kidnapper. Aiden is hurt and she tends to him instead.

    A few days later, Hagan's body is found in a ditch close to where their accident occurred.

    And this is where the story ends ... RIGHT? no..no..no.. this is actually only the beginning of a living nightmare for both Ruth and Aiden.

    This is billed as a novel of suspense.. and that it is. But it is also a psychological thriller. I found it really hard to put the book down. So much action, so many strange things happening ... are they really happening .... or is she losing her mind? Aiden doesn't believe her .. cops don't believe her ... Hagan's family doesn't even believe her. And just who exactly who and what was Tim Hagan?

    Excellent, well written, with characters that are believable. A must read!
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  • Andrew McCaffrey
    4.0 out of 5 stars When the Red, Red Robin goes kill kill killing along
    Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2003
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    I'll state right off the bat that the reason I bought and read this book was because the author had penned one of my favorite Doctor Who serials and I wanted to see if he was as apt at novel-writing as he was at script-writing (I should note that he also wrote a rather mediocre Doctor Who serial, but we won't talk about that now). I was quite impressed by this book, and it fulfilled my expectations. I'm not a regular reader of this genre, but I found this particular example to be amazingly captivating.
    While reading the opening chapters of RED, RED ROBIN, my mind quickly went over the possible outcomes for the story, and I quickly began to predict how the book would unfold. It turns out that my initial prediction was correct in all but one aspect. The scenario that I had envisioned for the whole book ended at about page 75, and from there the plot kept making clever leaps and turns, defying my ability to guess which direction it would go. Eventually, I stopped making predictions and just enjoyed the thrill ride that it offered.
    "Psychological thriller" is, I believe the term they use to describe this sort of book, and it's a genre that I'll admit to some inexperience with. But if they're all as good as this one is, I should have some great reading ahead of me. I went into this book having not read so much as a single plot summary of the novel, so I was taken completely by surprise at every twist and turn. Therefore, I will not describe more than the very initial setup. All you should know is that this book starts off with two people: a woman, and a man she hires from an (legitimate) escort service. What this scenario turns into should not be hard to guess, but how it happens, and what happens beyond that are utterly surprising, and completely mesmerizing.
    A book of this kind lives or dies depending on how interesting the protagonists are to the reader. The audience doesn't necessarily have to like or dislike them; they just have to want to keep reading about them. The characters of RED, RED ROBIN are fascinating creations. They're given huge amounts of background detail. Their actions are always understandable and consistent. And one of them even gets childhood flashback sequences that are quite creepy and impressive. Gallagher does all this without sacrificing the breakneck speed of his plot.
    One thing that I quite enjoyed was the way that the British author included many different forms of American life. I can almost imagine him over here doing research and being inspired by all the different types of locations that are available. The story begins in the bustling city of Philadelphia, but it moves around quite a bit, taking in big cities and small towns, open countryside, and boggy swampland. He brings forward a very interesting outsider's view of America.
    I'm glad I let Stephen Gallagher's television work lure me into his mainstream novels. I now have a second book of his waiting for me in my too-read pile. If this book is anything to go by, then I'll have a great story awaiting me filled with memorable characters, and genuinely unsettling thrills and imagery. I'm looking forward to my next Gallagher novel.
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  • Connie Wilkerson
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2016
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    did not like I at all.
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  • Teddy123
    1.0 out of 5 stars Gallagher not at his best in robin
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2014
    Just didn't grab me through the first 50 pages or so. I gave up and went to something else. No go
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  • Lynn Harnett
    5.0 out of 5 stars A serial killer thriller with real characters!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2004
    Format: Hardcover
    British writer Gallagher produces a serial-killer novel of intense psychological suspense in this 1995 thriller.
    An Englishwoman who has adopted Philadelphia as her home, Ruth Lasseter is having an affair with the boss. When she needs a date for a company function she turns to an escort service, choosing a shockingly young and handsome date who enchants her with his perfect manners and romantic attentions.
    But the young man, Tim Hagan, is not satisfied with one night. He begins a stalking campaign which escalates into a nightmare of violence. Ruth escapes, with the help of Aidan Kincannon, an ex-cop turned security guard, but loses her lover, her job and her self-assurance. A year later Ruth is living in Aidan's house. His sometime lover, she is obsessed full-time with Hagan and refuses to accept news of his death.
    She embarks on a search into his past, peeling away layers, finding horrors. Aidan, who's made poor choices in his life, develops as a man of deep integrity, bravery and uncertainty. Meanwhile Ruth's ex-lover's vengeful wife, a lawyer, is determined to have Ruth deported. And the career of Tim Hagan is once again steering him on a collision course with Ruth.
    Gallagher focuses on character development, making his people steer the plot. A riveting read with enough unusual quirks to make it stand out.
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  • Sherry W
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very very good read.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2014
    I read 3 to 4 books a week (the beauty of being retired) so I don't often find a truly unique and mesmerising read. In this one I did. This story has so many twists and turns you will never guess the ending. Don't miss this one if you like a great mystery.
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