Elevator Pitch
Author: Linwood Barclay
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
Publisher: Doubleday Canada/William Morrow
A series of seemingly random freak accidents are taking place in Manhattan. It soon becomes apparent that these horrifyingly tragic occurrences are deliberate attacks by someone who is determined to terrorize the city! I have a phobia of elevators so I was petrified by the premise alone.
This is an extremely fast-paced suspense novel with an array of multi-faceted characters and an intriguing story. I’ve been a fan of Linwood Barclay’s novels for many years now and Elevator Pitch is hands down one of my favourites. My suggestion is you set aside a good amount of undisturbed reading time for this book as once you pick it up, you won’t want to put it down until you’ve finished the last page!
Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada for the copy provided for review.
From the publisher:
The New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach—a heart-pounding tale in which a series of disasters paralyzes New York City with fear.
It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non-stop, to the top. Once there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets.
Right to the bottom of the shaft.
It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high-rise catastrophe, one of the most vertical cities in the world—and the nation’s capital of media, finance, and entertainment—is plunged into chaos.
Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it’s working. Fearing for their lives, thousands of men in women working in offices across the city refuse to leave their homes. Commerce has slowed to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment buildings go unanswered.
Who is behind this? Why are they doing it? What do these deadly acts of sabotage have to do with the fingerless body found on the High Line? Two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist must race against time to find the answers before the city’s newest, and tallest, residential tower has its ribbon-cutting on Thursday.
With each diabolical twist, Linwood Barclay ratchets up the suspense, building to a shattering finale. Pulsating with tension, Elevator Pitch is a riveting tale of psychological suspense that is all too plausible . . . and will chill readers to the bone.
You can read my original Isabella's Reading Corner post on Elevator Pitch here.
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