BOOK REVIEW | MYSTERY | THRILLER
Death Nest by Simon Dillon — A Book Review
A thrill ride of untenable torment, mysterious myths and a clandestine conspiracy that captures the reader’s imagination
Author Simon Dillon’s new book, Death Nest, comes with all the elements of a good thriller: a relatively quiet and quaint English town, an amusement park built decades ago bordering a forest rumoured to hold a paranormal protector, a child gone missing and presumed murdered, a neurological facility of questionable ethics and a mysterious organization of nefarious intentions. Dillon ties all of that and more together with the binding thread of a family under tremendous strain and balanced with a genuine love story.
That complexity is a formidable challenge for any author, but Dillon brings it off well and does so in a tidy 338 pages of fantastic fiction.
Having read Dillon before and naturally knowing the genre chosen, I expected chilling and vivid mental imagery, sinister plots and deeply disturbing scenarios — what I didn’t expect was to find a genuine and lovely display of a coming-of-age romance and lingering love story.
This horrible and evil premise mirrored by good and beautiful is visceral and perfectly…
