P. S. Hogan was born in Yorkshire. He is married with four children and has been a journalist and columnist on the Observer for over 20 years.
You'll definitely want to change your locks after reading this original and darkly funny novel that will send shivers down your spine. * Stylist * The first-person portrayal of a truly cold-blooded protagonist is a hard thing to pull off, especially one whose outward appearance is so benign but Phil Hogan has created an antihero horrifically ruthless and disquieting. * Guardian * One to watch: an eerie page-turner. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * The Bookseller * Brims with wry wit and taut tension [and] delivers one surprise after another. * The New York Times * A wonderfully sinister fable of property and obsession. * Observer * Very clever. A creepily alluring voice. * Julia Crouch * I loved it - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant! * Sophie Hannah, author of 'Did You See Melody?' * A brilliant read, almost unbearably tense at times. * Daily Mail * There is a delicious feeling of complicity in his misdemeanours: Heming gets in side your head as easily as he gets into his neighbours' houses... a superbly plotted and genuinely creepy novel. it deserves to be a bestseller. * Sunday Express * A wonderfully creepy voice, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero. * Rosamund Lupton, author of 'Sister' *