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Author · Storyteller
Luke May
@lukemay
Writer interested in mystery, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Luke May writes across mystery and psychological thriller, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Luke May
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Quiet Room Next Door
When a Belfast proofreader inherits her late father’s storage unit, she finds a stack of notebooks that describe incidents in a city apartment block with unnerving precision, including events that have not happened yet. As she starts checking the details, she realises someone in the building has been shaping the lives of the other tenants for years, and may already know she is looking. The deeper she goes, the harder it becomes to tell whether the notebooks are evidence, confession, or a very patient trap.
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