At the start of this book, a man receives a call from a good friend, only to hear his friend die and be told by the murderer that he's next. He then spends the rest of the book trying to work out what's going on.

The idea is clever, but the execution is less effective. We have three naratives going on at once for most of the book. The guy who gets the call tells us what's going on from his point of view, as do the killers and the police (who get involved when the the first murder is uncovered).

The author jumps between these 3 naratives as we head toward a point where the guy who got the call finds out what's going on and either survives or dies (and the police arrive on the scene). Once the 3 constituent parts are at the same point at the same time, the ending is told from one point of view.

I think that this is a problem because just when you're getting into a particular character, you jump to another and you have to read 20 to 30 pages of stuff you don't care for to get back to the storyline that most interests you. I found that irritating after a while.

In addition, the book feels like something that's been written for television. As an example, when you're about to leave a character, there's a televison style 'hook' that makes you read till the next time a character arrives. This is fine at first, but after a while you start thinking 'Enough already with the hooks.'