Meet Frankie Baxter. She’s trying to make ends meet and keep the boat afloat for her three kids. She’s harassed, sometimes impatient. but she’s a fabulous mum. So imagine her distress when Henry, her youngest child, goes missing …
Henry returns safely accompanied by a stranger, Cora, a fairy godmother who starts to change the Baxter family’s lives in the best of ways. So why do things suddenly start going wrong? Is Cora fulfilling their dreams• or is she the start of a nightmare?
Funny, terrifying, and a real page-turner, The Hoax puts a whole new slant on psychological thrillers …
About Paul Clayton
Best known to audiences for five series of the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 sitcom “Peep Show” and for two series of the BAFTA-winning comedy “Him and Her” from BBC 3. He has enjoyed stints as regular characters in soaps “Hollyoaks”, “Coronation Street” “Doctors” is well known to viewers from a considerable volume of the television. Most recent appearances in series 2 of “The Crown”, “Black Earth Rising”, “Wolf Hall”, “The Split”, “Holby”, “ This Time with Alan Partridge” “Shakespeare and Hathaway” “Breeders”. He is currently well known and loved by thousands of sci-fi fans for his role as “Mr. Colchester – terminator in a cardigan”- the leader of the Torchwood team, in the Big Finish ‘Torchwood’ audio dramas.
He recently filmed “Danny Boy” for the BBC.
He is the author of “So You Want to Be a Corporate Actor?” and “The Working Actor” and is a regular columnist and feature writer for The Stage.
He is a patron of the children’s literacy charity Grimm and Co (based in Yorkshire for whom he has staged young authors’ live dramas and facilitated six independent films written by 9 – 11-year-olds.
His first novel “The Punishment” met with great reviews when it was published in 2019.
I liked the read-up for The Hoax and jumped at the chance to read and review and I wasn’t disappointed, I found The Hoax to be a fast-paced story with a plot that left the storyline to be an intense read.
I would definitely recommend reading The Hoax especially if you love thrillers with a psychological to lovers of Thrillers with a psychological twist, as it is a captivating read that is filled with suspense and leaves you on the edge of your seat with an interesting ending!
