A tightly written story about a man who undergoes hypnosis and develops an unfortunate side-effect - a facility for telepathy that exposes the dark side of his normal suburban neighbourhood. It's simply told but genuinely compelling; I read the entire book in a single sitting because I kept wanting to know what happened next. There's a tangle of motivation and resonance and ghostly recrimination, and I liked that although Tom's marriage to Anne staggers under the weight of his horribly disturbing new talent, they're both decent people who find a way to love and support each other regardless - it's pretty much the only warm spot in what turns out to be a rather nasty setting. Nasty not only in the presence of actual murder, but in the mundane petty behaviours of silly, selfish people who are good at covering up what they are for public consumption. Just imagine how uncomfortable dinner parties might be if you could see beneath the surface... Tom gets a series of nasty shocks, and so do we.