Book review: The Night Game

FRANK GOLDEN’S second novel, The Night Game, is set in a fog-choked New York at winter’s end. It opens with Mary walking home from work one evening, and sensing danger. Oddly, Mary is rather fatalistic: “She accepts the reality of something malevolent about to possess her.”

When Mary gets home, she discovers that a man has left yet another menacing phone-call on her messaging service, threatening that he will ‘come and get her soon’.