I have really enjoyed other books I have read by Will Dean so I had high hopes for this one and it didn't disappoint. This was such an intense and thrilling read overall - one of my favourites of the year so far.

I am a huge Will Dean fan and have read every book since the first Tuva Moodyson book came out! I find his pivot in terms of thrillers to be really interesting and he is absolutely owning his craft.

The chamber is enticing and captivating. Suffocating and all encompassing. Will Dean is absolutely incredible at creating an atmosphere that is so tense. Honestly when i read his books its the only thing i can think about!!

Beyond delighted to be accepted to read The Chamber, after The Last Passenger was one of my favourite books last year.

Ellen Brooke is a diver - but a diver who spends weeks at a time locked inside a hyperbaric chamber with 5 other (male) saturation divers. The divers are reliant on the ship that provides them with life support, food, news, medicine - whatever is needed. Except that if the door is opened, everyone inside will die.which means that when one of the divers is found dead in his bunk, no one can come to help them….for four days. And then it gets worse…..

This book had me gripped. Absolutely desperate to continue reading. And as soon as zi finished it I wanted someone to discuss it with.

Thank you Will for another incredible read and to NetGalley for allowing me to review.

With many thanks to Netgalley for this free arc and I am leaving this unbiased review voluntarily
A unique, captivating and intriguing book from the brilliant mind of Will Dean. The writing is exemplary and you can almost feel the claustrophobia building with each chapter. Locked room mystery is a total understatement in this story! An intense read and the final chapters were gripping. The countdown which was brilliantly done just added to the suspense
Extremely well researched and I take my hat off to the guys that do this for real. An absolute gem of a book.

A locked room thriller which gives a glimpse into the the challenging and demanding world of the saturation diver. They are isolated in a chamber for several weeks and totally dependent on their support team for food, hot water, medication, even flushing the loo.
I couldn't devour the first few chapters quickly enough. Ellen's first dive, a long shift starting at 4am, was full of danger and menace, particularly with the spectre of a huge unknown predator nudging her as she scrambled to get into the diving bell. I wondered why this environment had not been explored much in thrillers.
The reason became clear. The divers undergo a long decompression period before being released, and to fill time we spent a long time reading about their back stories. After sinister developments and the decision to return to Aberdeen, it was a long time before the climax was reached. The final few hours of decompression were tense and edgy but the ending somewhat inconclusive. I would have rated as a 4 but there were too many gaps between the shock incidents which threw us back into the doldrums.

I always read Will Dean’s novels when I have no other plans but to sit and read! This novel is pure suspense from the very beginning. It’s tense, gripping and I could easily imagine this as a film. It’s dark and atmospheric and keeps you hooked with each turn of the page. Thank you to NetGalley, Hodder & Stoughton and the author for the chance to review.

I always read Will Dean’s novels with increasing anxiety and a ball of tension in my stomach and I love it. This novel is pure suspense from the very beginning. It’s tense, gripping and I could easily imagine this as a film. It’s dark and atmospheric and keeps you hooked with each turn of the page. Thank you to NetGalley, Hodder & Stoughton and the author for the chance to review.

I went into this book with the vaguest idea what it was about, the authors name was reason enough to pick it up.
By the end of chapter one I was already feeling claustrophobic.
Things did not get better.
There were heart pounding moments, and as soon as I recovered from one, along came another.
The dread built up nicely (especially into the final countdown of door opening) and suspicion was on everyone.
The diving chamber situation alone was enough to put me on edge before the bodies started piling up.

This is not for faint of heart or anyone with claustrophobia. The writing alone will impress the closeness and size of the small space that six divers face when locked in a hyperbaric chamber together for almost a month. Ellen Brooke has experience in living in a chamber and working on the sea bed – the description of that is both beautiful and a bit scary – and is pleased to be alongside people she trusts and admires. Until the first body is found. There’s still days to go before decompression is finished. Suddenly you’re not stuck in a small space with people who you like, but potentially someone who is deliberately targeting divers. Pressure – quite literal – is all around and it's not going to get any easier. This will make you want to take deep breaths while you read, to ensure you’re not with Ellen and her team well below the water’s surface. It’s a chilling but brilliant read.

The Chamber - Will Dean

Will Dean is so good at suspense and atmosphere and he really doesn’t disappoint with ‘The Chamber’. The title tells you all you need to know before you get started on this claustrophobic, anxiety-ridden, atmospheric and intelligent thriller.
Six ‘sat’ [Saturation] divers are on a boat heading out into the North Sea. Their job is to repair oil pipes 100 metres below sea sea. They can be working for days or weeks at this level and the only way back to the surface is by decompression, a very slow, careful operation: too fast means death. Physical and emotional health, and the ability to work as a team, is crucial. But in this locked hyperbaric chamber thriller something goes seriously wrong and one of the divers is found unconscious. The divers are tested to their limits and beyond.
Dean has clearly done his research on how these jobs are conducted, what the equipment and vehicles looks like, and especially, what exactly is a ‘sat’ diver and what does it take to be successful.
I haven’t felt such intense emotions from a book since reading Dean’s ‘The Last Thing to Burn’. Just read ‘The Chamber’ for yourself.
Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the ARC

Who hurt Will Dean? This is revenge in a novel! Wowsers. What a cracking thriller! Premise, writing, atmosphere and everything in between. I felt sick at certain moments with the divers. Trapped under water. What a thriller. I thought the one set on a cruise ship was good!

Probably best not to read at night if you are claustrophobic or of a nervous disposition. Nerve shredding, intense and MASSIVELY addictive.

Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, literally no escape except death, a group of characters stuck in a nightmare scenario

Loved every minute of it. Probably my favourite Will Dean novel to date. Huge recommend.