Some novels start out with such a bizarre beginning that it catches your attention. When you pick it up to read, it starts out in a way you didn't expect. That's exactly what I felt when I started reading Chris McGeorge's novel GUESS WHO. I must say that I loved it from the beginning to the end. I wholeheartedly recommend adding this suspense novel to your reading list. McGeorge's debut shows he has a gift for psychological suspense. When I learned McGeorge wrote this novel as his thesis for a creative writing class at City University London, I was very impressed - it is one of the best thrillers I have read.
Morgan Sheppard wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to a bed with five strangers also slowly waking up. With a dead body in the room's bathroom leaving one of the people trapped in the room as the murderer. Sheppard has to use his detective skills that he uses on TV where he is portrayed as a "resident detective" which made him famous. Does he really have what it takes to solve the mystery before it is too late?
Morgan's reputation for solving mysteries came from when he was 11 years old and he solved the mystery of a teacher who appears to look as he took his own life but was really murdered. Can he live up to his reputation? Is he really a natural detective or just someone searching for fame? And why would someone trap him and these five strangers into a locked hotel room with no way out until the mystery is solved within three hours?
I cannot wait to read more from Chris McGeorge in the future! There is talent there for more amazing novels. GUESS WHO will have you guessing the whole way. I enjoyed and love reading this suspense and hope to read more!
The rules are simple.
But the game is not.
At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of
a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide.
The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation
for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He
parlayed that fame into a gig as TVβs βresident
detective,β solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk
show mysteries like βWho is the father?β and βIs he
cheating?β
Until, that is, Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in
an unfamiliar hotel room. Around him, five strangers are
slowly waking up, as well. Soon they discover a corpse in
the bathtub and Sheppard is challenged to put his
deductive skills to the test. One of the people in the
room is the killer. He has three hours to solve the
murder. If he doesnβt find the killer, they all will die.
An ingenious, page-turning debut, Chris McGeorgeβs Guess
Who matches the high-wire plotting of classic βlocked
roomβ mysteries into the unstoppable pacing of the
modern-day thriller.
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