"Following a true crime influencer at a sleepy village’s sinister crow festival, this fast-paced comedic crime novel will make you laugh and gag "
The novel alternates between two time-lines, the events leading up to Esme’s disappearance a year ago, and the ‘present day’, on the night of that event’s anniversary. Both timelines have their own twists and adrenaline (and dramatic murders!) Following a downbeat journalist and a cold-case online celebrity, the book is both an homage and critique of modern true crime obsessives and armchair investigators.
Chilton’s story combines cinematic set-pieces — like the sinister Jack Daw crow costume which a historic murderer wore at the local village fete 30 years ago — with relatable characters and everyday language which makes you feel very much part of the action, and believe that it could be happening.
Something I particularly admired is how Chilton is brilliant at having a killer (pun intended) twist at the end of each and every one of these punchy chapters, meaning you can’t put the book down. I read it in two sittings and was racing to get back to it.
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Don't miss the new laugh-out-loud thriller from L.M. Chilton, Everyone in the Group Chat Dies - a murder mystery that fuses the flatmate comedy of Friends with the serial-killer thrills of I Know What You Did Last Summer.Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything:- Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).- Her dead-end job.- Her sleazy landlord.- Her slobbish housemates.- And, most of all, the terrible thing they all did.Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet.
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Humour, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Housing and homelessness, Social media / social networking, Thriller: serial killers, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Psychological thriller, Thriller: serial killers, Society and Social Sciences, Society and culture: general, Social and ethical issues, Housing and homelessness, Computing and Information Technology, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Internet guides and online services, Social media / social networking
Paperback. £8.99, down from the £9.99 cover price. In Stock.
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies was written by L.M. Chilton and published by Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies has 349 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.
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