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2000s: Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder…
A Room Full of Killers
What you need to know before your trail
Feared by the people of Sheffield, Starling House is home to some of Britain’s deadliest teenagers. Now the building’s latest arrival, Ryan Asher, has been found brutally murdered – stabbed twelve times, left in a pool of blood.
DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and they uncover the secrets of a house tainted by evil. The security system has been sabotaged, and neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted.
How do you find a murderer in a house full of killers…?
Travel Guide
The Steel City
Sheffield is known as and referred to as the Steel City due to its heritage and steel industry – Visit Kelham Island Museum for a history lesson and Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet where the only intact crucible steel furnace survives today. Maybe get some to coat your stomach with when reading this novel!
Starling House (fictional)
“Off a main road and down a bone-shaking rack, they came to a set of electronic gates with razor wire on the top”
They drive through the gates and stop when they see a second set of gates. The first ones close behind them and they are then trapped in a small rectangle with high fencing on all four sides with barbed wire tightly coiled along the top…
The real story surrounded this young man, a boy whose crimes we don’t yet understand, who within a day of having been moved to Starling House has been murdered. Released from a room in lock down, one that could only be opened from the outside, and found in another room which was also locked. The staff are all accounted for and the offenders are all locked away. A sort of perfectly imperfect, unlocked-locked room mystery. So who is responsible? The staff of this institution – some of questionable character and dubious levels of security screening – or the inmates – a group of high profile teenage murderers? Seven young men with completely the right character to commit a crime, but no clear motive and no access. Such a quandary and absolutely beautiful to read.
Booktrailer Review
If you are a fan of a good police procedural with a strong yet crumbling central protagonist, menacing suspects and more than a hint of mystery, then I absolutely recommend reading this book. I read a lot of thrillers and this is totally up there with the best of them, the killer and motive so well hidden for so long that I seriously didn’t see it coming. Brilliant.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: A Room Full of Killers
Author/Guide: Michael Wood Destination: Manchester Departure Time: 2000s
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