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2024: Seven people wake up in a remote mansion. How did they get there? And how do they leave?
2024: Seven people wake up in a remote mansion. How did they get there? And how do they leave?
Seven people wake up in a remote mansion. The doors are all locked.
They have no idea where they are. Who brought them there. Or how to escape.
Each knew the victims of a dreadful crime committed four years earlier but that’s all that links them.
Then a voice echoes through the house with a terrifying message.
They’ve been poisoned – and have less than 12 hours to live.
There’s an antidote on hand: but only if someone admits to being a killer.
And they all claim to be innocent.
The time for confession is rapidly running out.
How many – if any – of them will survive the night?
Essex
There are a few locations in the novel and it’s clearly set in Essex but the crime scene – Black Lake House is fictional. The main setting is the house itself and believe me when I say you would not want to really visit Black Lake House anyway.
The remote and rural setting is some 20 miles NW of Colchester so that spot is on the map.
The real adventure in Simon Kernick’s book is in that house where the characters are trapped….
Destination/location: Essex, Colchester, Chelmsford Author/guide: Simon Kernick Departure Time: 2024
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