You All Die Tonight

Submitted: 8th October 2024

You All Die Tonight – Simon Kernick

If you haven’t come across Simon Kernick yet – get yourself into a bookshop quick smart! This book isn’t out until November but there are plenty of more in the Kernick library to enjoy. Then you have the delight of this one!

Simon is a writer who really needs to be on your thriller radar…..

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BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : A remote house in Essex

Author guide: Simon Kernick

Genre: thriller, locked room

Food and drink to accompany: only what is served

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A novel to transport you to a locked manor

Map of locations in You All Die Tonight

You’ve been Kernicked – that should the tagline on the cover. Every time I pick up a Kernick novel I get something I wasn’t expecting – in a good way. This novel was different to what I had read from him before but brilliantly fresh and with that Kernick stamp on it.

A simple premise at first – a small group of people wake up locked up in a mansion. There is only one link between them – that many years earlier, there was an awful crime committed and they all knew the victims.

It actually reminded me of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None as a recording tells the group that there is death in the air. The voice tells them that everyone has eaten a poison and they will all die. Unless, the person responsible for that crime all those years ago, confesses. The other ones will get the antidote.

Well, that was me hooked! The pace started fast and furious and didn’t let up. For a setting that was essentially a small group on a remote island, this is no mean feat. The atmosphere built nicely with a time line in the present, one of the initial investigation. Lots of POVs to navigate but that is one exciting challenge.

Characters you will love to hate or really dislike at least. Every one of them says they are innocent and so its a guessing game to see who might have done it and why. I didn’t guess it and I’m pleased that I didn’t as it was quite a good grisly game trying to figure it all out. I loved how it reminded me of Christie yet it was a fresh, modern thriller with dilemmas, suspicion and strangers who knew more than they all let on.

Short snappy chapters gave everyone their voice. Do you dare believe any of them? why would anyone here have committed that awful crime.

I was Kernicked and I ain’t complaining.