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British butler Giles has taken a job for three times his usual salary. He is soon to find out that he will forever be cursed and faced with allowing a group of unknowing people to meet a killer so maniacal and twisted that the murders are virtually motiveless. Giles welcomes ten guests to a luxurious estate where they will be embarking on a diabolical game of life and death. Giles, while on the guests' side, is a leader who will get out of the way of the killer and stand by as one person in each chapter is murdered in an outrageous manner. For example, one murder is a choreographed shark where the guests have to retrieve the victim's head from the shark's body. Another murder will be at the hands of a driverless car ala Stephen King's Christine. After each murder, the rest of the guests will have their choice of investigating the crime scene, the body or the last known whereabouts. They then must present their account of the details of the murder. The two whose assessments are least accurate will not sleep easy, knowing one of them will be killed shortly and painfully. In the end, we will be left with the winner, the loser and the killer. The epilogue will set up Giles's continued journey and Book 2.… (more)
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This start of a series (?) for TV or readers needed a bit of polishing - descriptions were a bit short more geared to what might be for TV but all in all I enjoyed it and look forward to the next one.
The basic plot is somewhat similar to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with the added twist that the "guests" are forced to try to solve how the murders are committed in order to avoid being the next victim.
Original review:
Haha, this was great. I love the TV show, and this is basically like a novelization of that -- complete with "scared" or "spared" cards, the in-house morgue, etc.
The mysteries were fun to hear them solve, kind of like Encyclopedia
Can't wait for the next one. Also, I listened to this in audio, which is narrated by Giles the butler from the show -- making it even more fun.
The story is really engaging even though it doesn’t take much to figure out who the killer is.
Giles is the image of how I suspect a butler would behave, sound and deal with this type of situation. The other characters are also very well fleshed out and it is very easy to tell the characters apart.
I look forward to reading more books in the series.