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    The Killer You Know

    Written by S. R. Masters

    Narrated by Imogen Church

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    About this audiobook

    You need to kill at least three people, right? So that's what I'll do.

    When Will jokes about becoming a serial killer, his friends just laugh it off. But Adeline can't help but feel there's something more sinister lurking behind his words.

    Fifteen years later, Adeline returns to Blythe for a reunion of the old gang—except Will doesn't show up. Reminiscing about old times, they look up the details of his supposed murder spree. But the mood soon changes when they discover two recent deaths that match.

    As the group attempts to track Will down, they realise that he is playing a sinister game that harks back to one they used to play as kids. Only this time there are lives at stake....

    A gripping and atmospheric debut psychological thriller—perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Alex Marwood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle, Brown (Hachette UK) Audio
    Release dateAug 30, 2018
    ISBN9781405541282
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    • 2/5
      This book started out to be quite good, but overall I thought it was long winded and a bit of hard going in places. Story is 5 friends now in their 30s are going to meet up at Christmas eve only 1 of them doesn't turn up. Adeline, Steve, Rupesh and Jen team up. Will is absent, the group then think maybe Will is a killer as that is the last thing he said he was going to do all those years ago. The book then jumps from 1997 to 2016, with clues along the way as to what has been happening over the years. 2 Girls were Murdered/Killed themselves like Will said. They are all a bit nervous they track Will down he is a bit weird and doesnt want to see them. But is he a Killer? Spoiler alert The Killer is Steve he is very manipulative and stole Wills idea to kill people to bring the group together he also in the end kills Will.
    • 4/5
      The last three books added to my tally for the year are all about murder, which makes me seem a bit morbid, but the connection is a revived passion for my favourite film - bonus points to S R Masters for sharing the love:Steve suggests they watch Grosse Pointe Blank again and Adeline doesn’t resist, even though she must have watched it twice in the intervening year and can quote whole sections by heart.Obsessing over movies from the 90s aside, this is a brilliant debut novel from the author. I was completely caught up in the nostalgic atmosphere of the flashbacks, but the creepy turn in the 'present day' chapters also had me hooked. In 1997 - the year I was also in my mid-teens, so I could identify perhaps a little too much with the era - five sixteen year old friends in the Midlands get together to watch films and forget their family problems. Adeline, the main narrator, has recently moved to the country from the city but bonds with Jen, Will, Rupesh and falls in love with the charismatic Steve. The 'Famous Five', as a neighbour terms them, try to rescue a dog that they think is being neglected and then turn to playing games to pass the summer. Steve comes up with the idea of a clue hunt but with the cruel twist of excluding the loser from the group. Tensions over imagined slights start to set the five against each other before they part ways after an evening none of them will forget. Will, the awkward loner of the gang, tells them all he will become a serial killer and even describes how he will kill his victims. Nobody really takes him seriously until a hasty reunion at Christmas sixteen years later, when Will is the only one who doesn't turn up. Was he telling the truth or is someone still playing games?I enjoyed this psychological thriller with Stephen King vibes - I love that It is referenced too - although the pacing could have been tighter, and the page count 100 pages shorter. Adeline is a great character with a dream job - a film critic on a podcast about beloved childhood 'classics' - and the other four friends are slowly realised as the story builds. Jen is a failed actress close to breakdown, Rupesh a local GP living in his parents' old house, Steve handsome but slippery, and Will built entirely on misleading memories from the other four. They are all unreliable and have issues that twist how they remember the past, while the reader is tossed between them, finding faults and switching allegiances when new facts are revealed. When the killer is finally revealed, I was all the dramatic clichés at once - on the edge of my seat, with my heart in my throat! I did not want them to escape justice, especially with animal cruelty involved.A fast-paced, fun read, albeit slightly overlong - definitely recommended!