"Very real death stalks a virtual reality game world"
In a pandemic lockdown inspired change of genre from the fantasy novels with which she began her career, Kesia Lupo has delivered a nail biting, compulsively readable thriller that will surely gain her even more fans.
Veronica wakes up in a snowstorm trapped with four strangers in a sprawling manor house complete with a dead body. They have each fallen into The Game. A notorious Dark Web creation where, if they can solve the murder mystery, they could win a life-changing sum of money and where the only way out for any of them is to complete the game.
But things start to go badly wrong with blackouts, glitches and a mysterious figure haunting their footsteps and then one of them dies both in the game and in real life and the mystery transforms into who is trying to kill them?
Brilliantly plotted, with vividly descriptive settings and an almost overwhelming sense of claustrophobia, this is sure to appeal to crime and sci-fi fans alike.
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Squid Game meets Agatha Christie in this locked-room virtual reality murder mystery, where the only option is to win - or die trying...
Video games have never been more murderous.
Veronica wakes up trapped with four strangers in a sprawling manor house in a snow storm with a dead body, a mystery right out of an Agatha Christie novel. It feels so real - but it isn't.
This is VR and this is THE Game; a rumoured Easter Egg hidden in other VR games that draws you into a competition for a prize beyond your wildest dreams. And there's no escaping the VR world until the Game is won.
But while Veronica and her fellow players are trying to figure out the puzzle, something is not right in the VR world. Blackouts, glitches, NPCs acting strange, and a mysterious figure haunting their footsteps. Then when a player dies, and also dies in real life, all hell breaks loose.
Without warning, the game Veronica thought she was playing gets overshadowed by a much darker, and much more real, mystery: who is killing us?' It may not be a game Veronica wanted to play, but it's one that she has to win - or die trying.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Let's Play Murder and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
Let's Play Murder features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Recommendations, Gritty Reads, Science Fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Thrillers, Adventure Stories, Featured Books for Young Adults
Let's Play Murder is available in Paperback
Let's Play Murder was written by Kesia Lupo and published by Bloomsbury YA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Let's Play Murder has 327 pages
£8.09
