BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
In a prestigious Edinburgh apartment building, gym receptionist Evie whiles away long hours doodling the deaths of residents who’ve annoyed her.
On her birthday of all days, a man slumps off the exercise bike — dead. She tries to get help, but someone has locked the doors and the phones are out of reach.
When another resident collapses inexplicably, Evie realises the deaths resemble those she drew … and her sketchbook is missing.
Was she framed...
... or is she next?
After reading Killer Bodies, I can say for certain that I won't be setting foot inside a gym...not that I would want to go anyway. Exercise is bad for you and it's certainly lethal for some of the characters in Heleen Kist's new novel.
There are a lot of entitled and dislikeable characters in the book but I absolutely loved Evie, the gym receptionist. Evie was supposed to be off work for her birthday but she is called in to work at the last minute and she finds herself locked in the gym with a bunch of residents whose deaths she has imagined and drawn in her sketchbook. Then the residents start dying exactly how Evie imagined...
Yikes! This is a pretty dark novel but it has a sprinkling of humour and some really funny drawings that had me laughing out loud. I think I suspected every single character at one point or another as it really could have been any of them. It's very cleverly done and impossible to work out as there are so many different (and dare I say, amusing) ways that people are killed.
Entertaining, imaginative and suspenseful, Killer Bodies is a brilliant locked room murder mystery that had my eyes glued to the page from start to finish. It's so good that I want to read it again! Very highly recommended.
I received a digital ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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About the author:
Heleen Kist is a Dutch, formerly globetrotting career woman who fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow. 'Killer Bodies' is her fourth novel, inspired by her hatred of exercise.
She was chosen as an up-and-coming new author at Bloody Scotland 2018. Her novels have been finalists in a variety of awards, both in the UK and USA, and she years to some day 'be the bride'.
Heleen hopes you enjoy her writing, and would love to hear from you on twitter (@hkist), Facebook (@heleenkistauthor) or Goodreads. You can also sign up to her newsletter on www.heleenkist.com
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