Simon Kernick always writes full-throttle thrillers and this is no exception. From the outset, the reader, alongside the main character is thrown completely in at the deep end, in a fear-inducing opening, that never lets up.

Every turn comes with a twist in this compelling thriller.

Seven people find themselves in a mansion not knowing how they got there. Simon serves up another treat. A good cast of Characters though the characters aren't necessarily good.. this fast paced thriller will keep you guessing till the end. One of the best endings I've read in a long time. Thanks to Headline and Netgalley for this review ARC

Simon Kernick is BY FAR the best crime thriller writer and I requested this knowing that he's never let me down. And of course, this is another banger! It has all the hallmarks of a classic Kernick book - gruesome, fast paced, well plotted, full of suspense and tension, each character with absolutely no morals, and you don't know who to trust all the way through. One thing you need to know is to question everybody and everything!
I actually finished this last week and it's taken some time to process it all. I'm still thinking about it!

This book is told via dual timeline, and in first person by narrator Colton Lightfoot, one of seven suspects who wake up in an abandoned house. None can recall how they got there. A mysterious voice soon lets them know what happened: they all have a link to a massacre, and have been selected to discuss the massacre with the aim that the person responsible confesses. The kicker: they've been injected with a slow acting poison, and when the guilty party confesses, the rest of the group will be given an antidote.
We move from the present to flashback at lightning speed and this is not a book where you can relax! Twists are thrown at you from all directions to change your perspective of what's happening. The ending had a couple of twists which were very satisfying - I did guess the culprit from the beginning but several red herrings had me doubting myself throughout!

This is a twisting hither and thither tale featuring a cast of not altogether nice characters. Not one of them comes across as moral after each mysteriously wakes up in a mansion with no recollection of how they arrived. Each has a connection to a massacre four years previously and a voice broadcasts to them that they have been poisoned and have only hours to live unless the perpetrators to the killings confess. The tale switches back and forth between events leading to the final scene where the main perpetrator meets his/her end.

Trying to keep this spoiler-free - wow. Talk about an unreliable narrator!

Seven people wake up in a remote house having been drugged and knocked unconscious the night before. They were all suspects in a massacre four years before and now someone who’s tired of waiting so long wants answers. The book has a split timeline - present day, four years ago, and then two separate times in the future. The twists just keep coming and I definitely didn’t predict the final one!

I have been a fan of this author for many years and I have been looking forward to reading this title since I first saw it advertised. I was not disappointed.
The locked room plot is not original, but the way Kernick plotted the story, imagined the characters and sent the reader off on so many twisting dead ends was incredible. It was a book impossible to put down.The occupants of the locked house found out that they all knew the victims of a crime committed four years ago, and now someone thinks that one of the occupants is the killer. To flush this person out, everyone has been poisoned, the antidote only available when the killer confesses!
This is a serious contender for the ‘I had to stay up all night’ prize.

A complex read full of twist and turns
A cast of amoral characters
A twist I never saw coming at the end
Keep your wits about you reading this one!

This is a non-stop, tense, tightly plotted thriller, one you could imagine as a great Netflix show or movie. In a way, it's quite basic - it does what it says on the tin, and it does it well, like a Lee Child or James Patterson.

It's no easy feat to keep the momentum going in a closed environment with seven or eight different characters, but Simon pulls it off, with flashbacks and a strong tone of voice for each 'suspect'.

This was one of the most curious and intricate mysteries that I have read. The story is told mostly over a dual timeline of then and now with the past being the investigation of the original murders and the present being the abductions of the suspects and the events that happen from the time they start figuring out their situation.
The story was written in a way that made it incredibly gripping reading! There seemed to be good reasons for most of them to have committed the original crimes but evidence was lacking and so were confessions through much of the narrative! I have to warn you here that once I hit the last 100 pages, there was nothing that could get me to put it down, I was totally engrossed in needing to learn who had committed the original crimes, why and also who had masterminded the current abductions. Would any of them get out alive?!
The conclusion to this book was very satisfying, giving me all the answers to the questions I really wanted as well as tying a nice big bow around the whole series of events that had unfolded.
This was a wild ride of a book which had an amazing story arc, great characters with understandable motivations and a good mix of likeable/not personalities and a satisfying conclusion. It's everything I want from a thriller really and now I need to get this authors other books and read those too!

Seven people wake in a house in the middle of nowhere, they have no idea how they got there and more importantly why.
That is until they hear a voice and it tells them they have 12 hours to admit to being a killer.
One or more are responsible for a murder and the voice wants answers. He has also just informed them they have all been poisoned and if they want the antidote someone has to come clean.
With everyone claiming to be innocent, will the killer be revealed, or will they all die before the voice gets the answer they desire.
A brilliant locked in whodunnit story, by a writer who knows how to bring suspense to life.
This is one of those books you will struggle to put down once you start. It’s a wonderfully clever piece of writing, and the characters are fiendishly difficult to work out.
This is one of the best books I’ve read this year and highly recommend it.

It has a brilliant storyline and is very different. I also think you would be in the minority if you actually worked out who the killer was. There are so many false roads that lead you away from the killer and why he did it. If you like a good mystery, then this book is for you.

This book kept me guessing tight to the very last page.
It is, in it's way a homage to the Agatha Christie story "And Then There Were None." Whereas that has ten strangers trapped in a house on an island, this book has seven people in a house who are not known to one another.
All bar one had been questioned by the police at the time of gruesome killings some four years earlier that is still unsolved. The other person is the now disgraced senior police officer who led the enquiries. They have been persuaded that someone has information about then unsolved crime. They are all drugged, and then the fun begins.
This story progresses at a rapid rate, with chapters switching between the present days and four years ago and through the eyes of various members of the cast. This switching works really well.
Author Simon Kernick has done a great job here. Even when the readers think it's all over, there's more and more to come.
I highly recommend this and would add that I think it would make a brilliant screenplay.

I have only read a couple of this author's previous books and I keep saying that I want to read more of his back catalogue, and I really wish there was time for me to do just that. But what I can do is pounce on all the new ones as they are released and try and fit in the odd one inbetween...
This book was brilliant! A bit on the bonkers side, but in a great way. It had me upside down chasing my tail all the way through as I tried to work out what in the heck was going on.
We start with our main narrator Colton Lightfoot waking up in a strange house after apparently being drugged. He's dazed and confused and, as he investigates is surroundings, gets accosted and attacked by a couple... Long story short and it transpires that not only are Colton and the couple in the house, there are 4 other people, all in some way connected to an incident known as The Black Lake Massacre where 4 people lost their lives. The perpetrator of which still roams free. A disembodied voice informs them that they have all been injected with a poison which will kill them in 12 hours. The antidote will only be available if someone confesses to the murders...
Our second narrator is former DCI Clive Hemming who headed up the initial botched investigation which saw an innocent man convicted. The timeline splits in two - the present day and four years ago, the time of the Massacre...
Do yourself a favour and go in as blind as you can with this book. It's worth holding all the confusion you will feel pretty much all the way through when you eventually get to the light-bulb moment... The story is compelling and held my attention nicely all the way through, spitting me out at the end shocked but satisfied. Every twist and turn was so expertly weaved.
The characters are all brilliantly crafted and all quite horrid in various ways. For me, it wasn't a book that allowed me to root for the characters' survival cos I wanted them to live, I pretty much only wanted them to stay alive long enough for me to actually discover the truth!
All in all, a cracking read which I thoroughly enjoyed. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

From my previous experience, whenever Simon Kernick completes another book, I know that I'll almost certainly enjoy the story and most of his books are very different from the others. This ’ You All Die Tonight’ novel begins when a collection of potentially related people wake up in a remote mansion and they are being controlled by a voice who has poisoned all of them and they will all die unless the one that is guilty admits their culpability. Of course, with several hundred pages to go you know that the guilty party isn't going to admit to what happened or make their confession for a long time yet. You will probably guess that several of the potential victims will lose their lives, some will be red herrings and some stories will be revealed. I have to say that Kernick surpasses himself with this story which made me want to turn the pages as quickly as possible and the twists and turns were completely unexpected. The only bad news about finishing this book is that I'll have to wait for the next.

You All Die Tonight was an incredibly claustrophobic, riveting read.

This was a tightly plotted and atmospheric thriller that wonderfully plays with its locked room setting to reveal the secrets surrounding brutal murders from years ago. It has a killer premise, I mean who doesn’t want to read that book? Kernick builds on it brilliantly though to deliver a slick, sharp and shocking story. It is deeply intense and chilling, moving back and forth through time and differing perspectives. This crime and the circumstances around it are so complex, with various factors rearing their head. It is all the messiness of being human and getting caught up in a storm that rages out of control. There is a lot to unpack here and Kernick does excellently. You question everything and suspect everyone. I love a book that can move seamlessly between people and places, jolting you just enough to keep you on your toes.

The mystery is deepened by this use of setting and atmosphere. It is an isolated locale that could almost be anywhere. That trapped in sense increases the tension immediately, before the characters even start interacting and unspooling the tangled threads of that deadly night. For me, it reminded me of that tight terror that made Saw such a cultural moment. The mystery itself keeps that sense of urgency. Kernick packs the pages with action and surprises, which flip the story on their head and make you question everything. Some of these twists are nothing short of dastardly. I’m giving nothing away, but there is even one hell of a stinger in the final chapter.

You All Die Tonight is a barnstormer of a book. This is a great mystery with tight plotting and stellar twists.

This is a great thriller.
A group of people wake up in an old house after being drugged by an unknown person.
They are all very confused until a voice comes through the speakers to say that they have been brought here to find out who carried out the Black Lake murders four years ago. They are told that they have all been injected with poison and if the killer admits it, then the others will be given the antidote, but if no-one admits it, then they all die.
Things start to get very tense as they all start to feel the effects of the poison, and soon they are all turning on each other.
All the characters have at least one secret that they are hiding from the others so this was a hard one to work out.
Thanks to Headline for the opportunity to read this book.

I read this book very quickly, the darkness of the book was very compelling and I just had to keep reading to find out the truth.

This was just OK for me. It didn't really grab me and the characters were all so unlikable it was hard to connect. But, it was readable and I did ultimately qant yo know what had happened!

A slow burner. Good premise but did not fully deliver for me. Unlikeable characters. Just an average read. Would definitely read the next one as I have enjoyed his past novels. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to review it.

This was an absolutely fantastic read. I love a story with two timelines, and the separate but connecting mysteries from each in this case were really gripping.

The pacing was great. There were so many twists and reveals and I didn’t see any of them coming, or if I did I only managed to figure it out a few sentences beforehand.