An adrenaline filled book with twists galore in this race against time for survival. Seven people find themselves in a large remote house having been drugged. The doors and windows are locked, trapping them inside. All of them were in some way connected to a horrific mass murder four years earlier. A mysterious voice announces they have all been poisoned and have just a few hours to live. If one of them confessess to the murders, an antidote will be made available to the remaining people. As the clock ticks desperation and panic ensues that causes vicious accusations, threats and violence. In an alternating timeline the story returns to the original investigation in which a man was wrongfully convicted. Money and corruption are at the heart of the story but just who is guilty? With no-one admitting guilt and several becoming unwell time is running out. Will someone own up before they all die? A clever story with twists coming right to the very end.

I do like a locked room thriller and I liked You All Die Tonight very much. I literally could not put it down, pleading one more chapter over two very long nights! There are twists, turns and revelations to the very last sentence and I rushed the ending so much I had to go back and read the last few chapters slowly the following day! Told by different characters on two timelines, it was easy to follow and fast paced. My only criticism is that I didn’t really like any of the characters so didn’t care that much what happened to them! I will be recommending and I will be reading more by Simon Kernick.

Thank you to Headline and NetGalley for an eARC of this book.

3.5 Stars

Started a bit slow, but the pace picked up towards the end. Great writing and character development. Chapters a nice length.

You die tonight by Simon Kernick is the 19th book from the author I have read and yet again he doesn’t disappoint. He Is one of the authors that made me love crime fiction so much.
Seven people wake up from being drugged in a remote mansion. They are confused to how they got there and why. All seven people are linked to an incident 4 years ago when they were all involved in the Black Lake Massacre. Where there was only one survivor. A voice and a camera tell each of them that they have been drugged with a poison and they only have 12 hours to live until one confesses who the real killer is. But each one of them have something to hide and as the tension builds in the room, they are starting on each other to find the killer and get the antidote for the poison so they can live,
This is quite a different storyline to the author’s usual work. This is his first lock room mystery. But as with this one, and all his other works is action from the get-go. This is another thriller of a ride, with lots of action, twists and turns and a satisfactory ending. 5 stars from me,

Normally when I read books like this I guess pretty quickly who the bad guy is, even the tricky ones I'll get by half way through. I got til practically the last page before I figured it out and even then I didn't guess the whole thing.
I loved this book because it really kept me guessing.
Colton wakes up in a strange room after a night out, with no memory of the evening or where he is, his phone and wallet are gone and then he sees the camera, he shortly realises he is not the only one there as others start to appear and they all know each other. They are all connected to a murder case, someone wants to know who the real killer was and they are prepared to let these people die to find out who is guilty.
Not only do you have to figure out who the killer is, you also have to figure out who took the suspects. Such a good book, will definitely be recommending this to my book club

Extremely claustrophobic story that I devoured over two nights. Brilliantly written, tense and suspenseful. A brilliant thriller xx

You All Die Tonight was an amazing read for me. I have not read of author Simon Kernick's novels before, my partner is a huge fan and after this novel I will be reading his other novels.

This was a gripping and very engaging novel, a comparison to Saw/locked room novels is actually spot on.

There are seven people that wake up and literally have no idea where they are, apart from in a huge house and that they are all on the way to die having been poisoned. They have no idea and they have to find out why in order to save their lives.

Wow, this book is an epic journey and a very well-written novel. I do not want to give too much away but You All Die Tonight will keep you hooked and reading up to very late in the night.

Thanks to Simon Kernick, the publishers and Netgalley for allowing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I love this authors books and have read every one…….this was a great intriguing start but for some reason I could not get i to the book,like any of the characters or fully understand all the financial side of it so was a DNF at 30%,,I will continuing reading this author of course and presume this was just a one off for me

✨4.5 stars✨

OMG wow what an amazing thriller that had me hooked from the first page!

This was the first book that I had read by this author but I really enjoyed his writing as I found myself unable to put it down, hence the reason I read it in one day.

The premise of all the characters waking up in a locked secluded house after being drugged, being contacted by a mysterious voice, and then somehow relating to the Black Lake murders that happened four years prior was really interesting and had me engaged throughout as I absolutely flew through this book.

And then the final twists at the end when I thought the story was over… wow just wow!

I will definitely be on the lookout for other work by this author and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a fast-paced thriller that leaves you guessing till the very end!

I received an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

A fantastic thrilling murder mystery with a brilliant locked room setting. As time counts down and the suspects are under pressure to confess to murder each of them tackles the situation in a different way. It's a fast paced book, with twists and turns every few pages. The final twist is genius!

With many thanks to Netgalley for this free arc and I am leaving this unbiased review voluntarily.

The master of the thriller rollercoaster is back in this ‘locked room’ style story, but with an ingenious twist. The characters are sublime - a corrupt detective, a Russian gangster, an informant, a dodgy business partner, a crazy ex girlfriend and the beneficiaries of the dead man - and are all connected to events four years ago. The pace is on point and will keep you guessing to the very end with the author throwing in twist after twist. Well written, expertly plotted and will leave you breathless. A good ending ties everything up perfectly. Loved it!

Stunning! Just… wow!

Seven people wake up in a house after being drugged. They are all connected in some way to “The Black Lake Massacre”, a mass killing that happened four years earlier. There are cameras everywhere and then a voice comes through and tells them that they have all been poisoned and will die in 12 hours, unless the killer confesses.

Now tell me you don’t want to know what happens?!

This is a fast paced and totally gripping read, narrated by DCI Hemming, one of the investigating officers on the original case, and Colton Lightfoot, an employee of company run by two of the murder victims. All of the seven people have secrets and they all want to live, but in order to get the antidote, one of of them must confess.

5 ⭐️ Thanks to Netgalley, Simon Kernick and Headline for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! I was hooked from the first page. Simon Kernick always writes such gripping stories and this one did not disappoint. The chapters switch between the time 4 years ago of the horrific slaughter of 4 people and the present. The case remains unsolved and those involved have now been brought together by an unknown person and given a deadly poison to encourage the killer to confess when an antidote will be given to the others! From there follows twists and turns galore as the reader is invited to solve the crime along with the participants. None of the characters are very nice people so I didn't particularly have a favourite I was rooting for however I was extremely surprised when the culprit was finally revealed in the closing pages. An excellent read I have no qualms about recommending to anyone who enjoys a good who dun it mystery thriller.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advance copy. All opinions are my own.

Really intriguing who dunnit. Modern day problems, violence, murder and evil but with an Agatha Christie style novel. Everyone a suspect, everyone together in one setting. Once you reach the end and know the full story it makes you want to read it all over again to see what you'd missed the first time around. Thank you for a great book.

Firstly, thank you to Headline for gifting me a proof copy of You All Die Tonight. I also received an ARC with thanks to NetGalley.

It’s 10:24 a.m. and Colton has just woken up with what he believes to be the hangover from hell… only to soon realise his surroundings are unfamiliar. To make matters worse, he's in a remote mansion – and he’s not the only one there.

There are seven people in total, and they quickly realise they all have a connection to the grim Black Lake killings that took place four years prior. An omniscient voice informs them that they have all been poisoned and will die in just 12 hours unless someone confesses their guilt.

What ensues is a desperate search for the antidote and the truth. The timeline switches between the present day at the mansion and an investigation that took place four years earlier. We get multiple characters' viewpoints, each with their own arc – and the more you learn about them, the more unlikeable they become. But that’s exactly why they’ve found themselves in this situation. This thriller will keep you on your toes, guessing, and takes you on a high-octane journey.

I found this a really hard book to get into, but I didn't give up. The premis that there has been a murder and that someone knows who did it, but it is one of several people and the murderer needs to admit to the crime - or they all die, seems OK. But in reality, no one wants to own up and if they own up and are lying - there will be consequences. Well I went along with it, but the more I read the more pointless it seemed. They almost all die! But someone is just pretending to be dead and the ending would have made me slam the book closed and throw it across the room (if I hadn't been reading on a kindle). I felt like I had wasted my time, the ending was so rushed and so totally unbelievable. Not a book I could recommend

I decided to go into this without knowing much of the synopsis. Having enjoyed Kernick work in the past.
Part of me is glad I did this. I found it added a layer of questions. I really didn't know what to expect.
Throughout the book I kept changing my theories on what happened and why.

The writing of this made it easy to get lost in the story. Without getting lost or confused. The book actually felt longer than it is. But not in a bad way. Just that things were constantly happening.

This is my first read by Simon Kernick, and I have to admit that I’m hooked.
This is a clever whodunnit with lots of twists and turns, which will give you whiplash.

Seven people wake up in a remote mansion, all drugged and with no idea how they got there. They are all involved in a multiple murder four years ago, known as The Black Lake Massacre, in which there was only one survivor. They soon find out from a disembodied voice through a camera, that they have all been given a poison, and have just 12 hours to confess to the murder, or they will all die.

This story switches between two timelines…‘four years ago’, and ‘present day’, and is told by two people…former DCI Clive Hemming, and former employee of one of the murdered victims, Colton Lightfoot.

The story was very detailed, and nicely paced, which had me gripped from the start. All the characters were POS, and each had their own secrets, making them all suspects, but not once did I guess ‘whodunnit’.

Thanks to the author, Headline, and NetGalley for providing me with this free ARC, with which I leave a voluntary review.

3-3.5 stars

This is my first Simon Kernick book and I was interested to look at his other ones. I think thrillers are my most read genre and so it was great to discover a new author.

It is quite difficult to review this without spoiling it, so it will probably be a relatively short review.

There are a number of characters who all seem to have something in common but it's not immediately clear how. They're all suspects but they could all be victims. Are main characters are:

Colton Lightfoot (our main narrator, as it were), Adam and Sanna, DCI Hemming, Gary Querell, Kat Warner, and Yuri Karnov. They're our key names.

I can't say I liked the characters much. Not that they're badly written, no, they're well written and I think that's why I had such bad opinions on them. There is almost a caricature-ness about them, but in a good way. They're everything to the extreme: they're rough, lying, desperate, hating, loving, suspicious, brutish- it's all dialled up. But I didn't really have much compassion for any of them and so there wasn't any one that I felt particularly worried for, or anyone I particularly wanted to be found guilty.

It is interesting because for the most part, it's set in just the one location. This can be hard to do well, it can often cause the story to be quite dull and repetitive if you don't have that change in scenery. But it adds heaps of tension to an already tense story, with the added claustrophobia that you may be sharing a room with a murderer.

There are flashbacks to the night of the murders and the immediate aftermath and we get to know how the characters fit together. I think I preferred these scenes. The present scenes are good but limited, whereas the flashback scenes have more scope and there's more to get your teeth into.

You do have to suspend belief a little bit as to how feasible the plot is. But I didn't mind it so much because I think for all thrillers and murder mystery type books, they all need a bit of acceptance that it makes sense in the context of the entire book.

It was an interesting idea: what are you willing to do to save yourself? Can you trust anyone? Can you trust yourself? Who do you suspect? Are you a suspect?

I will say for me that it felt a little too long. Annoyingly, I can't say what would need cutting frrom it in order to shorten it, but I did get the general feeling that it dragged slightly, so maybe it just needs a little tidying up.

It's not the best thriller I've ever read, but it is pretty good and I am interested in his other books. It's needs tidying up slightly for me, but overall it is engaging, intriguing, and surprising. And the conclusion really did surprise me, which is the sign of a good thriller. I had my suspicions abut nothing concrete, and it was more detailed and layered than I initially thought.

Thank you to NetGalley for sending me an ARC of You All Die Tonight.

I absolutely LOVED this novel!!! I’ve never read a book with this premise before, people being drugged and poisoned with only 12 hours to live. The only way to get the antidote? To find who committed a set of murders 4 years before and for them to confess.

It twisted and turned and I kept changing my mind as to who I thought was guilty, to be bashed over the head with another massive twist in the last few pages.

A big, fat, shiny 5 stars from me! Brilliant!