Sleep

Sleep by C. L. Taylor

Published by Avon Books

April 2019

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty…

To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare.

Each of the guests have a secret, but one of them is lying – about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna.

Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie.

Someone’s going to sleep and never wake up…

Another twisty thriller by C.L.Taylor and this is set on a remote Scottish island in the middle of a storm.  There's someone out to kill housekeeper Anna but which of the seven guests on the island could it be, and will she discover who they are before it's too late to save her own life?  

Anna is escaping from her past, she was involved in a car accident which left two of her work colleagues dead and another paralysed though she walked away with only minor injuries.  She wasn't held accountable for the incident but that doesn't leave her feeling riddled with guilt.  When she sees an advertisement for someone to work in a hotel on the island of Rum she applies for the job and is hired on a trial basis by owner David.  She breaks up with her boyfriend Alex, gives him their flat and flees the country.

Having had the suspicion that someone was following her back in London, it's a relief for Anna to stop looking over her shoulder all the time, however it isn't long after the guests have checked in that Anna starts to feel that again someone is constantly watching her.  Mysterious messages all about sleep keep appearing and Anna knows what it is like to want to be able to sleep properly again - something that she hasn't managed to achieve since the accident occurred.

So which of the guests could be interested in her?  She has met none of them before and there seems to be no link to her past with any of them.  As the impending storm comes crashing down on the island, Bay View hotel is cut off from everyone on there which leaves Anna trapped in a hotel with someone who wishes her harm.

This has a ring of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None to it but obviously in a modern context.  At first glance the guests all appear to be normal holiday makers but as the story progresses you become suspicious of one character and then another until you start to feel that they all did it!  Can you guess the killer before they strike one more time though?

Happy Reading

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