Let's Play Murder
Squid Game meets Agatha Christie in this locked-room virtual reality murder mystery, where the only option is to win – or die trying…
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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.
Kesia Lupo studied history at the University of Oxford and creative writing at Bath Spa. Now, she's a children's fiction editor living in the US with her husband. Her first two novels, We Are Blood and Thunder and We Are Bound by Stars, were fan favourites set in a highly original fantasy world. Let’s Play Murder is her third novel published by Bloomsbury.