The Killing Room

A great book that kept me enthralled the entire time! Interesting storytelling and unique storyline. After I finished this book, I bought 2 more books by the same author.

I really liked this book. It caught you from the very beginning and you couldn't wait to get to the end to figure it all out. It didn't take me long to read it since it kept my interest. I would highly recommend this book if you like the thriller/mystery type.

For nine years and three hundred and sixty-four days, the Young Mansion in Maine is an ordinary home. The room that remains locked always is quiet except on the first day of a new decade. A sacrifice of a family member must be made so every ten years a lottery is held and the selected one is left inside the room. This has been going on since 1930 with everyone who spent time in the room dead except for one survivor. Since the room is locked, the other family members assume the people commit suicide except for that one female who lived, but her mind was fried and spent four decades inside a padded cell. The patriarch Howard Young hires former FBI Agent Carolyn Cartwright who has dealt with supernatural cases to find a way to break the curse. Carolyn knows her first step is to learn what happened in 1930 in that room and the second step is to pray she and the Young family survive the truth. Readers will thoroughly enjoy the locked room mystery inside a haunted house tale reminiscent of early King and Koontz. There is a steady growing tension as the answers to the cause percolates, but the solution seems to never boil to the surface. John Manning provides the audience with a chilling tale as the heroine knows there is only one way to learn the truth. Harriet Klausner

I got this book for free and did not expect much. I started reading this book and could not stop. I admit some of this book is not realistic but it was different and will keep you interested until the end. I will most likely read other books by this auther.

Got this for free, and I would have probably never bought it otherwise. But I could not stop reading this book, even though I figured out a major plot point or two early on in the book. It is a ghost story, but with such a neat take on the idea (the family lottery) that it just grabbed my interest from the first sentence and never let go. And it was left a bit open at the end, which I love. Like I said, this one was free. But now I have a new author to follow!

picked it up free for the kindle, great book, like the description says if you like like Dean Koonz you will enjoy this one, fast pace keeps you on edge