Reprieve : a novel /
Mattson, James Han,
Reprieve : a novel / James Han Mattson. - First edition. - 406 pages : 22 cm
"On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, "reprieve," they'll win a substantial cash prize... But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who's been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character's journey unfurls and overlaps, deceits and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed-forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe.
9780063079915 0063079917 9780063079922 0063079925
Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 SAN 200-2086
2021010494
Escape room games--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Haunted houses (Amusements)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Novels.
Reprieve : a novel / James Han Mattson. - First edition. - 406 pages : 22 cm
"On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, "reprieve," they'll win a substantial cash prize... But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who's been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character's journey unfurls and overlaps, deceits and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed-forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe.
9780063079915 0063079917 9780063079922 0063079925
Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 SAN 200-2086
2021010494
Escape room games--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Haunted houses (Amusements)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Novels.