Blog Tour: Killer Bodies – Heleen Kist

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

In a prestigious Edinburgh apartment building, gym receptionist Evie whiles away long hours doodling the deaths of residents who’ve annoyed her.

On her birthday of all days, a man slumps off the exercise bike — dead. She tries to get help, but someone has locked the doors and the phones are out of reach.

When another resident collapses inexplicably, Evie realises the deaths resemble those she drew … and her sketchbook is missing.

Was she framed…

… or is she next?

KILLER BODIES is a modern locked room thriller full of old-school ‘impossible crimes’, darkly humorous and with some visual surprises inside! Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware ‘The Turn of the Key’, Catherine Cooper ‘The Chalet’ and Sarah Pearce’s ‘The Sanatorium’ — with a dash of Knives Out.

Heleen Kist is a Dutch, formerly globetrotting career woman who fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow. ‘Killer Bodies’ is her fourth novel, inspired by her hatred of exercise.

She was chosen as an up-and-coming new author at Bloody Scotland 2018. Her novels have been finalists in a variety of awards, both in the UK and USA, and she years to some day ‘be the bride’.

Heleen hopes you enjoy her writing, and would love to hear from you on twitter (@hkist), Faceboook (@heleenkistauthor) or Goodreads. You can also sign up to her newsletter on http://www.heleenkist.com

My thoughts: this is why I don’t like gyms! Evie is trapped in the gym she works in as the receptionist with some of the residents of the fancy apartment building housing it. They’re twelve floors up, nothing’s working and then people start dying in bizarre and sudden ways that mimic the sketches she’s drawn of them. Is the killer using her as inspiration or is there something even stranger going on? Oh, and it’s her birthday.

As the bodies keep dropping, Evie and the increasingly smaller number of residents try to figure out what’s going on, what is killing these people, who is it? Is it one of them? Paranoia grows, this is the worst birthday ever.

I felt for Evie, what a horrible thing to be dealing with, she’s going to be having nightmares for sure. Although she does form a bond with Suki, the new tenant, and that helps them both cope with the horror around them.

The ending lets up the carnage, thankfully, and the survivors get what they need and deserve. Blackly comic and very cleverly done, I really enjoyed this one.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own