| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
406 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"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. Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Escape room games -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Haunted houses (Amusements) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Horror fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780063079915 (hardcover) |
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0063079917 (hardcover) |
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9780063079922 (paperback) |
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0063079925 (paperback) |
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