Brand new Horror novel from acclaimed author Iain Rob Wright. Can you figure out the secrets of “the room” and escape before it’s too late?Cheryl is about to learn that the people she works with are keeping a secret. One they are willing to kill for.Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn’t have a choice when she’s asked to go on a “company outing.” She and six of … outing.” She and six of her colleagues are to be locked inside a room with only their wits to aid them. If they escape in time, there’ll be prize money. Fail, and the repercussions could be deadly.
Brand new chiller novel from Iain Rob Wright. Grab your copy of Escape! today, because everyone loves trying to figure out a mystery before the time runs out.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
An absolute wonderful read. Had me guessing from the beginning.
Excellent fast paced story with an unseen twist at the end.
WOW!!!… what another brilliant book which is truly horrifying and
twisted, this put’s another twist to the meaning of “TEAM BUILDING” at
work.
Makes you wonder about the people you work with.
Escape! is one of the most unique, gruesome, and horrifying books I’ve ever read, and I loved every minute of it!
Great thriller with a lot of twists and turns. Kept me on the edge of my seat.
So intense I couldn’t stop until I reached the end.
If you enjoy Stephen King or James Herbert, then you’ll enjoy this book too.
Escape! Is scary because something like this could really happen and people are really that sick!
Escape! is so thrilling that I stayed up late and just kept on reading until I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore.
You just can’t put this book down, a real page turner.
Iain takes the latest popular entertainment experience “the escape room” and twists it turning it into another page turner, keeping you trapped in the pages until you escape at the end.
An intense joyride filled with a solid shock and awe factor that will keep you turning pages.
Spine tingling from the first line to the mind-blowing conclusion! A must read for thrill seekers.
Will never, ever, do an escape room after this!
A great read – excellent plot and another one to keep me up well past my bedtime!more
My friends and I have been to a few escape rooms so I was excited to read this. It was an excellent book. It is action packed with crazy twists and an unexpected ending. I really enjoyed it and was sorry when it ended.
I can’t believe how fast I devoured this book. I could not put this book down. I enjoyed all of the characters and how all of the dirty secrets were slowly revealed throughout the twisted games. This was quite a fun novel. I highly recommend this book “Escape! : A Novel of Horror & Suspense” by Iain Rob Wright, who has become one of my all time favorite horror authors. His writing is amazing and he really knows how to keep the reader in suspense; and he definitely has the talent to really scare people. I still can’t believe how fast I read this book!!! Wow!! What a read!!!
This was a great thriller and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. A group of work colleagues do an escape room as part of team building work function set up by their boss, or so they think. Our main character, Cheryl, wasn’t supposed to originally go on the activity. But the girl who was originally invited asked her to take her spot. What Cheryl thinks is her getting out and doing something different then worrying about her widowed mother turns into the scariest experience of her life. This escape room isn’t like the fun ones that are so popular. This one has a sinister edge and whoever is running it knows the sins of the people originally invited. Cheryl, an innocent victim, has to help people she has never been fond of in the first place while learning deadly secrets that put her and all their lives in danger. This was such a great premise for a horror novel. And I say horror because it had me scared on what was going to happen next. And I did not see so many of twists and turns coming, especially the ending. And this book left it open for more and I definitely want to know what happens next. This narrator did a great job expressing the suspense of this novel. This book was written with UK lingo and I am in the US. So I picked up a few new words that are now part of my vocabulary. That’s how into this story I got. Thriller fans, this is the book to read/listen. Just warning, it will consume you until the end and even after.
Justice. It’s an important theme of this book.
I didn’t know what to think when it first started, but once things started to take off, I couldn’t stop listening. I binged the entire audiobook in one setting. Cheryl is the new girl at the office. She wants to fit in, but it seems as if no matter how hard she tries, she doesn’t connect with her coworkers. When a “company outing” announces everyone’s name but hers, she’s off put. Thanks to a mixup, she ends up going, and wishes more than anything that she hadn’t.
This is a suspenseful read plotwise and characterwise. When the story begins, we don’t know much about any of the characters, but as the story trudges along, we’re given the backstory to each and why they’ve landed themselves in the escape room. Everyone has secrets, each secret worse than the last.
There’s plenty of torture and gore, the perfect dash of horror to compliment the suspense.
Aubrey Parsons’ narration was perfect, bringing the characters to life. He had a unique voice for each male character which I found especially interesting.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
My current favorite horror author tied with Stephen king. Great book!
Kind of makes you think of Agatha Christie’s great mystery, “And Then There Were None” getting mugged in a dark alley by …. Saw. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Escape! By Ian Rob Wright is a horror and suspense novel set in an escape room. It was a team-building exercise for Alscon Tiles set up in response to an offer from an event organizer named Retribution, Inc. John, the company manager, had asked Howard Moss (Happy) the office manager to check out the company. The name of the event organizer had triggered no signals to the two officers that anything was wrong. Even when Retribution, Inc. had directed which six employees should show up at the remote farm where the exercise was to take place, no danger signals bothered the employees.
Instructions from the events company directed that the six participants would find instructions upon their arrival at the farm. They were to be one of several teams; the winning team would receive USD 1000 each. After a 90-minute time limit spent trying to solve puzzles and escape the room, the team would be taken to a hotel whether they solved the problem or not. At the hotel, officials would announce the winner. It sounded like a fun couple of days from a weekend.
Problems developed before the team even left the office on the Friday before the event. Cheryl was a comparatively new employee; she had only been with the company for three months. She hadn’t been invited to this event, and she was resentful. When Maggie asked Cheryl to replace her on the trip, Cheryl was still put off and didn’t want to go. Once Maggie explained it was her wedding anniversary with husband Andrew, Cheryl reluctantly agreed to join the six-person team for the exercise.
The second problem happened as the team assembled in the countryside farm buildings. Maggie showed up, and the six-person team was now seven. If Cheryl was resentful before, she would be seething if she were forced to return home. John, CEO, and owner of Alscon Tiles decided an exception could be made, and Cheryl was permitted to join the team. The next problem was what to do next. No humans met the group with instructions. One part of the challenge was that group members would have to seek, find, and follow instructions. The group found a set of instructions saying that all personal possessions; cellphones, watches, purses, and wallets were to be placed in a collection basket. The group then proceeded to the source of a car horn sounding off. Although they didn’t find the car, they found a rope attached to a trapdoor leading to an underground location. The group entered.
The facility was constructed by joining a group of shipping containers together. The containers were further divided into locked cells on either side of a connecting aisle. Each cell could be unlocked following a code or when a clue was correctly interpreted. The team had ninety minutes to solve all the puzzles and escape from the containers. Once they descended, the ladder they had used self-destructed.
The team was new employee Cheryl, John the owner/manager, Monty the company’s top salesman, Howard the office manager, Maggie from accounts, Leo the purchasing manager, and Alfie, a junior sales representative. Once committed to the idea of escaping from the constructed room, the rules changed. A cover slid over the top of the entrance, and a new digital countdown clock began counting down. The team had seven days, not ninety minutes, to escape. One of the cells had food and water for seven days, but six people. The event organizer had not named Cheryl as a participant.
The group, minus Cheryl, had been picked by an evil entity. Each of six members of the team had committed a sin that offended the leader of Retribution, Inc. One person was a murderer; one was a thief. Others were adulterers; every person of the six had done something wrong. Each would face a puzzle and be given a chance to confess their sin in front of the rest of the group. Failing to admit wrongdoing was a death sentence.
The set-up for the novel takes three chapters. There are seven more chapters of tension, horror, and death that warrant the novel’s stated genre as a horror novel. This book is a fast read and a page-turner. It is psychological as readers watch the group relationships change as sins are revealed. I gave this book five Amazon stars because of the subtlety with which crimes were uncovered and the way character clues supported moral failures of (almost) each character.
This book sells for USD 4.99 on Amazon but is available as a free read on Kindle Unlimited.
Pretty good storyline. Keeps your attention. A few interesting twists thrown in that while not necessarily surprising were good for the story in order to keep it progressing.