The Killer in Room Five – ARC Book Review

Quick Review:- a fast-paced, gripping and intriguing thriller, that will keep you on the edge until the end of the book.

Rating:- 4.5/5

Some disturbing and gory murder scenes in the book.

A terrible confession
In an isolated room in Hollowpines, an infamous psychiatric hospital, Joe Sinclair is confessing to a violent murder.

An impossible crime
Locked away, Joe couldn’t possibly have killed the man, so how does he know so many of the horrifying details?

A detective at her limits
Suspended after a colleague was stabbed on her watch, DC Abby Fox has only just returned to work. But at Hollowpines, she must find out what really happened and how exactly Joe is involved.

Is he to blame, or the only one who can stop the killer?

DC Abby Fox returns back to work, after she was suspended when a colleague was stabbed on her watch. Her first assignment was to visit the infamous mental institution, Hollowpines. Joe Sinclair, one of patients at Hollowpines, had seen a dream where he saw himself killing a man. The exact description of the murder did actually happen to the point where Joe described a part of the killing where the police haven’t released to the media yet. There is no way Joe Sinclair would have committed the murder as he was locked up in the institution so was he just hallucinating or someone was trying to feed the information to him?

This was fast paced and a page turning thriller. Yet this book is not really for the faint-hearted. As a backstory, the author had provided stories of five patients locked in Ward D of Hollowpines many of those backstories are disturbing and too bloody and gory to read. Hollowpines gave an eerie atmosphere particularly when Abby was spending the night at the Hollowpines when she hears mysterious sound of someone walking across the hallway and someone playing the piano in the middle of the night. The killings and descriptions of the murder were too brutal to read. And of course there is tense atmosphere and there is so much twists and turns that everyone in the book seems to be a suspect!

The only thing was, the ending to me was predictable, which lowered my rating for a five star to a 4.5 start rating.

Overall, Sam Holland has done it again, giving us a twisty and gripping thriller that will keep you up all night.

Many thanks to Harper Collins for inviting me to review this book. Many thanks to Netgalley to providing me an ARC for this book. The review is based on my honest opinion only.