One At A Time
gripping and terrifying, and hailed by reviewers as 'the ultimate locked room thriller' (Sun)
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
HIGH PRESSURE OUTSIDE
On a boat heading out into the North Sea, Ellen Brooke steels herself to spend almost a month working underwater with five other divers. It is a close knit team and it has to be: any error or loss of trust in the living quarters could be catastrophic.
EXTREME PRESSURE INSIDE
All is going to plan until one of the divers is found unresponsive in his bunk. He hadn't left the chamber. It will take four more days of decompression, locked away together, before the hatch can be opened. Four more days of wondering if one among you is a killer. The constant struggle not to give way to panic. Because if someone does unlock the door, everyone dies...
READERS ARE CAPTIVATED BY ONE AT A TIME!
'Will Dean always comes up with an innovative thriller, and this is no exception!'
'It was a great twist on a locked room mystery and it had me absolutely gripped - so much so that I read it in a day'
'Once again Will Dean has written a great read that in many ways can be called a modern Agatha Christie'
'The characters were likeable and you cared about them'
'All the stars, a must read!'
' A locked-room, slow burn thriller that has you racing to find out more'
' The tension ramps up as fast as a diving bell plummeting to the ocean floor'
*previously published as The Chamber
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dean (The Last One) shrewdly reimagines the closed-circle murder mystery in this tense and claustrophobic nail-biter set in an underwater hyperbaric chamber. Ellen Brooke is a rarity: a female saturation diver, trained to plunge up to 1,000 feet underwater and do physical labor under hazardous conditions. She and five male colleagues have been hired by an oil company to conduct maintenance work on an undersea structure at the bottom of the North Sea. For a month, the six will live in a small, pressurized chamber, leaving only in a diving bell to reach the ocean floor. The risky work—mistakes in maintaining the appropriate pressure would be fatal—comes with a lucrative payout, vital to each of the six for different reasons. Things get even more difficult when one of Brooke's fellow divers is found dead inside the group's capsule. Though it may have been an accident, the death causes the cohort's trust to fracture—and when a second member of their party dies, to shatter. Is one of them killing the others to keep the money for themselves? Dean maintains unyielding strain on his characters, brilliantly riffing on a classic setup while flexing his gifts for style and characterization. The results are gripping.
