Beast

Six Stories, Book 4

By: Matt Wesolowski

Narrated by: Natalie Davies, Oliver Devoti, Toby Hadoke, Steven Hillman, Patricia Jones, Eve Shotton, Melissa Jane Sinden

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories....

In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.

Three young men, part of an alleged cult, were convicted of this terrible crime, which they described as a 'prank gone wrong'.

However, in the small town of Ergarth, questions have been raised about the nature of Elizabeth Barton's death and whether the three convicted youths were even responsible.

King speaks to six witnesses - people who knew both the victim and the three killers - to peer beneath the surface of the case. He uncovers whispers of a shocking online craze that held the young of Ergarth in its thrall and drove them to escalate a series of pranks in the name of internet fame. He hears of an abattoir on the edge of town, which held more than simple slaughter behind its walls, the tragic and chilling legend of the ‘Ergarth Vampire'.

Both a compulsive, taut and terrifying thriller and a bleak and distressing look at modern society's desperation for attention, Beast will unveil a darkness from which you may never return....

©2020 Matt Wesolowski (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

This series is growing on me

Once I understood Wesolowski's style I became a fan. At first I was trying to read the books as having a traditional who done it type ending and sometimes it does, but that is not the point. Listen to the stories, use your imagination, sometimes you will be surprised and other times you will have guessed correctly. Each book gets better, Listen and Enjoy.