Guess Who

By: Chris McGeorge

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

The rules are simple.

But the game is not.

At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He parlayed that fame into a gig as TV’s “resident detective,” solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk show mysteries like “Who is the father?” and “Is he cheating?”

Until, that is, Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room. Around him, five strangers are slowly waking up, as well. Soon they discover a corpse in the bathtub and Sheppard is challenged to put his deductive skills to the test. One of the people in the room is the killer. He has three hours to solve the murder. If he doesn’t find the killer, they all will die.

An ingenious, page-turning debut, Chris McGeorge’s Guess Who matches the high-wire plotting of classic “locked room” mysteries into the unstoppable pacing of the modern-day thriller.

Lots of twists and turns

This story will always keep you guessing. It was a good story. It’s very entertaining. It goes back and forth in time which I’m not fond of. It makes sense why the author wrote it that way. I just prefer a story that doesn’t jump around as much.

Not What I Expected

The synopsis of the story does not really fit. I was expecting the protagonist to be a genius amateur detective with a locked room mystery that would allow the reader to follow along and put together the clues. I don’t want to give too much away but suffice to say that this is not what is presented here. Not that it is a bad story it’s just not what was advertised. It was a little too out there for me with all its twists but it did keep me listening and in suspense. I think had I not been expecting something else I would have enjoyed it more.