I was a little disappointed in this one.

It starts out well enough. A group of people awaken locked in a strange place. There’s a corpse there and our main character is tasked to solve the murder…or they all die.

Unfortunately, it simply didn’t work for me.

Our characters were unlikeable – even our main character. This was purposely done and is all explained satisfactorily, but I really had no investment in having these people live past this ordeal.

We also get the ‘VILLIAN REVEAL’. You know, when instead of ending everything, our Villain needs to vomit out what they did, why they did it, gloat a little, twist an imaginary mustache, talk some more, give their victim a chance to maybe fight back, talk some more, and…whew!

I found the who, what, where, and why of everything to be very…complex. Not confusing. I understood it. I just didn’t understood why it needed so many moving parts.

So, this one didn’t live up to my hopes.

Guess Who by Chris McGeorge offers up a seriously juicy plot:

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.



As soon as I read the synopsis, I knew I had to read this. It reminds me a little of the game Clue! Of course, this book is probably nothing like the beloved board game, but I am totally into a story that eliminates suspects like Murder on the Orient Express. I’m super excited to get started on this book. And check out the book cover, I love it! Even if you knew nothing about the story inside, wouldn’t you want to read based on the brilliant jacket design?

Morgan Sheppard solved a murder when he was a schoolboy and went on to media success on reality television where he "solves" mysteries like "did my partner cheat on me". He enjoys the celebrity lifestyle a little bit too much, overindulging in drugs, alcohol and sex.

He wakes up in a hotel room, handcuffed to the bed with a group of people and a dead man in the bathroom. A threatening masked figure on a closed circuit television tells him that he has 3 hours to solve the crime or the hotel will be blown up.

This is a really riveting mystery. It would appeal to people who like puzzles and classic closed circle mysteries. I've already recommended it to people.

3.5 stars. Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Publishing for an advance copy of this cleverly plotted locked room mystery. It is reminiscent of the old fashioned locked room mysteries of my youth but with a modern twist.

The main character is Morgan Sheppard who gained fame for solving the murder of a teacher when he was 11 years old. He was given a reality show where he pretends to solve problems, but I fact the TV staff does the work and presents the solutions to him frequently by cue cards on air. The show, Resident Detective, is a big hit. Morgan always wanted to be famous and now he is but had become a drunkard, and dependent on pills.

One evening in Paris, he picks up an attractive woman. In the morning he finds her gone from what was his hotel room in Paris. He awakes in a state of grogginess to find himself shackled in a London hotel room with 5 strangers plus a dead body in the bath. The room is soundproof and locked. What can be going on? A man wearing a mask appears on the TV screen. Morgan is told that he must solve the mystery of which one of the rooms’ ‘guests’ has murdered the man in the bathroom. The mystery must be solved within 3 hours or everyone in the room will die along with all those in other parts of the hotel which has been rigged with explosives.

Morgan, who has played a fake TV detective realizes this is a daunting if not impossible task. None of their cell phones work and there is much suspicion and conflict within the room. He is suffering from alcohol withdrawal. Who is the man who has taken them prisoner? Why? What is the connection between the guests and also how are they connected to the dead man in the bath?

Recommended to those who loved the classic mysteries where all the suspects were gathered in one room. I enjoyed this book and hope there will be a sequel.

Right or not I look at these books from NetGalley as I would those borrowed from the library. If it does not hold my interest then I feel no obligation to continue to read the book. Those I do not finish get only three stars from me. 'Guess Who' has poor character development. The jumping back and forth in the timeline was utterly confusing. Those whose preferred genre is who-dun-its may enjoy this book but it did nothing for me.

This book was a 4.5 star book for me. The premise reminded me a lot of saw and definitely kept me engaged. I thought that it was full of suspense and that the author did a great job of delivering the story in a manner that kept the readers wondering and needing to know exactly what happened and who did it! Surprised me!
Will be reviewing in Chapter Chatter Pub closer to deadline!

Chris McGeorge has taken an old plot point, swirled it around, and come up with a new way to tell the Locked Door mystery.
Morgan Sheppard wakes up, handcuffed to a bed with no memory of why he is there, how he got there, and who did this to him. A few minutes later four more people start to wake up in the room around him. All of them are strangers to him, but he is the only one handcuffed. What the f**k is going on?
That's the premise for Guess Who, a book that takes so many twists and turns, I had a pain in my neck after finishing it, but it was a delicious pain nonetheless.
None of the cast of characters are likable - and Iiked that! - none of them have supposedly met before, so what do they have in common?
One thing.
The dead man lying in the room's bathroom tub.
Intrigued yet? I was. Right up until the last page. So worth the read!
I was given an arc of this book from Netgalley and Harlequin, so thanks for that!! I highly recommend this story to those of you who like locked room mysteries, and are willing to try and solve the mystery along with the cast.

Chris McGeorge's debut psychological thriller plops the reader into the locked room situation with six people one of which is a killer, and a corpse in the bathroom. Morgan Sheppard is a notoriously famous TV resident detective, in a show of a similar to the ghastly Jeremy Kyle Show, decides who is telling the truth .This is a gig he acquired on the based on his history as a child, when at the tender age of 11 years old, he solved the murder of his Math teacher at his school, believed to have hanged himself.
This is a fast paced, tense and addictive read that has you racing to find out who the killer is. There is twist after twist in the plot.

Although billed as a murder in a licked room kind of deal, this story turns out to be a lot more complex. A group of strangers find themselves ins locked rom with a dead body in the bathroom. How did they get, there? why, who did this?
The unraveling is a bit strange and the ultimate resolution is complex in its engineering.
I thought I would enjoy the story more, but I find some of it a bit implausible.
The ending tied things up well, enough, overall its a fine, fast read.

Morgan Sheppard was billed a “detective” when he solved a murder at age eleven. As an adult he’s made his living off that case by appearing on sleazy talk shows, “investigating” accusations of cheating, lying stealing and worse. Life isn’t great by Sheppard gets by. Then one day he wakes up in a strange room, handcuffed to a bed. Five strangers are also waking up around him. In the bathroom is a body and Sheppard must determine which one of the five people in the room with him is the killer. He has 24 hours to solve the crime, or all six of them will be killed. I loved the premise to this story, and McGeorge delivers on that promise. A truly twisted tale of murder and revenge