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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly. Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive. Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night. . . . With edge-of-your-seat tension and a gripping mystery, Holly Jackson has written another instant classic! And don't miss Holly Jackson's latest mystery thriller, The Reappearance of Rachel Price!
作品考察・見どころ
ホリー・ジャクソンが描く本作の真髄は、移動する密室という極限状態で剥き出しになる、人間の醜悪さと気高さの対比にあります。著者は、逃げ場のない空間に時間制限という残酷なスパイスを加え、登場人物たちが築いた信頼を瞬時に崩壊させ、読者を息もつかせぬ心理的泥沼へと引き摺り込みます。 誰が標的なのかを巡る疑心暗鬼は、単なる謎解きを超えて読者に倫理的な問いを突きつけます。張り巡らされた伏線が回収されるとき、物語は過去の罪が未来を侵食する恐怖を鮮烈に浮き彫りにします。一文字ごとに心拍数が跳ね上がる、至高のサスペンスをぜひ体感してください。
