When I reached the second (Jésus, a wealthy and arrogant art dealer), however, I knew I was getting into something good.
The first – about Violet, who works night shifts – is good, but not remarkable it's a readable, workmanlike tale of modern life and its cruelties, depicting an exhausted woman struggling to stay afloat (and awake). There are – you guessed it – thirteen stories in all.Įvery story is engrossing, though they vary in quality. Each chapter concentrates on the story of an individual resident these characters hail from both sides of the building, and sometimes from outside it. It's divided into two parts, and they are polar opposites: a set of expensive luxury apartments on one side, a designated block of 'affordable housing' on the other. Banyan Court is the creation of billionaire entrepreneur Tobias Fell (who supposedly inhabits the penthouse, though nobody ever seems to see him). His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.The debut novel from Jonathan Sims, best known as the creator and star of the horror podcast The Magnus Archives, revolves around a London building. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common - they've all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building's walls.īy the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation.
All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A haunted house tour-de-force from the creator of THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES podcast.Ī dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development.
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