Lie or Die

Kass Kennedy is sixteen. She has been tricked by her best friend, Thea, into auditioning for a new big brother-like reality show called Lie or Die. She actually fails the audition but then, as a contestant mysteriously drops out, she is brought in as first reserve.

In the game, the majority of the inhabitants of the house are players. There are two agents whose job it is theatrically to murder one player per night as nominated by the other players. The players must work out who the agents are with the help of another contestant called the detective in order to survive and win £50,000.

It transpires that someone is killing the contestants for real. Can the contestants find the killer before they all die and what is really going on behind the scenes?

This is a tightly plotted, genuinely frightening psychological thriller. The violence in the last section is very disturbing. The concept is original and thought provoking, making the reader question the nature and role of reality TV and fame in our culture.