The Last Ticket: Murder Games, #6

By O Gränd

What are you going to do when several people need to die?

Vanessa knows the monthly challenges are coming to an end, but before anyone can call it the quits she'll launch the End Game.

Derek and Jeremy has a plan of their own, but are there time to go through with it? Neil is going to win, no question about it, all he has to do is to be the quickest, smartest, best player in the group and victory will be his. Joshua has to do something about Vanessa, after the things she said about Mother he has to, but first, he'll do the monthly challenge.

Five players, four plans, and too many bodies. Who will make it out alive?

• Language: English
• Publisher: O Gränd
• Release date: Jul 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781393263616

Book preview

The Last Ticket

Vanessa stared at the brown envelope. Mary Puppins hadn't barked at the postman—she always barked at the postman. There were very few she didn’t bark at.

The more she stared at the envelope, the more franticly her heart banged in her chest. Was this a joke?

It wasn't a fancy envelope, not some particular kind, just a simple brown wrapping. The same kind she used.

She took a step closer. It looked out of place where it lay off centre on her doormat. Brown padded envelopes shouldn't appear in her flat. She sent them—she didn't receive them.

The address was scrawled in a spidery penmanship. Squinting at it, cold washed down from her shoulders only to gather in her gut. Alice.

No one knew Alice. She studied the letters. They weren't in Derek's writing. His letters bled out on the paper, flowing freely in whatever direction they saw fit. She'd seen him write stuff for years. Things had turned tricky with both Jeremy and Joshua, but Derek was at a safe distance.

He worked at the animal shelter a couple of times a week, and she usually made sure to volunteer during those hours. Hearing him talk made her laugh inside. He had no idea who she was. He walked around and checked on the animals as if he was someone important when she, in fact, had the power to end his life...and she would.

But who, if not Derek, could send her a package addressed to Alice? She guessed someone could have seen her in the shelter's register—it was the only place she used that name.

But it wasn't anyone from the sanctuary, and it wasn't Jeremy. Mary Puppins didn’t bark at Jeremy, but he hadn’t written the address. When he wrote something, you could sense the frustration in the crooked letters and too hard hold of the pen.

It wasn't Joshua. His writing was neat and controlled.

She