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BLOG TOUR: Sleep by C.L. Taylor

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn't feel so guilty...
To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare.
Each of the guests have a secret but one of them is lying- about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View Hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna. Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie.
Someone's going to sleep and never wake up...

Publisher: Avon
Pages: 400

C.L. Taylor is a fantastic thriller writer and I flew through Sleep. It has a cracking opening:

If you're reading this then I am no longer alive. Someone has been stalking me for the last three months and if I am dead, it wasn't an accident.

See what I mean? Taylor draws you straight into the thick of it and doesn't let go.
Anna was involved in a horrific car accident which left two of her colleagues dead and one paralysed. She is consumed with guilt and struggling to move forward. She takes a housekeeping position at The Bay View Hotel  on the remote Scottish island of Rum. She is convinced that somebody is stalking her to get revenge for the accident and she believes running away to Scotland will make her safe. Anna settles into the hotel and seven guests arrive for the weekend, a terrible storm hits and they are cut off from the main land. Anna is trapped and begins receiving messages again like the ones at home. It can only be one of the guests which means she is trapped with somebody who wants to kill her. She must work out which of the seven strangers wish Anna to sleep forever.
Sleep is a truly excellent thriller. The setting is perfect and adds so much to the story. It is like a traditional country house murder mystery but with the added element of not being able to get any kind of help.
The plot twists and turns in a brilliant manner, every time I reaches the end of a chapter, I couldn't stop myself from starting the next one. There are many red herrings and there were several occasions where I thought I had worked it out. However, I did not see the final twist coming at the end, it is so good.
Taylor creates such a good atmosphere in this book. Anna's fear is tangible and the hotel setting is claustrophobic and desperate. You want Anna to escape but there is no where for her to go.
I can highly recommend Sleep by C.L. Taylor, it is tense, thrilling and will keep you up all night.

Many thanks to Avon for inviting me to be part of this blog tour, make sure you check out the other stops. 

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