Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They've never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today.
That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.
Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People of Choice are appearing around the globe; it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader that does not seem to exist.
How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
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(@OrendaBooks, 14 September 2019, 300 pages, ebook, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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The author has been on my radar since I read and love his crazy but fantastic book Hinton Hollow Death Trip earlier this year. This uses the same style and techniques. The book uses a unique style, mostly a second person POV that I haven't come across very often. There's something I really like about the tone and feeling this creates. One of the characters is Detective Pace who also features in Hinton Hollow Death Trip but this is not traditional detective fiction by any stretch of the imagination. The book is mostly focalised through the leader of the cult whose identity is not revealed until the end. Each chapter is comprised of smaller chunks, vignettes which vary between ramblings of the cult leader about famous serial killers and how to form a cult and the various people's he targets. This is a compelling, fantastic read.
