HMP BlackRock by Gary Burroughs

HMP BlackRock by Gary Burroughs

A Classic Whodunit wrapped in a modern-day thriller.

As a young man, Ethan Mackay's mother was brutally murdered by a convict freed on parole. Motivated by a powerful sense of social justice, Ethan Mackay is now one of the world's wealthiest men. Billionaire philanthropist and prison reformer, Mackay now runs half a dozen private prisons across the UK. HMP BlackRock is his most ambitious plan yet.

On a small jagged rock, thirty miles off the Scottish coast, lies the island of BlackRock, now one of the most sophisticated and secure Super-Max facilities anywhere in the world. Designed to hold Britain's most evil men and women, BlackRock is the place where evil goes to die. No one sent to BlackRock will ever leave. The locals have named it Devil's Island.

Proud to show off his achievements, Ethan Mackay hosts a tour of the prison, inviting his primary backer, Sir Malcolm Lambert MP and most vocal critic, Esther Friedman, a columnist for The Times, to a carefully planned visit.

Also on the island is Lovelace, daughter of the infamous Jack Lovelace, the Cherwell Valley Strangler, who has flown to the island to visit her father. When the helicopter that flies her to the island develops a technical fault, and a brutal winter storm cuts them off from the mainland, Lovelace is forced to join the VIP tour and is given a room at the Governor's Residence, The Mansion House. She joins Mackay's PA, Grace Mahone, the island's governor, Johnathon Preece and his enigmatic wife, Elouise, as they take refuge from the storm

However, not everything, or everyone, is as they seem, and secrets thought hidden begin to be exposed.

By the following morning, one of them is dead. But the killer hasn't finished yet.

Will anyone survive HMP BlackRock?