Five, Ilona Bannister

A fouth wall-breaking cracker of a thriller.

Five people, plus assorted witnesses, wait on a platform for a commuter train into London Victoria. In five minutes it’ll arrive and one of the five will die.

By the time the death occurs you will know all five of their stories, the gambler, the businessman, the old lady, the mother, her handful of a young son, and that should be enough to guess who the victim will be, but did you guess right? and even though only one dies, the lives of the remaining four (and the witnesses) will be forever changed in unexpected ways.