Hope to Die is one of the books from the app Storyloom.
Summary
After a disastrously failed journalistic investigation puts you on a downward spiral, your editor sends you to a cutting edge wellness center to get your life back on track. But things go sideways when attendees start getting murdered, and YOU'RE the prime suspect! Your only shot at redeeming your career--and surviving the week--is to solve the mystery yourself.
Chapters
Chapter 1: Last Resort
In a final attempt to turn your life around, you travel to a remote wellness center to cover its opening. But things are about to go anything but well...
Chapter 2: Mind Over Cadaver
Hope seems surprisingly unconcerned by the discovery of a dead body on the property, and you begin to suspect that MAYBE something is not right here.
Chapter 3: Body Language
When another dead body turns up, you decide to investigate the deaths--because you have to prove YOU'RE not responsible.
Chapter 4: Stab in the Dark
You and Alice manage to track down the murder weapon, but it only raises more questions.
Chapter 5: Hack Job
One of the guests has found a way to contact the outside world, but you quickly realize their motives are less than pure.
Chapter 6: Ignorance is Bliss
When yet another guest is murdered, a rival pair of investigators threaten to interfere with your own inquiry. Meanwhile, your surveillance of a lead suspect takes a trippy turn.
Chapter 7: Love You to Death
As if murder wasn't enough, now there's a thief in your midst. You learn more than you ever wanted to know about a guest's disturbing relationship with Hope.
Chapter 8: Grave Errors
You're presented with an unusual opportunity to flush out the killer, but you and Alice will have to put on a convincing performance.
Chapter 9: A Storied History
Memories from your clouded past bubble up to the surface, and you discover that Pryce Manor has secrets of its own.
Chapter 10: Out with a Bang
The tragedies at Pryce Manor come to head as you and Alice track down the killer... but can you make it out alive?
Gallery
Miscellaneous
Spoilers
- Writer Isador "Isa" Pinto revealed that the book is inspired by Clue and Knives Out.[1]
Trivia
- On January 2024, the cost of the chapters was reverted in preparations to Storyloom's closure.
- This is a closed circle mystery, meaning that a murder is investigated and that the murderer comes from a small group of suspects and is not an outsider, which means that the protagonist has to investigate one suspect after the other to figure out who of them is the killer.[2] Another closed circle mystery by PB is The Deadliest Game.
References
| Storyloom Books | |
| Choices Shared Worlds | Open Heart: A Coffee Shop AU • TRR: The Bachelor Party • TRR: To the Maxx • TRR: Escape from Lythikos Keep • BB: Cold Blood |
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| Storyloom Originals | Fake-cation • Heart's Blood • Hope to Die • Hott House • One Minute Mysteries • Robots Can't Date • Royalty 101 • Star Crossed • Still Waters • Summer Fling • Tell Me A Tale • The Groom • Untamed |
| Season of Love | House of Cards • A Spinster's Guide to Marriage • Are You a Heart or Spade? • Blooming Hearts • Knight at the Opera • Mr. Curtis's Scary Stories • The Queen's Birthday |