You Better Watch Out

And Then There Were None meets Saw in the deliciously demented latest collaboration between Murray and Wearmouth (after The Stowaway). Hoping to make some easy money just before Christmas, small-time crook Eddie Parker follows an elderly man in a wheelchair and his wife into an upstate New York grocery store after seeing them brandish a large wad of cash. Instead, as he’s pretending to help them load their bags into their minivan, he’s knocked out and awakens in an old, abandoned home without his wallet or cell phone. Soon, he learns that five others have been imprisoned with him inside a ghost town rimmed by an electric fence. While Eddie and his fellow captives—including fraudster Greg Fisher, convicted rapist Damien Hurst, drug dealer Tank, and two young women named Trinity Jackson and Jess Kane, whose pasts remain elusive—scramble to determine what’s going on, they start dying one by one, in spectacularly gruesome fashion. Murray and Wearmouth have plenty of impish fun with their well-worn premise, delivering a slick slasher that’s easy to wolf down in a single sitting. It may lack staying power, but it will satisfy readers who like their holiday fare bitter. (Oct.)