One At A Time: gripping and terrifying, and hailed by reviewers as 'the ultimate locked room thriller'...

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Will Dean

One At A Time

gripping and terrifying, and hailed by reviewers as 'the ultimate locked room thriller' (Sun)...

Will Dean

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Hodder Paperback
31 July 2025

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

The master of intense suspense, Will Dean, is back! ONE AT A TIME follows the success of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE LAST PASSENGER.

HIGH PRESSURE OUTSIDE

On a boat heading out into the North Sea, Ellen Brooke steels herself to spend almost a month working underwater with five other divers. They are all being paid handsomely for this work - to be lowered each day inside a diving bell to the sea bed, taking it in turns to dive down and repair oil pipes that lie in the dark waters. It is a close knit team and it has to be: any error or loss of trust in the living quarters could be catastrophic.

EXTREME PRESSURE INSIDE

All is going to plan until one of the divers is found unresponsive in his bunk. He hadn't left the chamber. It will take four more days of decompression, locked away together, before the hatch can be opened. Four more days of bare steel, intrusive thoughts, and the constant struggle not to give way to panic. Mind games, exhaustion, suspicion, and, most of all, pressure. And if someone does unlock the door, everyone dies...

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller from the author of the ""astonishing"" (Ian Rankin) The Last Passenger.

'Horribly, claustrophobically compulsive' GUARDIAN
*previously published as The Chamber

By: Will Dean
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781399734141
ISBN 10: 1399734148
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 31 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. His debut novel in the Tuva Moodyson series, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball's Book Club, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Red Snow was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards, 2019. Black River was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Award in 2021.

Reviews for One At A Time: gripping and terrifying, and hailed by reviewers as 'the ultimate locked room thriller' (Sun)

A first-class suspense thriller that robbed me of both sleep and fingernails * Daily Telegraph * Thriller writing taken to a whole new level. I love it -- Joanna Cannon The tension is almost unbearable. A masterclass in suspense - I absolutely loved it! -- Shari Lapena A tour-de-force. Chilling, intriguing and most entertaining -- Liz Nugent A superb read -- Sarah Pearse Horribly, claustrophobically compulsive * Guardian - Thrillers of the Month June 2024 *