Matt takes back the pen for Chapter Three and promises to steer the story back on course. We return to Willow Manor moments after Mollie’s dramatic revelations, where the guests are still gathered around the mysterious death of Augustus Smythe and tensions in the house are beginning to rise.

Detective Ian Chalk finally re-enters the story — and it quickly becomes clear that more has been going on behind the scenes than anyone realised. As Chalk and D.I. Brie Rockfort begin to take control of the investigation, new information emerges about Smythe’s life, his finances, and his relationships with the people in the room. With every revelation, the motives of the Willow Manor residents start to look increasingly suspicious.

Matt also introduces more of the household — completing the picture of the “Willow Manor Six” — while the detectives push the investigation forward and uncover clues suggesting Smythe may have been planning something drastic before his death.

By the end of the chapter, tensions are high, secrets are bubbling to the surface, and one final discovery promises to change everything… just as the detectives prepare to reveal what might be the most important clue yet.

Matt and Mollie are writing a novel… together. They alternate chapters in a bid to create a gripping murder mystery. The catch? They have completely different ideas about what the book should be.

Hosted by Matt Edmondson and Mollie King, with ever-patient narrator and referee Steffan Powell, each has just one week to continue the story — reacting, escalating, derailing and occasionally rescuing the plot from the other. Steffan reads the chapters aloud and tries to keep the whole thing vaguely coherent.

What starts as a simple premise becomes a competitive, unpredictable battle of twists, cliffhangers and creative one-upmanship.

Part comedy show, part audiobook, part social experiment — and by the end, there’s a complete original novel, written in real time.

Welcome to the story.

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