Click here to buy this book! Amazon Lulu Adam Shiels Publications Category:  Horror Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN-10:  1847539076 Type: Fiction Pages: 184 Copyright: 2008 ISBN-13: 9781847539076 A trilogy of stories centring around a mugging gone wrong and how the lives of five friends and those close to them change forever. As the body count mounts up, so too do the feelings of guilt.      (He) stood near the centre of the lake, ice-cold water up to just over his waist. He’d done it again and he felt a new surge of guilt for it.     Around him, the surface of the lake was actually frozen over. The only exception to this was the point at which he was standing, the ice given out under the weight of the struggle.     Around the hole the ice was cracked with stress marks. On dry land at the edge of the lake, the ground was covered with a white blanket of snow several inches deep. The only marks in the snow were in the area where he had been sitting, some tracks and a small red stain, beside which lay a knife. Further flakes of snow were lazily falling to the ground around him.     Around his ankles and his knees he could feel something swim past him. He also felt something nip at him with what felt like razor sharp teeth, but he didn’t care.     He started to make his way back to the shore. When he reached the part of the lake that was still frozen over, he had to try and clamber back on top of it, pulling himself out of the water, his arms shaking with both the cold and the strain.     Under normal circumstances he might have wondered at the fact that the lake was frozen enough to take his weight, indeed it had only broken at the point where he was stood in the water after repeated impact.     On his hands and knees, he started to make his way across the ice towards the snowy shore, his breath fogging out in front of him, his whole body starting to violently shiver.     Finally making it back the way that he had come and onto the shore, he collapsed onto his chest, making another imprint in the snow. The extreme feelings of guilt that he was feeling were growing with each second. What had just happened further cementing the feelings that he had already been having.    He pushed himself up from the snow and started to get back to his feet, finally starting to notice the cold, but not caring. Maybe if he died from hypothermia, it would be for the best.     He turned round to look back out at the frozen lake, easily seeing the broken part of the ice where he had been. The water glistened darkly in the hole that he had left there and floating in the water right where he had been seconds earlier was a human body.

Adam Shiels' most fascinating bloodfest yet!
On a night out a group of friends are mugged, resulting in one of them being seriously injured. As these friends try and come to terms with what has happened, guilt festers and spreads through each of them like a poison. Soon they turn on each other and vendettas are forged and acted upon. As the bodies pile up, it seems that no one can live with the guilt...
Adam Shiels is a writer that Spinetinglers has had the good fortune to review before. We at Spinetinglers are always thrilled when he sends us one of his books to critique. And Guilt: A Trilogy did not disappoint us. In this reviewer’s humble opinion, this is the best of Shiels blood-fests. It has all the creepiness of Scary Story without taking the violence too far. Any violent act is totally necessary to the plot and fills its reader’s mind with abject terror. In short, Guilt: A Trilogy is a bloody great read! It is also an interesting exploration of how one random act of violence can cause so much fall-out, changing rational people forever. Guilt is not just pulp fiction, for there is substance between the blood splatters. Guilt does not have the intricate plot of Genocide, but it does have a unique style, which sets it apart from all of Shiels’ other work. The first half of the novel intrigues the reader, whereas the final third of his Guilt: Trilogy fascinates and shocks the reader as the violence escalates, revealing exciting plot twists. In fact, our only criticism would be that the book is too short, but no doubt “Guilt: a Quadrology” will follow.
To conclude, Spinetinglers believes that Guilt: A Trilogy is a gripping read, which scintillates and horrifies in equal measure.
You will be keeping the lights on when you read this one...

Review by spinetinglers.co.uk