Room One Nineteen

by Luke Keioskie

This novel is set in the Green Institute for Wayward Adolescents, specifically in Room 119 where Dr Carl T. Luskan meets a group of students each week for his radical new therapy called Elementary Creative Thought. But we know right from the start of the book that something very wrong has happened in this room . Dr Luskan is dead and his colleague has put together this book which includes transcripts of Dr Luskan's taped notes about each of the students, and their writings completed in the course of the treatment.

Some bad behaviour has been going on but who might be the trouble makers and who are the troubled?

The best parts of this book are the stories which are presented as being written by the six students, each of whom has had a troubled past and is being treated for some crime or major problem which Dr Luskan has not been informed about. Dr Luskan himself seems to be becoming increasingly anxious as the story goes on, leading to a thrilling conclusion - unless you are smart enough to work it out for yourself.