The Sunday Times Bestseller and Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
Stuart Turton: Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
528 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you'll read
Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again
It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.
But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.
The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...
If I say "Groundhog Day meets Agatha Christie", I'm sure I'm not the first ... but that's a remarkably accurate description. It's like 8 whodunnits stuffed into a single book, and the accomplishment is pretty incredible. This is a story I'll remember for quite a while.
