The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Stuart Turton's 2018 debut is a fiendishly clever country house mystery with a high-concept twist: the protagonist must solve a murder while reliving the same day eight times, each time inhabiting a different guest's body. The mechanics are dazzling — each host offers different information, different access, different moral complications — and Turton orchestrates them with the precision of a chess grandmaster. The novel owes obvious debts to Agatha Christie and Groundhog Day, but its ambition and execution make it entirely its own beast. Few debut novels have been this assured or this much fun.
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AI reading intelligence"The concept sounds gimmicky but it's executed with genuine brilliance. I was furiously taking notes on a second read."
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Stuart Turton does something I didn't think was possible anymore — he reinvents the murder mystery. Our protagonist must solve a killing while leaping between eight different bodies, reliving the same day until he gets it right. It's dizzying, delicious, and genuinely unlike anything else I've recommended. Keep a notebook handy, and trust that the puzzle pieces will fall into place.
Book Details
- Publisher
- SONATINE
- Published
- January 1, 2018
- Pages
- 526
- Language
- English
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