Ink Ribbon Red
A dark and addictive thriller for fans of The Hunting Party and The Guest List
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- 8,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Six Friends. One Game. One Murder. Can You Tell Fact from Fiction?
‘The master puppeteer of literary crime’ JANICE HALLETT
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May, 1999:
Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday.
The host insists they play a game.
Each will write a story about one friend murdering another.
Points are given for plausibility.
No secret, grudge or affair is off limits.
Six stories. Six murders.
And now six unexpected motives.
Because this game is about to get murderously real . . .
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‘Today's greatest exponent of playful detective fiction’ GUARDIAN
‘A new spin on the traditional country house murder . . . when the style is this good, it’s worth the investment’ Irish News
Praise for Alex Pavesi's sensational bestseller, Eight Detectives
‘One of the year's most entertaining crime novels’ Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month
‘So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!’ Sarah Pinborough
‘A wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to the golden age of crime fiction’ Mail on Sunday
‘A box of delights . . . Pavesi's revelations are completely unexpected, right up to the end’ New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pavesi (The Eighth Detective) impresses with this head-spinning meta-mystery. In 1999, antiques dealer Anatol invites five close friends to celebrate his 30th birthday at his family estate in Witshire. The festivities revolve around a parlor game Anatol has devised called Motive Method Death. Participants draw two names—that of a victim and that of a murderer—from martini glasses, then dream up one another's deaths in the form of short stories or lurid sketches. Pavesi ups the ante by refusing to differentiate between rounds of Motive Method Death and real life, leaving readers to wonder, for long stretches, about the veracity of a fatal fire or a gruesome car accident or an impalement on a sundial. Meanwhile, the author probes the backstories of Anatol and his "friends," unearthing incidents of blackmail, backstabbing, and attempted murde. Early on, Anatol acknowledges that his game owes a debt to Agatha Christie's remote-location classics and the gothic spirit of Shirley Jackson; the novel does justice to the comparisons. With shrewd plotting and a bewitching atmosphere, Pavesi ensures that fans of Anthony Horowitz will delight in staying one step ahead of his befuddled characters.
