The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award: a mind bending, time bending murder mystery
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4.1 • 130 Ratings
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Publisher Description
PREORDER Stuart Turton's epic The Last Murder at the End of the World - OUT MARCH 2024.
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world...
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Can you solve the mystery of Evelyn Hardcastle?
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD
A WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
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...
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, I PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Our undying respect to any readers who can crack this case at the first time of asking. It’s Groundhog Day for Aiden Bishop as he is trapped inside one of the best murder mysteries we’ve read in a long time. He’s cursed to replay the day of young Evelyn Hardcastle’s murder at a party hosted at her parents' Blackheath home—each day he awakes as a different guest and will only escape this purgatory by solving the mystery. It’s not just the elaborate premise that’s dazzling here; author Stuart Turton writes with a poise and confidence that invites Agatha Christie comparisons.
Customer Reviews
10/10
Best mystery book ever :) the story is so original and every character is so well thought out
Too clever for me
I made it to the end but my goodness that was a complicated book. I am in awe of the author for what they have created but it was too twisty for me. If you like a book that confuses the hell out of you up to the end (and possibly beyond) then go for it.
A fantastic read
A truly amazing book, thick with twists and turns at every possible place.