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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018
Stuart Turton
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD 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 this year Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again ... Read more 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 Show Less
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a freelance travel journalist who has previously worked in Shanghai and Dubai. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is the winner of the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. @Stu_Turton
Reviews for The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018
Complex, fascinating and bewildering.... An astonishingly polished debut
Marcel Berlins
The Times
This book blew my mind. It is utterly original and unique. I couldn't get it out of my head for days afterwards
Sophie Hannah
Mind-boggling...what a pleasure it is to give oneself up to the book, to be met with discoveries and thrilling ... Read moreupsets at every turn in the labyrinth... it's the story that triumphs, with a series of last-minute revelations as dazzling as the finale of a fireworks show
Guardian
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a mind-bending mash-up of Agatha Christie, Quantum Leap and Groundhog Day. If it isn't made into a film in the very near future, I'll eat my deerstalker
Jake Kerridge
Sunday Express
Dazzling ... Bracingly original, fiendishly clever ... Quite unlike anything I've ever read, and altogether triumphant. I wish I'd written it
A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown... an exhilarating, unsettling and invigoratingly original read
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily Express
I hereby declare Stuart Turton the Mad Hatter of crime. Seven Deaths is unique, energising and clever. So original, a brilliant read ... I tore through it
Ali Land, author of Sunday Times bestseller Good Me, Bad Me
Stuart Turton's remarkable debut is something the reader will not have encountered before
Financial Times
Darkly comic, mind-blowingly twisty, and with a cast of fantastically odd characters, this is a locked room mystery like no other
Sarah Pinborough
An original and high concept murder mystery, this is welcome rescue in a sea of psychological thrillers
Stylist, `The 20 Must-Read Books of 2018'
One of the most inventive, gripping and electrifying thrillers to be published this year ... This is a novel with the power to revolutionise the thinking of anyone who claims not to enjoy reading. The perfect winter thriller
Attitude
It deserves to be a stonkingly popular hit ...Outstandingly enjoyable and addictive
Sunday Express
Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day in the tightly plotted The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Good Housekeeping
Audaciously inventive, gripping and original
Louise O'Neill, author of Only Ever Yours and Asking For It
A high-concept genre mash-up with soul ... Turton has astonishing ambition and narrative skill to match
Books of the Year
Daily Telegraph
Murder mystery goes into overdrive in this mind-blowingly original debut ... It's whodunnit heaven
Saga
A huge, crumbling mansion, a masquerade ball, exploding fireworks, a devastating murder, and Stuart Turton has set the scene for this intricate mystery ... Ingenious
Psychologies
A beautifully written, mind-bending whirligig of a book
Adam Hamdy
Dazzling in its complexity, astonishing in its fiendishness and shocking in its sheer audacity. Every page, every character, and every deliciously dark secret is an absolute treat
Anna Stephens, author of the Godblind trilogy
Agatha Christie on time-bending substances ... Mind blowing
Eva Dolan
Gloriously inventive, playful and clever, this is a must for mystery fans. I wish I'd written it myself
Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries
I'm green with envy; I wish I'd written this book
Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You
Absolute envy-making bloody murderous brilliance
Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
An incredibly enjoyable read. Reads like a classic golden age mystery, yet utterly original. Very, very good.
Ragnar Jonasson Wow. Quite brilliant - inventive, fascinating and compulsive
Tom Lloyd, author of the Twilight Reign series
An ingenious dark twist on Groundhog Day ... Stuart Turton's ingenious, twist-filled debut is a crime novel with a difference
Radio Times
The book is outstandingly enjoyable and addictive and, by the end, you may realise that you've been so preoccupied with Turton pulling your brain in all directions that you haven't noticed he's got your heart in an iron grip as well
Jake Kerridge
Sunday Express
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! It's a work of sheer genius. An amazing, unique book that blew my mind
Sarah J Harris
An Agatha Christie yarn tumbling Through The Looking Glass ... This utterly original thriller is brilliantly plotted and a real page-turner, with mind-bending twists and turns
Herald
A brilliantly imaginative reworking of the classic country-house murder-mystery
Countryman
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