The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

  • Harry Illingworth

  • Crime, Mystery

  • February 2018

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    • Poland: Wydawnictwo Albatros

    • Portugal: Grupo Almedina

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    • Turkey: Yabanci

    • UK & Commonwealth: Bloomsbury Raven

    • Ukraine: Vivat

    • USA: SourceBooks

​'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

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…

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Selected Praise

“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, author of the new Hercule Poirot Mysteries
“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

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