Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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 YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARGosford 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 AND CURRENTLY BEING ADAPTED BY NETFLIX INTO A SEVEN PART SERIESThe mind-blowing new murder mystery from Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water, is OUT NOW.

Complex, fascinating and bewildering.... An astonishingly polished debut, This book blew my mind. It is utterly original and unique. I couldn't get it out of my head for days afterwards, Mind-boggling...what a pleasure it is to give oneself up to the book, to be met with discoveries and thrilling upsets 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, 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, Dazzling … Bracingly original, fiendishly clever … Quite unlike anything I’ve ever read, and altogether triumphant. I wish I’d written it

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.@StuTurton