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.

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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

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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

Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown... an exhilarating, unsettling and invigoratingly original read

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

Stuart Turton's remarkable debut is something the reader will not have encountered before

Darkly comic, mind-blowingly twisty, and with a cast of fantastically odd characters, this is a locked room mystery like no other

An original and high concept murder mystery, this is welcome rescue in a sea of psychological thrillers

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

It deserves to be a stonkingly popular hit ...Outstandingly enjoyable and addictive

Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day in the tightly plotted The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Audaciously inventive, gripping and original

A high-concept genre mash-up with soul . Turton has astonishing ambition and narrative skill to match

Murder mystery goes into overdrive in this mind-blowingly original debut . It's whodunnit heaven

A huge, crumbling mansion, a masquerade ball, exploding fireworks, a devastating murder, and Stuart Turton has set the scene for this intricate mystery . Ingenious

A beautifully written, mind-bending whirligig of a book

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

Agatha Christie on time-bending substances . Mind blowing

Gloriously inventive, playful and clever, this is a must for mystery fans. I wish I'd written it myself

I'm green with envy; I wish I'd written this book

Absolute envy-making bloody murderous brilliance

An incredibly enjoyable read. Reads like a classic golden age mystery, yet utterly original. Very, very good.

Wow. Quite brilliant - inventive, fascinating and compulsive

An ingenious dark twist on Groundhog Day . Stuart Turton's ingenious, twist-filled debut is a crime novel with a difference

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

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! It's a work of sheer genius. An amazing, unique book that blew my mind

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

A brilliantly imaginative reworking of the classic country-house murder-mystery