The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
By Stuart Turton
This book is a REALLY cool mystery/sci-fi, it has themes of Agatha Christie and then some time travel elements. Really well done. I can't even imagine the intricate plotting and time it took for this. The author said he had to make an excel spread sheet to keep all the time lines and characters in line.
A gentleman wakes up in a manor house during a party with several unique guests, and doesn't remember anything about himself, or why he is there. He soon discovers there will be a murder that night, and it is his job to find the killer. Tricky though, because he has to relive the day several times in different host bodies and see the day unfold from their perspective using that specific host body's skills to learn more about the murder. Each time he wakes up he remembers the previous body he was in and what he learned. A woman named Anna seems to be his ally in all this and carries a book around showing everything they have learned, She tries to find him at different points in each day to talk to him without revealing anything she already knows. She relives the same day too, but in the same body, and I know this sounds super convoluted and hard to keep up with, but I was able to follow it pretty well. A few times I had to flip back through because I got off track. It is an interesting idea, and a plot twist at the ending I did not see coming at all! I couldn't put this book down, I just had to see how it played out at the end!
This is shelved in our Adult Fiction section of the library.
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