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DEBUT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018
WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018
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 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
Sarah Thomas –
One of the most original books I have ever read. I simply couldn’t put it down.
The characters and setting jump of the page, but the idea of waking up as each different character? Mind blowing!! Great book.
Tash –
Puts a really unique twist on a classic murder mystery.
Richard –
A murder mystery reliving the same day in different characters. It’s so well written it becomes addictive as the layers land over each other, revealing the truth.
It was a bit slow to start, as it relly is a book that that develops the more you read. But as you get further you see how much information you were given in the beginning, it just didn’t mean anything without context.
Philippa –
I couldn’t put it down! What a great twist on a murder mystery. All the characters are cleverly written and come to life on the page. I wish I hadn’t read it so I could read it for the first time again.