The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Original title: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Author: Stuart Turton
Publication format: 11.5 x 18 cm
Number of pages: 512
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN: 978-5-389-17612-6
Publisher: Azbuka
Soft cover
Edition language: Russian
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Stuart Turton's novel - ‘a puzzling, and yet completely organic, a mixture of “Downton Abbey” and “Groundhog Day”, Agatha Christie and serials like “Quantum Leap”’ (Sunday Express). ‘This book drove me mad,’ writes the venerable Sophie Hannah, and is echoed by the author of The Woman in the Window, A. J. Finn: ’Refreshingly original, inhumanly cunning... I wish I'd written it myself.’
So, at the masquerade ball in Blackheath House, the estate of the Hardcastle family, there will be a murder: at the height of the festivities, to the accompaniment of a majestic salute, will die beautiful Evelina, the only daughter and heiress Hardcastle. But she will die more than once: until Aiden Sloan, one of the guests invited to the party, solves the mystery of her murder, the day will repeat itself again and again, invariably ending with a fatal gunshot. The only way to break this vicious cycle is to identify the killer. But each time, after each failed attempt, Ayden wakes up in someone else's body - and each time in a different...
