This mind bending thriller is a cross between Agatha Christie at her bloodiest and Groundhog Day. A sick sort of house party is taking place in a dilapidated mansion in a secluded forest some time in the distant past. At 11pm the host’s daughter Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered. The protagonist Aiden wakes up each day in the body of a different houseguest. He will continue to do so, up to seven times, until he discovers who murdered Evelyn Hardcastle. And he’s not the only one doomed to repeat and repeat until the crime is solved.
Seven Deaths a ripper read, so smart and so unlike anything else out there in the thriller world. Read it and don’t worry if, like me, you can’t always follow the complicated plot machinations involved in moving through time and different settings and odd bodies – those are for the author to worry about. A novel like this is simply to be savoured.
