Eight Detectives: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month

THE BIGGEST MYSTERY CAN BE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . DISCOVER THE YEAR'S MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL 'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over' A. J. FINN 'An elegantly structured, intellectually challenging and completely unique thriller that grips like a vice' SOPHIE HANNAH _______ All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, hiding their secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared. Julia Hart has finally tracked him down. She wants to know what happened to him. But she's about to discover that a good mystery can be murder to solve . . . _______ 'One of the most creative detective novels of the year . . . If not of all time' Samantha Downing 'Intelligent and inventive . . . It's the most fun I've had in ages' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!' Sarah Pinborough **Winner of the Capital Crimes Reader Award for Debut Book of the Year** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GLASS BELL AWARD AND THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL *pre-order Now* 'when Did You Last Read A Genuinely Original Thriller? The Wait Is Over.' A. J. Finn, Bestselling Author Of The Woman In The Window All Murder Mysteries Follow A Simple Set Of Rules. Grant Mcallister, An Author Of Crime Fiction And Professor Of Mathematics, Once Sat Down And Worked Them All Out. But That Was Thirty Years Ago. Now He's Living A Life Of Seclusion On A Quiet Mediterranean Island - Until Julia Hart, A Sharp, Ambitious Editor, Knocks On His Door. His Early Work Is Being Republished And Together The Two Of Them Must Revisit Those Old Stories: An Author, Hiding From His Past, And An Editor, Keen To Understand It. But As She Reads, Julia Is Unsettled To Realise That There Are Things In The Stories That Don't Make Sense. Intricate Clues That Seem To Reference A Real Murder, One That's Remained Unsolved For Thirty Years. Julia Realises She's Unwittingly Entered A Battle Of Wits Where There Can Only Be One Winner. But Grant Will Soon Realise That He Underestimates Her At His Peril...