“Mind-boggling...what a pleasure it is to give oneself up to the book, to be met with discoveries and thrilling upsets at every turn in the labyrinth... it’s the story that triumphs, with a series of last-minute revelations as dazzling as the finale of a fireworks show.” - The Guardian
“Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown... an exhilarating, unsettling and invigoratingly original read.” - Charlotte Heathcote, Daily Express
“Stuart Turton’s remarkable debut is something the reader will not have encountered before.” - Financial Times
“It deserves to be a stonkingly popular hit ...Outstandingly enjoyable and addictive.” - Sunday Express (London)
“Audaciously inventive, gripping and original.” - Louise O'Neill, author of Only Ever Yours and Asking For It
“Murder mystery goes into overdrive in this mind-blowingly original debut … It’s whodunnit heaven.” - Saga
“This novel is so ingenious and original that it’s difficult to believe it’s Turton’s debut. The writing is completely immersive. . . . Turton masterfully creates a natural flow while jumping through different characters on different days. . . . Stuart Turton is an author to remember.” - Booklist
“Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown . . . an exhilarating, unsettling and invigoratingly original read.” - Daily Express (UK)
“I hereby declare Stuart Turton the Mad Hatter of crime. Seven Deaths is unique, energising and clever. So original, a brilliant read . I tore through it.” - Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me
“Darkly comic, mind-blowingly twisty, and with a cast of fantastically odd characters, this is a locked room mystery like no other.” - Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes
“An original and high concept murder mystery, this is welcome rescue in a sea of psychological thrillers.” - Stylist (UK)
“Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day in the tightly plotted The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.” - Good Housekeeping, UK
“This novel is so ingenious and original that it’s difficult to believe it’s Turton’s debut. The writing is completely immersive. . . . Turton masterfully creates a natural flow while jumping through different characters on different days. There are certainly echoes of Agatha Christie here, but it’s Christie ramped up several notches. . . Stuart Turton is an author to remember.” - Booklist
“A huge, crumbling mansion, a masquerade ball, exploding fireworks, a devastating murder, and Stuart Turton has set the scene for this intricate mystery … Ingenious.” - Psychologies
“Completely absorbing and flummoxing and in the end you just have to surrender to its dazzling pyrotechnics. It’s worth it for the sheer brio of the storytelling.” - Val McDermid, Mail on Sunday
“This book blew my mind. It is utterly original and unique. I couldn’t get it out of my head for days afterwards.” - Sophie Hannah
“Dazzling . Bracingly original, fiendishly clever . Quite unlike anything I’ve ever read, and altogether triumphant. I wish I’d written it.” - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
“Complex, fascinating and bewildering. . . . An astonishingly polished debut.” - The Times (London)
“The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a mind-bending mash-up of Agatha Christie, Quantum Leap and Groundhog Day. If it isn’t made into a film in the very near future, I’ll eat my deerstalker.” - Sunday Express (London)
