Stuart Turton’s novel is a “puzzling and yet completely natural mix of ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Groundhog Day’, Agatha Christie and series like ‘Quantum Leap’” (Sunday Express). “This book drove me mad,” writes acclaimed Sophie Hannah—and the author of “The Woman in the Window,” A. J. Finn, echoes her: “Refreshingly original, inhumanly clever… Too bad it wasn’t me who wrote it.”
So, at a masked ball at Blackheath House, the Hardcastle family estate, a murder will occur: at the height of the celebration, under the accompaniment of a majestic salute, Evelina—beautiful, the only daughter and heir of the Hardcastles—will die. But she dies more than once: until Aiden Sloane, one of the invited guests, solves the riddle of her murder, this day will repeat again and again, each time ending in the same fatal pistol shot. The only way to break this vicious circle is to identify the murderer. But every time—after each failed attempt—Aiden wakes up in someone else’s body… and every time it’s different…