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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
At a decaying country estate, a guest wakes with no memory—and a single directive: solve a murder that keeps repeating, each day lived through a different set of eyes. Time loops, shifting identities, and tangled motives collide. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a dazzling, twist-packed puzzle that reinvents the classic whodunit.
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... a looping timeline where memory resets drive a new angle on the same mystery?
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North
If you loved how Aiden Bishop relives the same day at Blackheath—reset by the Plague Doctor yet carrying new knowledge into each fresh attempt—then you’ll click with The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Harry keeps his memories every time his life restarts, turning each loop into a sharper investigation of a looming catastrophe. Like piecing together Evelyn’s murder across overlapping timelines and hosts, Harry’s accumulated clues transform déjà vu into a propulsive, brainy hunt.
... an intricately clued, country-house-style whodunit that rewards close reading?
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
You unraveled The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by tracking alibis, invitations, and secret grudges at Blackheath. Magpie Murders doubles down on that puzzle-box pleasure. Editor Susan Ryeland deciphers a manuscript whose classic village murder hides real-world answers, much like how every timetable and whispered alliance around Evelyn’s supposed suicide turns out to matter. It’s fair-play sleuthing with delicious layers—and every detail is a potential key.
... a trapped setting where the hero’s perceptions can’t be trusted?
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Aiden’s amnesia and body-hopping make Blackheath a funhouse of doubt—who can you trust when your own mind won’t cooperate? Shutter Island delivers that same unnerving thrill. As U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels prowls Ashecliffe’s isolated institution, reality warps and every revelation forces a rethink—just as the Footman’s pursuit and the Plague Doctor’s rules keep twisting your grasp on what really happened to Evelyn.
... audacious, fair-play twists that reframe everything you’ve read?
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
If the late-game reveals at Blackheath—where hidden motives and staged moments around Evelyn’s death snap into a new pattern—left you grinning, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is essential. Christie crafts a country-house mystery where the final turn is both shocking and scrupulously clued, inviting the same retrospective gasp you felt when the rules of the loop and certain characters’ secrets clicked into place.
... a closed-circle ensemble of vivid suspects gathered on a remote estate?
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Blackheath’s house-party of schemers, old debts, and intersecting alibis—plus a killer stalking the grounds like the Footman—makes the setting a character. The Guest List mirrors that energy: on a storm-lashed island wedding, shifting first-person accounts expose simmering resentments until a body drops. If you loved assembling the social puzzle around Evelyn, these sharply drawn voices will keep you sleuthing till the last page.
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