"Pop your favorite Agatha Christie whodunnit into a blender with a scoop of Downton Abbey, a dash of Quantum Leap, and a liberal sprinkling of Groundhog Day and you'll get this unique murder mystery." —Harper's Bazaar THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER! The 71⁄2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem. Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked-room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense. International bestselling author Stuart Turton delivers inventive twists in a thriller of such unexpected creativity it will leave readers guessing until the very last page. ALSO BY STUART TURTON: The Devil and the Dark Water The Last Murder at the End of the World

Boy was this a contentious NUBClub. To begin with, everyone agreed that the end of the book was stupid. There was an interesting Quantum Leap style premise, but the author blows it at the end with faulty explanations and terrible choices. Why didn't we have ANY track laying about who the protagonist was, or what landed Anna in this time loop? How is it, exactly, that the plague doctors don't know the solution to murder they run and have seen thousands of times? Beyond that, we were split based on our opinion of the core writing. Defenders of the book argued that the author's exploration of the different bodies (e.g. overweight, elderly. etc.) and how that was a symbol of how mutable personality is by circumstance were profound and interesting directions. Detractors disagreed, finding the explorations of other people shallow and lazy, and missing the main point of delving into the actual justifications and mindset of the darker roles. And then there was the language. A major disagreement broke out around whether the core writing was good. Quotes were thrown -- "it's like I've been asked to dig a hole with a shovel made of sparrows," "Perhaps he's wary of being hit by the train Daniel appears to be waiting for." -- that we will leave the reader to determine the quality of, because some of us found them great and some found them nauseating. Overall, I can't say anyone loved this book, but we were left torn between finding it an interesting piece of genre fictions and thinking it was one of the worst things that NUBClub has ever read.