The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Stuart Turton (Author), Jot Davies (Narrator), Audible Studios for Bloomsbury (Publisher)

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018

A brilliantly original high-concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Inception by way of Agatha Christie.

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder, and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath....

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Listening Length	16 hours and 41 minutes
Author	Stuart Turton
Narrator	Jot Davies
Audible.in Release Date	08 February 2018
Publisher	Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B079LVWBJV
Best Sellers Rank	#1,004 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #2 in Historical Mysteries #2 in Mystery Action Fiction #196 in Science Fiction (Books)

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Voracious Reader

TLDR

Reviewed in India on 8 November 2018

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I very rarely leave a book unfinished but I got depressed at the thought of ploughing on with this one. So obviously clever, so complex, ultimately so boring. Too many twists, too many puzzles, too much like children acting in a play. The “soul” of one person (I think) gets reincarnated in a new body every day for 8 days. They won’t achieve “nirvana” unless they solve the mystery of Evelyn Hardcastle’s death. And there isn’t just one cycle of rebirth, there are apparently many simultaneous cycles, involving poor souls who just couldn’t solve the murder, and have to keep getting reborn until they do. I had to keep turning back - “who he, now?”

I wanted to know why Evelyn H had to die and who killed her, and then...I just didn’t.

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Shivani

A mind bending murder mystery .

Reviewed in India on 30 May 2019

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One of my favourite boardgames as a child was ‘cluedo’ where the players have to figure out who killed ‘Mr.Black’ with the backdrop being Tudor Mansion . Replace both with Evelyn Hardcastle and Blackheath estate respectively and you get an ingeniously constructed literary derivative of the game
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Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered everyday in Blackheath at a party thrown in her honour And everyday , Aiden Bishop will be too late to save her . At the break of each new dawn , Aiden finds himself in the body of a different guest or ‘hosts’ as the fateful day resets itself all over again . He only gets 8 such hosts , meaning he only has 8 chances to reveal the identity of Evelyn’s murderer, else he is doomed to repeat the loop once again and never escape Blackheath
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I had high hopes for this book and to say that it exceeded expectations would be an understatement . It is a labyrinth of layers with numerous perspectives , multiple time lapses and meticulously calculated , well placed twists on every page . Even though Aiden Bishop’s character takes on different hosts and their traits , we never truly lose sight of his true self . Aside from being a mind bending murder mystery , ‘The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle’ is a tale of forgiveness and redemption at it’s core . A must read indeed !

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TheSafetyTest

Thrilling.. gripping..unputdownable

Reviewed in India on 14 February 2019

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Heard the audiobook first and then had to read the book myself to get the full joy of reading this book... You will be forced to read this twice... Excellent concept and I love how the timeline is laid out...

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SUNDEEP D

A gem...

Reviewed in India on 28 October 2018

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It was finest novels I have read. A genere breaker. Murder mystery+ fantasy. It's brutally original. High suspense till the very end. A must read for mystery lovers..

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Arunima

The ending will blow your mind!

Reviewed in India on 19 May 2019

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This book will give you details like none other and the mental image will come easily to the reader. Though the book requires patience especially since you are constantly rooting for the characters to finally be rid of their mysteries (and miseries) but they keep failing. But the ending is worth it and the way the picture is completed in the end.. oh it’s a sweet sweet reward!

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A reader

Slow buildup to a sharp end

Reviewed in India on 15 July 2019

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It's confusing at first, you have to pay close attention to understand what is happening. In the third act it saga a bit, but still the mystery of who killed Thomas Hardcastle hits you hard. I stayed up till 5 to finish it. Otherwise, I thought I might have forgotten some of the plot.

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Shaizia Jifri Manekshaw

Like Agatha Christie... But not

Reviewed in India on 4 May 2019

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This book definitely keeps you asking. The tie up of the time travel and explanation for why things are happening is very well thought out. You can see the author's thoughts and research behind the very solid writing.

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Angshuman Chatterjee

Mindbender

Reviewed in India on 31 January 2019

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An absolute cracker of a novel. With some aspects of time travel involved, TSDEH remains at heart a baffling country house murder mystery. This is one plot that Agatha Christie would have been proud of.

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S. P. Maillou

What was that all about?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2018

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Couldn’t wait to finish this book so that I could bin it. It’s about 60 chapters too long. The premise is good but it tries to be too clever by over complicating the the plot. Half the time I couldn’t follow what was going on and most of the time I couldn’t engage enough with the two dimensional characters to care. So I must have missed many of the well documented twists. Maybe I’m just stupid.

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Georgiana89

Metaphysical murder mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2018

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I honestly cannot recommend this book enough. I read a lot, across a variety of genres, and this is one of the best reads I've had in a while. I'm a big fan of novels that either combine various genres or blur the lines between literary and commercial novels, and this does both of these things really effectively. It's simultaneously a page-turner that leaves you desperate to understand the central mystery, a mind-meltingly well-constructed narrative that plays with time and character in all sorts of clever ways, and a well-written and thoughtful story about vengeance, family, forgiveness and most interesting, ideas of self.
At first, the set-up seems to be like something out of Agatha Christie - a country house party full of intriguing and unpleasant guests, buried secrets and mysteries, and, inevitably, a murder. But all of this set up is made more interesting by the fact the narrator has seen something traumatic in the woods and stumbled back into the party with no memories and no sense of his past or personality. Things really get interesting though when he wakes up the next day, only to find that a)he's in a different body, and b)he's actually reliving the same day again. And then the same thing happens, over and over. The result is a double mystery - the traditional one of who killed the murder victim and why, and the much tricksier one of who the narrator really is and why he's stuck in this time loop and constantly jumping between bodies. It's hard to say much more about the plot without spoiling one or both aspects of this, but it certainly keeps you guessing.
The time loop stuff is exceptionally well done, with events that happen on one version of the day affecting things that happen on other versions, and the same scene looking very different from the perspective of one version of the main character compared to another. But while that was definitely my favourite aspect of the book, all the cleverness never gets in the way of a good story.
Highly recommend, whether you're a fan of murder mysteries who'd like to try something different, a fan of novels that play tricks with time, and above all, if you like books by David Mitchell or early Jonathan Coe than combine exciting stories with brilliant writing and bizarre structures.

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RuthEneurys

Too confusing - not in a good way...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2018

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It was billed as as appealing to anyone who likes Agatha Christie books. Don’t even be tempted. Agatha Christie it isn’t. The ‘characters’ all seem the same and it’s totally confusing, but not in a good way.

Too many plot twists and changing characters and I found it impossible to follow what it going on. It’s like the writer knows what’s happening, but it’s all in his head. E.g. the Plague Doctor appears every so often to kind of taunt our ‘hero’ (who changes his host person, therefore his personality, every 24 hours) so you think you’ve got at least 1 constant..then it would seem that there are many plague doctor costumes in the attic, so even this character could be anyone. And there are dozens and dozens of characters and new ones appearing all the time....

I think it’s one of the worst books I’ve ever read...far too long...I eventually gave up at page 430 and skipped to the end...but even then I could make no sense of it.

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Helen Williams

Oh dear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2019

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I rarely write reviews but simply had to review this book. Sorry, but I do not understand the positive reviews. This book is clumsily written and the conceit is obvious. It is a little like a child's essay: "I woke up and it was all a dream". I read the whole book because I could not understand how others had rated it so positively, so I read on to check to see if something revolutionary happens or there was a huge twist, but no. If this is you and you are on the verge of giving up in the first 20 pages, trust me, find other things to do with your time.

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Average Reader

Buy it now

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2018

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I read this book a while ago, not long after it was first published and became a sensation but so far I’ve found it incredibly hard to write a review about it. What on Earth can you say about such a book?

Recently though I had a bit of an epiphany regarding my reviews and decided that less is often more. There are some books that may need longer reviews but there are those such as this one where a few words are enough. So, if anyone wants to know what it’s about – read the blurb above.

Meanwhile, here are my thoughts on reading The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle

I was flabbergasted. The book is brilliant. It blew my mind. loved it.

Buy it now.

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