Eight Detectives

THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES ARE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . 'TODAY's GREATEST EXPONENT of PLAYFUL DETECTIVE FICTION' GUARDIAN'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SUNDAY TIMES'When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over' A. J. FINN'An elegantly structured, intellectually challenging and completely unique thriller that grips like a vice' SOPHIE HANNAH_______All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, hiding their secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared. Julia Hart has finally tracked him down. She wants to know what happened to him. But she's about to discover that a good mystery can be murder to solve . . . _______'One of the most creative detective novels of the year . . . If not of all time' Samantha Downing'Intelligent and inventive . . . It's the most fun I've had in ages' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'so, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!' Sarah Pinborough**Winner of the Capital Crimes Reader Award for Debut Book of the Year**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GLASS BELL AWARD and THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL