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Books by Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller for three weeks, it has been translated into over thirty languages and has also been a bestseller in Italy, Russia and Poland. Stuart lives near London with his wife and daughter.
“Stuart Turton’s creative takes on the murder mystery form are always delightful. The Last Murder At The End Of The World is set in a kind of post-apocalyptic utopia, in which a small community ekes out a harmonious existence on an island surrounded by poisonous fog. But when a scientist is found brutally murdered, they have only 92 hours to solve the crime before the security system will suffocate them all.” Read more...
Popular Fiction Highlights of Spring 2024
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
“I’m not sure: is this subverting the genre? Distilling the genre? It’s hard to say, but it certainly does something quite strange with the genre. For those who haven’t read it, it’s essentially a Poirot-esque murder mystery, but the main character keeps dying and being reborn in the bodies of the other suspects. He has to solve the mystery in order to break the strange time loop in which he finds himself. It’s imaginative, it plays with the genre and does something new, and it’s been very successful all around the world.” Read more...
The Best Country House Mystery Books
Gareth Rubin, Journalist
Interviews with Stuart Turton
The Best Murder Mystery Books, recommended by Stuart Turton
The best murder mysteries set up their stories like a game between the reader and the writer, says Stuart Turton, bestselling author and lifelong mystery fan. Here he highlights five of his favourites, in which detectives make miraculous deductions, or doggedly chase clues until they meet with satisfying solutions.
Interviews where books by Stuart Turton were recommended
The Best Country House Mystery Books, recommended by Gareth Rubin
The appeal of the country house mystery book is as much about the society you’ll encounter as the setting itself, says Gareth Rubin—author of a festive, choose-you-own-adventure-style murder mystery. Here, he recommends five of the best examples, from a clever time-slip whodunnit to Agatha Christie’s most brutal novel.
Popular Fiction Highlights of Spring 2024, selected by Cal Flyn
Popular fiction is popular for a reason: confounding mysteries, devastating love stories, and spectacular visions of speculative worlds offer us an escape hatch from everyday life. Here we offer a handy Five Books round-up of superior genre novels of spring 2024 including unmissable new titles from firm fan favourites. See all our best novels of 2024 recommendations
